Accountancy and Finance with Placement

Throughout this industry-focused degree you'll engage with specific areas of finance that interest you and explore both national and international markets to gain a firm understanding of the global economy. The intellectually challenging programme will ensure you graduate with the knowledge, understanding, and problem-solving skills to pursue a career or further study within the field of accountancy and finance. Throughout the course, you'll build both general and specialist knowledge, enabling you to make informed judgement of contemporary accountancy and finance issues. You'll have access to our Bloomberg suite, which delivers real-time business and market news, data, and analysis to the world's leading industries and companies to support critical financial and strategic decision making. Use of the Bloomberg suite is embedded into the curriculum, meaning you'll be at the cutting edge of financial analysis and skills development to help further boost your employability prospects. You'll also be encouraged to put theory into practice by working on real-life business scenarios, with opportunities to co-design and project-manage a series of business events to build networking skills, meet employers, and discuss key business topics, such as diversity and inclusion, digital transformation and the future of the business landscape, and leadership. Solent's accountancy and finance degree has strong connections with industry and is accredited by a number of professional bodies. The course content is designed and reviewed in collaboration with industry experts. Our Business Advisory Board, chaired by Pete Markey, Chief Marketing Officer at Boots, is made up of senior leaders across a variety of industries who help to inform our curriculum development, student success, and business development. Solent University is a place of study for students from all over the world. Learning with students from different backgrounds, you'll explore new points of view in contemporary discussions and debates, and get a feel for the international workplace. If you’re looking to study our accountancy and finance degree but don’t have the relevant qualifications or experience, the business and law foundation year will help you develop the core skills and knowledge to progress. Find out more about the business and law foundation year. This course also offers the option of a placement year. A placement year allows you to put what you've learned in your first and second years into practice in the workplace, gaining valuable real-world work experience before you graduate. Our course and placements teams will help you find the perfect industry placement in your chosen field.

112-128 UCAS tariff pointsA minimum of two completed A-levels, a BTEC Extended Diploma at DMM or BTEC Diploma at D*D or, T-level Merit or equivalent qualification, or a combination of qualifications which comply with the minimum entry requirement of 104 UCAS points.GCSE Maths Grade C/4Direct entry into year two or three may be considered for this course.IELTS minimum - 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each individual componentTOEFL IBT - minimum 80 with a minimum of 20 in each individual component