Business Management with Finance with Placement and Foundation Year

Our BSc (Hons) Business Management with Finance degree is designed to develop the practical, future-focused skills and financial expertise needed to thrive in today’s competitive business landscape. This industry-aligned degree combines core business principles with in-depth financial knowledge, preparing you for dynamic roles across the finance sector and beyond.

This specialist finance pathway will enable you to build a strong foundation in business management while gaining targeted insights into financial strategy, markets, financial technology, investment, and corporate finance. You’ll graduate equipped to pursue roles in financial analysis, banking, accountancy, and business consultancy, or take your first steps towards professional qualifications.

You will explore financial language and theory, develop enquiry, analysis, evaluation and communication skills, and learn to offer practical, sustainable and ethical solutions to real-world problems in diverse and global business contexts.

The programme actively engages with the local community and collaborates with small and medium-sized enterprises such as Think Engine, Red Funnel Ferry, and Southern Co-Op. Through these partnerships you'll have opportunities to work on community-focused projects and initiatives, applying your skills in real-world settings. The collaboration also includes mentorship programmes, guest lectures, and joint projects, providing valuable insights and support to help you develop your skills and knowledge.

If you’re looking to study our business management with 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 to enhance your employability before you graduate. Our course and placements teams will help you find the perfect industry placement in your chosen field.

Who is this course for?
Ideally suited to students who want to develop their financial literacy and management skills, the course gives you the tools to create value for society, the economy and yourself. You may not be sure yet which industry or organisation will suit you. You may work in financial services, in local or global business, or in a smaller entrepreneurial firm or start-up. You may even start your own business.

Whatever your aspiration, you know you have the potential to be an analytical, creative, problem solver with determination. On this exciting course you’ll gain valuable and applied finance and management skills, from interpersonal skills to capital trading to data analysis.

What does this course lead to?
When you graduate, you will have a broad range of transferable skills, allowing you to pursue an exciting career in a wide range of industries as a management accountant, assistant fund manager, business adviser, project manager, financial analyst, or cost accountant and many other career pathways.

Our graduates have secured jobs within companies such as HSBC, Deloitte, JP Morgan, PwC, Credit Suisse, McKinsey & Company, Airbus, Red Bull Racing to name only a few.

Solent's Clearing fast pass* gets you ahead, with priority support and everything you need to feel confident about your next step. Secure your guaranteed offer before results day and unlock a 20% discount on Kimber and Chantry student halls, a £100 IKEA voucher, free gold gym membership for the academic year, and a £150 campus dining voucher.

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Join the career-ready revolution this summer at Solent. Every course is designed around five things: real-world learning in every module; block teaching, so you study one subject at a time, not five assignments at once; direct links with employers and careers support for life. This isn't a tweak. It's a rethink of what university should be.

Our facilities are built with your future career in mind, including Warsash Maritime School, the Solent Sports Complex, science labs, animation and 3D modelling studios and applied mechanics and composites labs.

And outside class? Southampton has it all: shopping, culture, live music, football, cricket, festivals, markets, tiny Thai cafes, ghost walks and record fairs. It's friendly, walkable, and one of the UK's most affordable student cities. With a diverse community and societies for every interest, you'll find your tribe here too.

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