Finance and Technology (with a professional placement year) BSc (Hons) at University of Sussex

Gain the financial technology (FinTech) skills essential for a career in tomorrow’s financial institutions. The FinTech industry will create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the UK alone and is already worth £7-billion to the UK economy. With developments in computing continuing to accelerate, understanding their applications to financial markets will make you highly employable in a variety of industries.

The BSc offers you the opportunity to gain experience at the cutting edge between finance and computer science. You’ll develop quantitative and analytical skills as well as your coding and programming capabilities. You have access to our Bloomberg Financial Markets Lab, located in the Business School, and to Thomson Reuters service platforms. This allows you to take part in real-time financial and trading simulation, supervised by academic and industry experts. 

This joint degree prepares you for employment in the exciting and growing FinTech industry as well as in traditional financial services and IT. With this course, you have the opportunity to apply for a year in industry where you can put your knowledge into practice. We have a wide range of well-established partnerships including local, London-based and international companies.

Your future career

This course prepares you for roles in the exciting and growing industry known as Financial Technology (FinTech), where there are opportunities in banks, consultancies, investment companies, and asset management companies, stock brokerage firms and peer-to-peer lending companies.

This course will also enable you to work in traditional finance and software engineering industries.

At the University of Sussex Business School you benefit from extensive career support and business connections including mentoring by employers, networking and guest lectures. Outside the classroom you can get careers advice and develop your key skills further by joining our FinTech and Banking Society, and the Sussex Trading Society where you can attend events including:

• networking events (such as the FinTech Festival and FinTech Talents)
• panel discussions from industry experts
• talks from guest speakers and events with FinTech companies
• opportunities to network with Sussex alumni who are working in the finance and FinTech world.

The Sussex campus is just one hour away from London, enabling you to take advantage of our strong links with the financial hub in the City of London.

Graduate destinations

This course will enable you to secure jobs including:

• FinTech Analyst
• Business Data Analyst
• Technology Risk Manager
• Software Developer
• Fintech-Banking Account Manager
• Blockchain Developer.