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BSc Financial Economics

University of St Andrews

Institution
University of St Andrews
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Financial Economics
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
L161
Typical offer
A-level AAA

Entry requirements

A level: AAA IB: 38 (HL 6,6,6)

About this course

BSc (Honours) in Financial Economics, an economics and business management degree centred on analytical and decision-making methods. Core topics include Statistics, Mathematical Modelling, and Financial Analysis. Students engage with specialist topics such as portfolio management, asset pricing, and corporate finance over the course of study. The first year covers the foundations through Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. The second year builds further competence through Intermediate Macroeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Mathematics for Economists, and Statistics for Economists. Additional study incorporates compulsory and optional modules such as Econometrics, Financial Economics: Asset Pricing, Financial Economics: Corporate Finance, and Financial Economics: Portfolio Management.

Modules

  • Econometrics : introduces the application of statistics to study economic data
  • Financial Economics: Asset Pricing : provides a critical understanding of essential components of modern finance theory and a rigorous grounding in analytical economic models about the determination of risks and returns in financial markets
  • Financial Economics: Corporate Finance : investigates the problem of how a collection of corporate liabilities is affected in value by corporate actions
  • Financial Economics: Portfolio Management : develops knowledge and understanding of key issues in asset allocation and portfolio composition and management at an intermediate level
  • Behavioural Economics: Individual Decisions and Welfare
  • Development and Finance
  • Economic Fluctuations
  • Economics of the Environment
  • European Macroeconomics
  • Game Theory
  • Health Economics
  • Incentives, Contracts and Markets
  • Innovation Economics
  • International Trade
  • Mathematical Economics
  • Monetary and Financial History
  • Practical Financial Modelling
  • Macroeconomics
  • Microeconomics
  • Intermediate Macroeconomics
  • Intermediate Microeconomics
  • Mathematics for Economists
  • Statistics for Economists