Economics and Finance with Foundation with Placement

Course overview
Launch your career in global finance with Solent University’s BSc (Hons) Economics and Finance degree. This future-focused course equips you with the analytical, digital, and problem-solving skills employers demand in today’s fast-changing economy.

You’ll explore core economic theory and financial principles, while mastering data analytics, financial modelling, and digital finance technologies. Our course content blends theory with practical application, preparing you to tackle real-world challenges in banking, investment, policy, and financial technology (fintech).

Learn to make informed decisions on key issues such as sustainable growth, ethical investment and climate-related financial risk, topics shaping the future of global markets. With a wide range of optional modules, you can tailor your degree to your interests through pathways aligned with professional accreditation and emerging fields like sustainable finance and digital innovation.

Graduate ready for success in banking, investment and economic policy with a degree designed for the future of finance.

If you’re looking to study our economics 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.

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 10% 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.

*T&Cs apply. Full details on our website.

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.

Solent's 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 too.

Ready to secure your place? Get in touch now.