Business with Finance

Business with finance is a degree that equips you with broad commercial knowledge while giving you particular depth in the financial principles and tools that sit at the centre of how businesses make decisions and manage resources. Finance is not simply accounting: it encompasses investment analysis, risk management, corporate financial strategy, and the functioning of financial markets, and understanding it changes how you see almost every major commercial decision. Paired with a solid grounding in business management, this combination produces a graduate who can move fluently between the operational and the financial dimensions of organisational life.

This three-year full-time programme at City St George's, University of London includes a sandwich year and a work placement, both of which provide direct professional experience in a business or financial setting before you complete your final year. With a typical tariff of 184 points, the programme is selective and attracts well-prepared students. City's location in the heart of London, adjacent to the City financial district and the wider business hub of the capital, gives it close connections with the financial services, professional services, and commercial sectors that recruit most heavily from business and finance programmes.

Those connections inform the curriculum and make the placement year particularly well supported.

You will study the principles of business strategy, marketing, operations, and human resources alongside corporate finance, financial analysis, investment management, and the quantitative methods that underpin financial decision-making. The combination develops both the commercial breadth that general business roles require and the financial depth that more specialist positions in finance, banking, and consultancy demand.

Graduates from business with finance programmes at City move into careers in investment banking, corporate finance, management consultancy, financial analysis, commercial banking, accounting, and a wide range of business management roles. The placement year often provides a direct route into employment, and the London location means graduates enter the job market with strong industry networks. Postgraduate study in finance, business, or economics is a natural option for those who want to specialise further.