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Economics and finance

Our degrees in economics and finance open up a wide range of career paths. Many graduates go on to find employment in the financial sector, but our courses also provide excellent preparation for a career in the public sector or international development institutions.

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Undergraduate finance and economics courses

At undergraduate level we offer:

Work placement opportunities

We encourage all of our undergraduate students to take a placement year between the second and final year. It allows you to apply your accumulated skills in paid employment and gain valuable hands-on experience. It also helps you to build industry contacts that will be invaluable when you graduate.

Placement companies for our economics and finance students include: American Express, AXA Investment Managers, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Dow Jones, Ernst & Young, Financial Services Authority, FTSE Group, HM Revenue and Customs, Goldman Sachs International, KPMG, Lloyds Banking Group, LMDB Accountants, PricewaterhouseCoopers and The Bank of England.

More about work placements

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Postgraduate finance and economics courses

You will be taught by experienced professionals who combine industry know-how with academic rigour. Our members of staff are active in consultancy and maintain excellent professional contacts. This ensures that the course is continually updated to meet the changing nature of the financial markets.

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Specialised facilities

Brighton is one of only a handful of universities in the UK to have a trading room which simulates a real trading environment. Streaming up-to-the-minute data from Reuters, the trading room uses state of the art commercial software to provide an exciting learning environment.

It provides a hands-on opportunity for students to react instantly to live news feeds and gain the skills required to work productively in the financial services industry.

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Specialist skills

Specialist skills you can gain from our economics and finance degrees include:

  • knowledge of commerce and the financial markets
  • an understanding of the complex financial decisions in the context of an ever-changing environment
  • key skills in gathering, analysing and presenting information
  • an understanding of the impact of globalisation and advance in technology on the financial markets
  • key skills in numeracy, problem solving, self-organisation, time management, working with others, IT and communication
  • crucial skills in the interpretation of information and detailed reports.

 

Students in the trading room

Real-time trading

Our real-time trading room is one of only a handful of such facilities in the UK. It gives our students experience of working in the pressured environment of a real trading room.

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Our courses

Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Managing Economic Transition Network seminar

The Economic and Social Transition Research Group

This group aims to provide a vibrant infrastructure for research in the area of social and economic transition. 

What our students say

“My work placement is with ITV and I am enjoying being out in the real world – in general – seeing what work really entails. With regards to specific aspects of my placement, I am relishing and enjoying learning something new every day and being given the responsibility and independence to be in charge of my own workloads (e.g. reports) and working within a great team as part of a large organisation."

Matthew Paryag
Economics and Finance