Business with Financial Services (Top-Up)

Why Business with Financial Services (Top-up)?
Are you looking for a career in business or the financial services sector? Alternatively, are you already familiar with the business and finance basics but want to build on your understanding and develop your skills and knowledge to degree level? This one-year top-up course is your opportunity to gain specialised theoretical knowledge and practical skills in business, management and financial services.

This top-up degree course is designed to help you build a greater understanding of central banking, financial markets and regulatory practice. You will explore the theory and policy in the financial services sector.

How will you learn?
You will learn through practical application and delivered lectures, workshops, seminars and group work sessions.

You’ll have the opportunity to gain hand-on practical experience of business and finance activities. For example, you will explore the stock exchange and try your hand at investing through our simulation trading tool ‘The Portfolio Game.’

What subjects will you cover?
You’ll explore subjects such as Investment and Portfolio Management, Monetary and Financial Framework, Business Responsibility, and Strategy.

For a business to be successful, all the different functions need to operate effectively in conjunction with each other. By studying strategy you'll develop the skills and knowledge to be a business leader of the future. Through your specialist study relating to the financial services, you'll understand how the financial markets operate. In addition to your core modules, you'll be able to select optional modules to gain a deeper insight into subjects that relate to your specialist personal or professional interests.

Professional links and accreditations
Huddersfield Business School is an accredited member of AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Less than 6% of business schools worldwide have obtained this prestigious accreditation.

AACSB-accredited schools have successfully undergone a rigorous review process conducted by their peers in the business education community, ensuring that they have the resources, credentials, and commitment needed to provide students with a first-rate, future-focused business education. As a result, AACSB-accredited schools produce graduates who are highly skilled and more desirable to employers than other non-accredited schools.

Take charge of your future through Clearing and find your place at the University of Huddersfield.

As a student here, you’ll benefit from inspirational teaching and access to innovative facilities and high-quality teaching and learning spaces, across two close-knit campuses, located right in the heart of Huddersfield town.

The University of Huddersfield focuses on preparing you for real-world experiences in your field, with simulated workspaces such as TV and radio studios, a trading room, and mock law court and hospital facilities.

As an undergraduate student, you’ll have the opportunity to undertake professional work-related experience whilst studying at Huddersfield. Students have gained invaluable experience both in the UK and internationally, working for brands such as Honda, BT, Siemens and PwC, to name but a few. Huddersfield also offer the Global Professional Award alongside your degree so you can gain valuable skills and attributes that employers are looking for.

Located in the foothills of the Pennines and surrounded by beautiful countryside, Huddersfield is a beautiful, student-friendly town with plenty for you to explore and it enjoys a low cost of living, meaning you'll have more to do more!

Get your application ready for an award-winning university with a thriving and welcoming student community.