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BSc (Hons) Management (Accounting and Finance) with Industrial/Professional Experience

Gain the skills required to become a dynamic manager and focus on your chosen specialism from second year onwards.

Study core and specialist areas of business and management according to your personal or academic interests or career ambitions. Specialise in accounting and finance whilst still benefitting from a huge amount of choice across this flexible course, which includes a work placement in your penultimate year of study.

Examine how organisations finance their activities, reporting and accountability, management accounting and business law.

Course statistics

92%

of our Management placement students achieved a 1st or 2.1 degree (2022 graduates)

93%

of students in employment or further study within 15 months (Discover Uni)

£15,600

is the current average placement salary, with some earning up to £45,000 (2023-24)

1st

Most targeted by leading graduate employers (source: High Fliers Report 2023)

World University Rankings

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6th in the UK and 22nd in the world for Accounting and Finance (QS World University Rankings 2024)

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7th in the UK and 39th in the world for Business & Management Studies (QS World University Rankings 2024)

BSc Management (Accounting & Finance) with Industrial/Professional Experience / Careers

Year of entry: 2024

Career opportunities

The University has its own dedicated  Careers Service  that you would have full access to as a student and for two years after you graduate. At Manchester you will have access to a number of  opportunities to help boost your employability .

What jobs do our Management graduates go into?   Examples of jobs recent graduates have gone onto include: audit graduate, HR graduate analyst, internet consultant and management trainee.

Who employs them?   A wide range of companies including: Balfour Beatty, Deutsche Bank, KPMG, Microsoft and Tesco.

What about further study?   Graduates have gone onto further study in business, economics, enterprise and branding at institutions across the UK and internationally, including London Business School, the University of Jiao Tong and the University of Lausanne.

All examples are taken from the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey.

Accrediting organisations

Individual students have been able to obtain part exemption from some examinations from accounting organisations in the UK and Ireland, depending on the course units chosen in the second and third years. It may be possible to obtain exemption from statistics, economics and accounting, but each institute has its own regulations, which are subject to change. It is best to contact the accounting institute direct for details of its exemption policy.
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