Finance and French University of Aberdeen

Overview

At a Glance

In Finance, you will explore financial management, corporate and personal finance, financial institutions, derivatives and the stock market. You will analyse and evaluate financial problems and gain the practical skills to understand and use information from financial newspapers and documents. Your knowledge will grow in the dynamic, international environment of our Business School of over 40 nationalities, inspired by staff who are leaders in business practice and theory, in small classes with real-life scenarios. You will benefit from the input of employers and the support of dedicated careers advisers.

You will also benefit from professional training facilities, such as our Bloomberg finance lab, used by major financial services companies across the world and integrating real activity in financial markets directly into students’ courses.

In French, you will benefit from our outstanding reputation, the highest possible rating in the last national Teaching Quality Assessment and many opportunities to develop your language skills informally as well as through classes. You will also become familiar with French culture, history and contemporary life.

As an integral part of your 4-year programme, you will spend half of year three developing your language skills as a teaching assistant or visiting student in a French-speaking country.

With the Finance and French programme of the University of Aberdeen you will have many advantages to offer employers operating in multinational companies in Europe and also the European Commission. You will also have special opportunities in all sectors in French-speaking countries in Africa, which have fast-developing economies and growing energy industries.