Finance BSc Welcome Pack

Welcome to BSc Finance 2025.

BSc Finance at UON provides you with the essential and advanced financial, quantitative and analytical skills necessary for professional careers in banking, asset management and financial research. You will examine core concepts in economics, financial analysis, security valuation, portfolio theory and risk management with a strong focus on decision-making in line with regulatory, ethical and sustainability standards. Throughout this programme, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters terminals, Financial Times, and MarketLine will be used to enhance your learning experience by implementing theories into practice with real-world scenarios.

This programme is a member of the Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) Affiliation Programme and aligned to key investment and risk management professional qualifications. Our curriculum covers more than 70% of the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge (CBOK), which provides excellent preparation for you to pursue an international career in the finance industry. Throughout your study with UON, you will benefit from free access to the CFA learning resources, including industrial webinars and exam review study guides. In addition, our final year students with outstanding academic performance can be awarded the CFA Program Student Scholarships after their graduation.

In the first year, you will be allocated a personal tutor, who provides academic guidance and support throughout the course. You will complete six compulsory introductory modules, that provide an essential foundation in accounting, economics, finance, and mathematics. In the second year, you will build your knowledge on the foundation of the previous year by taking six compulsory specialist modules. At this stage, you will be introduced to a range of finance subfields, including investment, ethical and professional standards, and risk management. In the final year, you will gain in-depth knowledge by studying the more specialist areas of investment. You will take four compulsory modules and up to two designated modules. You can tailor your studies to reflect your areas of expertise and specialisms at this stage by selecting from a range of designated modules in areas such as economics, international finance, and risk management.

Your Course Leader

Dr I-Chen Lu

Senior Lecturer in Finance
i-chen.lu@northampton.ac.uk