Bachelor of Science - Economics and Finance (Honours) (with placement year)

This sandwich route wraps the joint Economics and Finance curriculum around a placement year in the finance industry or an economics-adjacent analytical function, extending to four years with September and January entry both recorded. The taught programme mirrors the standard joint degree — parallel economics and finance streams over a shared quantitative spine — and the placement year sits where its evidence value is highest, between methods training and final-year specialisation.

Placements for this cohort skew corporate and structured: banking operations, FP&A teams, big-company treasury and the analyst floors of consultancies, many recruiting through formal schemes with autumn deadlines and multi-stage selection — a process that itself rehearses graduate-scheme recruitment. Returning students typically anchor the final-year project in the host’s data, and host conversion into graduate programmes is an established pattern.

Application-calendar coaching is half this variant’s value: the faculty aligns its placement preparation to the banking sector’s early cycle — psychometric practice in the summer after year one, applications from September of year two — and students who follow that rhythm compete for the structured schemes rather than the leftovers. Standard £16,800 taught-year fees apply across the four-year plan.

The counselling frame: this is the batch’s most direct route toward mainstream finance careers, and the placement functions as a year-long interview for them; its opportunity cost — twelve months’ delay — is repaid in offer probability and starting position. Completion lands inside the 18-month Graduate Route regime for post-2026 applications, dependants remain excluded on taught routes, and placement pay in this sector commonly reaches £20,000–£23,000 pro rata.