Finance with Innovation
Entry requirements
A level
Standard offer: AAA including Mathematics, or A*AB including A in Mathematics. Contextual offer: ABB including Mathematics. Find out if you are eligible for a contextual offer: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/entry-requirements-qualifications/contextual-offers/
Access to HE Diploma
Access to HE Diploma in Engineering, Science, or Computing (or similar titles). The 45 graded Level 3 credits must include: at least 30 credits at Distinction and 15 at Merit or above; and at least 15 credits from Mathematics units, of which at least 12 (including algebra, calculus and trigonometry) must be at Distinction. Or Access to HE Diploma in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Psychology, Law or History (or similar titles), with the 45 graded Level 3 credits including at least 30 credits at Distinction and 15 at Merit or above, plus A in A-level Mathematics. Mature students can contact [email protected] to check the suitability of their Access course.
Requirements for principal subjects are as for A-level, where D1/D2 is A*, D3 is A, M1/M2 is B, and M3 is C.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Standard offer: 36 points overall with 18 at Higher Level, including Mathematics with either 6 at Higher Level (either Analysis and Approaches or Applications and Interpretations) or 7 at Standard Level (Analysis and Approaches). Contextual offer: 32 points overall with 16 at Higher Level, including Mathematics with either 5 at Higher Level (either Analysis and Approaches or Applications and Interpretations) or 7 at Standard Level (Analysis and Approaches). Find out if you are eligible for a contextual offer: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/entry-requirements-qualifications/contextual-offers/
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
DDD in any Applied General BTEC National Level 3 Extended Diploma and A in mathematics at A-level (or equivalent). Find out more about our BTEC entry requirements: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/entry-requirements-qualifications/uk-qualifications/btec-qualifications-/
Scottish Advanced Higher
Advanced Higher: AA including Mathematics
Scottish Higher
Standard Higher: AAAAB
Requirements are as for A-levels, where you can substitute a non-subject specific grade for the Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate at that grade.
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About this course
The innovators of the 21st century will think across arts, science, engineering, humanities and enterprise to deliver innovative products, services and ways of living. They will be team players with a breadth of skills and qualities that enable them to work across specialisms and cultures.
This course combines in-depth subject specialism in finance with interdisciplinary breadth, creative teamwork and entrepreneurial skills. In conjunction with your financial studies, you will apply your subject knowledge by translating ideas into innovative solutions which may include plans for digital and creative enterprises, both social and commercial.
You will come together with students from other innovation disciplines, such as geography, film and television and history. Each subject contributes a different perspective on a challenge as you identify needs and develop ideas. By drawing on your unique ideas and views on the world, you will learn from your subject and other students to develop innovative solutions together.
By the time you graduate you will have a portfolio of work ranging from live client projects to planning your own entrepreneurial venture. You will have learned how to evaluate the potential of your product or service and how to finance it, and you will have a network of peers and advisers who have worked with you along the way.
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University of Bristol
School of Economics, Finance and Management
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Top job areas of graduates
Over 2,000 students graduated with a degree in finance in 2015, and a sign of the strength of the finance industry, numbers are on the up. Over half of finance graduates go into the finance industry, with accountancy and financial advice roles particularly popular. It's also quite common for finance graduates to go into jobs which require you to take more training and gain professional qualifications — finance graduates who take further study are more likely to be studying accountancy than finance. About a third of graduates start their careers in London - but Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham are other popular locations for finance graduates to work.
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£53k
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