Subject overview

Finance is about investing, with a focus on how to value assets and manage risk. Studying a degree in Finance will help you to understand how stock markets and financial institutions function, and how they can be used by both investors and corporations. Actuarial science looks at how organisations make financial sense of the future, assess risk and protect themselves from loss.

Our Programmes

Undergraduate

BSc Finance
BSc Actuarial Science & Risk Management
BSc Economics with Finance

Postgraduate

MSc Accounting and Finance
MSc Finance
MSc Quantitative Finance (previously Msc Computational Finance and Trading) 
MSc Risk & Investment Management
PhD Finance

Our Research 

The research in our Finance Subject Group relates to three themes:

• Financial markets and institutions over the long run.
• Not-for-profit financial institutions, particularly credit unions.
• The microstructure of financial markets.

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Why study Finance at Queen’s?

• Undergraduate students undertake a placement preparing them for employment
• Students have access to Bloomberg terminals in the Trading Room, a market leader of financial news, data and analytics
• All finance programmes are accredited or professionally recognised
• Students are invited to participate in the Queen’s University Trading and Investment Club (QUTIC) and Queen’s Student Managed Fund (QSMF)

Careers

A finance qualification opens many doors. Potential career opportunities include:

Retail banker; Accountant; Trader; Financial analyst; Portfolio manager; Researcher; Risk Manager; Financial advisor; Consultant; Company director

Graduate employers include:

Goldman Sachs; Morgan Stanley; JP Morgan; First Derivatives; Barclays; Setanta Asset Management; Pramerica; KPMG; Mercer