Entry requirements
Selected entry requirements A level: AAB. If one or more A Levels which have less than 60% theoretical content are offered as part of the three A Levels, offer may be above the standard level. Unit grade information: The University of Manchester welcomes the provision of unit grade information which, like all other available information, will inform the consideration of applications. Unit grades will not normally form part of offer conditions, except for Mathematics programmes. GCSE: Minimum grade C in English Language and Mathematics. Key Skills qualification: The University warmly welcomes applications from students studying the Key Skills qualification. However, as the opportunities to take these modules are not open to all applicants, currently this is not an essential requirement of the University. International baccalaureate: 35 points overall. 6,6,5 at Higher Level. No lower than 5 in any subject. Additional entry requirements Additional entry requirements exist for this course. You may view these by selecting from the list below.
Course description
Course description
Flexibility and choice are the key to the BA(Economic and Social Studies) programme. There are 29 different combinations covering Accounting, Business Studies, Development Studies, Finance, Economic and Social History, Economic Studies, Politics, Social Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology. You can decide which is for you as you move through the three years. When you apply you use a specific UCAS code which indicates an interest in that area but does not commit you. This degree programme specialises in Finance. It is run jointly by the School of Social Sciences in partnership with Manchester Business School. In your first year, you study accounting, finance, economics, maths/statistics, and options from other subject areas including government and sociology. In your second year, you study accounting and finance in more depth, while retaining the possibility to take other social science and language course units. In your third year, you become more specialised, choosing from a wide range of subjects, from auditing to international finance. An important part of the final year is an independent research project that brings together the knowledge and skills attained during the three year programme. The academic and professional aspects of accounting and finance are balanced appropriately and provide you with some exemptions from professional examinations.
Special features
Multidisciplinary degree taught by specialists
Internationally recognised and research led teaching in subjects
complimentary to accounting and finance
Course content for year 1
The object of the first year is to provide a broad introduction to the social sciences, enabling you to make an informed choice of areas to study in your second and final years. This means that you take a mixture of compulsory and optional courses.
Course content for year 2
In your second year you will begin to specialise in one or two areas. You continue to study various core subjects pertaining to accounting and/or finance but these will be taken in more depth.
The accounting and finance subjects available cover all the main areas and are supported by a wide range or optional accounting and finance course units in specialist topics. The approach taken to the subjects by staff is elcletic. For instance, second year course units include Foundations of Finance, intermediate Management Accounting, Financial Markets and Institutions and Introduction to Management Information Systems.
Course content for year 3
During the final year you become more specialised in the accounting and/or finance area, choosing from a wide range of relevant options in those fields. For instance, in the third year course units offered include Public Sector Accounting, Auditing, Corporate Finance and Case Studies in Information systems.
Career opportunities
Specialist areas of accounting and finance are distinctive and suitable if you are considering a career within the financial and business world. Many of our graduates have traditionally entered the accounting profession, either with a firm of accountants in practice, in industry, or in public sector organisations. However, others have secured jobs in the City as analysts, as business managers, as consultants and in other varied posts.
