Accounting and Finance (with placement year) BSc (Hons)

UK

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What will I learn?

Our BSc Accounting and Finance course is designed to prepare you for careers in diverse areas of accounting, finance and management, and to equip you to deal with the challenges of an ever-changing business world.One of our key goals is to develop the wider skills and intellectual independence our graduates will need to thrive in a long and rewarding professional career. We help you develop the technical accounting and finance skills needed to get a head start in your professional career, but we also place accounting firmly in its business context.Our Accounting and Finance degree is approved by major professional accounting bodies in the UK (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA and ICAEW) and graduates can gain exemptions from some of their examinations or credits for prior learning. However, we offer the opportunity to study a much wider range of subjects than those of the narrow professional syllabuses.We are committed to helping you stand out in a highly competitive graduate job market and the course has a first rate graduate employability record.The course develops skills valued by employers including independent learning and research, analytical skills, teamwork, presentation skills, project work, computer skills and numeracy. The wide variety of optional modules allows you to develop specialist skills and tailor your degree to suit your career aspirations.Skills for employability is a key part of the Loughborough experience and can really boost your job prospects, and this degree has a module specifically built in to help you develop your study and employability skills. There are also specific modules in entrepreneurship to help those with aspirations to start or develop their own businesses.Our BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance degree shares the same first year modules as our Finance degree. If you realise at the end of your first academic year that you prefer the finance route, you may transfer to our Finance degree.

Which department am I in?

Loughborough Business School

Study options

Full Time (4 Years)

Tuition fees
£25,500.00 (27,78,383) per year
£25500 Per year

This is a fixed fee

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution

Start date

September 2025

Venue

Main Site

Ashby Road,

Loughborough,

Leicestershire,

LE11 3TU, CENTRAL ENGLAND, England

Entry requirements

For students from United States

The majority of our offers will be at AAB (excluding General Studies, Critical Thinking, Communication and Culture and Citizenship Studies) ?No subject specific requirements?Majority A/B (7/6) grades at GCSE?Maths and English Language GCSE grade ?B? (6) or above However, we may make some offers at ABB where students exhibit a strong overall profile and fulfil the following requirements: ?Studying 3 A levels from our preferred list of subjects? Majority of As / A*s (7-9) at GCSE?Maths and English Language GCSE grade ?B? (6) or above We may ask applicants to achieve specific grades in certain subjects. While no specific A Level (or equivalent) subjects are required, we strongly prefer combinations drawn from traditional (academic) subjects to demonstrate a range of numerical, analytical and discursive abilities. These A Levels include: Ancient History, Biology, Business Studies, Classical Civilisation, Chemistry, Economics, English Language/Literature, Geography, Government and Politics, History, Languages (non-native), Law, Maths/Further Maths, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology and Statistics.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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About Loughborough University

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  • Considered the best university for sport in the world
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  • Highly ranked in the UK for graduate employability
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