Overview

    Get ready with a foundation year and learn the foundational skills and knowledge to complete a full Honours degree. You'll be able to embark on this qualification without meeting the level 3 entry requirements, giving you the opportunity to study at degree level through this four year course. 

    Discover a future-proof career with a BSc Finance & Investment degree from Canterbury Christ Church University. Gain in-demand expertise in financial markets, investment banking, and FinTech innovations whilst building skills that top employers value.

    With access to our cutting-edge Bloomberg Trading Room, you’ll apply theory to real-world scenarios and develop confidence in financial analysis and decision-making. From understanding global markets to mastering sustainable investment strategies, this course will give you the practical experience and critical thinking you need to succeed.

    What you’ll learn

    • Develop a strong foundation in financial analysis, portfolio management, risk assessment, and sustainable investment practices
    • Get access to real-world financial data, trading simulations, and financial technologies.
    • Undertake internships, a placement year or choose to study abroad to broaden your experiences and skillset.
    • Explore FinTech innovations, digital assets, and global financial markets
    • Apply principles of ethical investing and sustainable finance to drive responsible growth.

    What's more, you'll be taught by experienced industry practitioners and researchers, giving you direct access to expertise.

    Whether you see yourself as a financial analyst, investment banker, or portfolio manager, this degree will empower you with the knowledge and confidence to thrive in a fast-paced financial world.

    This course offers an opportunity to think beyond numbers, learn markets and instruments, and make a living on a global level. The course helps clarify challenges that affect everyone in the society, including cost of living, use of FinTech, and financing sustainable development.
    Dr Mamunur RashidCourse Director

    Why study Finance & Investment at CCCU?

    Entry requirements

    Accepted qualifications

    We accept a wide range of general qualifications that attract UCAS Tariff points either on their own or in combination with others. Below are some common examples.

    Entry requirements needed to enroll on the course.
    QualificationGrades
    A LevelsDDE
    BTECMPP
    AccessPass 45 Credits
    International BaccalaureateTBC

    Module information

    Core/optional modules

    How you’ll learn

    We are committed to your development as a skilled and inquiring student, ethically engaged with the world and its future, and aim to use a variety of methods and approaches tailored to your individual needs in order to achieve this. The modules in the first semester employ a mix of lectures, tutorials, and online material provided via our virtual learning environment (VLE), as well as student-centred workshops and learning exercises. This provides you with a wide range of differentiated activities, and plenty of regular 1:1 feedback and support throughout the first Semester. Building on this, teaching in the second semester uses also includes individual supervision specifically to support your ‘Individual Project’. Study on all these modules is supported by the Communication and Academic Skills for HE module. In this way, basic skills learned and developed in semester 1 are integrated and further developed in semester 2, with appropriate individualised support and scaffolding provided throughout. At the end of this process, you should be a more independent, self-confident learner ready to embark on degree level study at Level 4.

    Our teaching team will share with you their expert knowledge, experience and research insights during stimulating lectures, seminars and practical workshops.

    Teaching is structured to allow for flexibility, and blended learning is widely used to support both teaching, learning and student support. Your actual contact hours will depend on the optional modules you select. However, typically you will have around 12 hours of structured contact time per week. This may be in lectures, where the module leader delivers key material to you in a large group or seminars where you'll discuss and develop, in smaller groups, your understanding of topics covered in lectures. You may also experience workshops, which combine lectures and seminars when the class size is smaller. You'll also be supported by your personal academic tutor.

    Between Years 2 and 3 you'll have the opportunity to gain work experience on a year-long placement with an external organisation. You’ll also have the opportunity to apply to study for a year in one of our partner institutions in North America as part of your degree.

    You can opt to undertake a final year project that will be based on a live brief from a relevant industry.

    When not attending lectures, seminars, workshops or other timetabled sessions, you'll continue learning through self-study. Typically, this involves reading journal articles and books, undertaking research in the library, working on projects, and preparing for coursework assignments/examinations, workshops and seminars.

    Your lecturers will indicate specific readings and/or activities to complete before class. We will also provide reading lists for further study. Seminars are enriched when students have completed their independent reading, allowing everyone to interact with this learning and benefiting the whole group.

    The Individual Study or Dissertation in your final year is a significant piece of independent research, where you may select a topic of special interest. You will be guided by a supervisor, but the main direction of the work will be decided by you.

    Teaching is structured to allow for flexibility. Your actual contact hours will depend on the optional modules you select. However, typically you will have about 12 hours of structured contact time per week. For every hour of contact, you'll be expected to complete three hours of independent study.

    You will be taught by academics at all stages of their careers, from postdoctoral researchers to professors, including others with extensive industry experience.

    Every member of our teaching team is committed to innovative and engaging approaches to teaching, and members hold excellent teaching qualifications (Higher Education Academy accredited) and academic qualifications (PhDs in Finance, Economics or other related disciplines).

    We are also research active, publishing our research in academic journals and books, engaging in work with academic and professional bodies.

    Your learning experience will be shaped by experienced academics with insights from industry practitioners, providing you with a strong foundation in finance and investment. Through interactive lectures, hands-on financial analysis, and real-world case studies, you will develop critical and analytical thinking skills, enhance your ability to make informed investment decisions, and build confidence in applying financial theories and tools to dynamic market environments.
    Dr Seyi AdesinaSection Director for Accounting, Economics & Finance

    How you’ll be assessed

    The course provides you with opportunities to test your understanding of the subject informally before completing the formal assessments that count towards your final mark. Each module typically contains at least one piece of practice or 'formative' assessment for which you receive feedback from your tutor. Practice assessments are developmental, and any grades you receive for them do not count towards your module mark.

    There is a formal or 'summative' assessment at the end of each module. Assessment methods include written examinations, often computer-based, and a range of coursework assessments such as essays, reports, portfolios, performance, presentations and your final year major project. The grades from formal assessments count towards your module mark.

    To progress from one level of study to the next, you must pass 120 credits. The standard pass mark for a module is 40%.

    Your future career

    Graduates can pursue a wide variety of potential future careers options in areas such as investment banking, equity trading, finance advice and management, personal and corporate finance, investment and portfolio management, and other sectors of financial services.

    This course has a strong focus on career development and emphasises transferable skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, self-awareness, leadership, analysis, and teamwork, and builds your confidence in interpersonal skills and communicating your discipline knowledge.

    The course also provides a great opportunity to pursue further study.

    With a robust foundation in principles of finance, the course is designed to equip you to meet the evolving demands of the financial sector.
    Dr Mamunur RashidCourse Director

    Fees

    Tuition Fees for 2026/27 have not yet been finalised. These course web pages will be updated with Tuition Fee information once they have been agreed.

    Industry links

    We work with industry stakeholders to further enhance our teaching, research and knowledge exchange. Some stakeholders come in as guest lecturers and we also have masterclasses by visiting professors who are chosen for their expertise in accounting, finance and economics. These established links have helped some of our students to secure work experience and placements.

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    Duration:

    4 years

    UCAS code:

    NC30

    Location(s):

    Canterbury
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