At Worcester, you’ll explore how finance works across borders, with expert lecturers and flexible modules that let you shape your degree around your career goals.
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Overview
This one-year top-up degree is designed for students who already have a foundation in business or finance and want to graduate with a specialist qualification in international finance. You’ll build on your existing knowledge and gain the advanced skills needed for careers in global banking, financial services, and international management.
With a focus on international banking, financial strategy, and intercultural business perspectives, this course will help you understand how finance operates across borders and within different cultural and regulatory environments. You’ll explore how international banks operate and how financial decisions, including how businesses manage risk and plan for future growth in the global market.
Alongside these core topics, you’ll choose from a wide range of optional modules in areas such as economics, marketing, digital business, and strategic management. This flexibility allows you to tailor your learning to your career goals, whether you're interested in financial analysis, international marketing, or emerging technologies.
Taught by experienced professionals with backgrounds in organisations like PwC, KPMG and HM Treasury, you’ll benefit from real-world insight and industry connections. You’ll also have access to career coaching, employer events, and professional body exemptions, which will help you stand out in a competitive job market.
Course content
This one-year top-up degree combines core modules that build your expertise in international finance and banking with a wide selection of optional modules. You’ll gain a solid foundation in global financial systems and intercultural business, while tailoring your learning to match your interests and career goals.
The optional modules listed below are just a sample of what’s available.
Optional modules
Careers
This course prepares you for a wide range of careers in international finance by developing the specialist knowledge and practical skills employers look for. You’ll gain strategic insight into global banking, financial planning, and risk management, while building confidence in decision-making, communication, and cross-cultural collaboration.
Through real-world projects, employer events, and bespoke support from our careers service, you’ll graduate ready to make an impact – whether you’re joining a multinational firm or launching your own business.
You’ll also benefit from professional body exemptions, the chance to learn a foreign language, and opportunities to build your network across industries.
You could start a career in:
- International banking analyst
- Financial services consultant
- Risk and compliance officer
- Global finance manager
- Investment advisor
- International business strategist
- Financial analyst
- Treasury assistant
Course highlights
Teaching and assessment
You’ll learn through a mix of interactive workshops, seminars, lectures, and hands-on projects that bring international finance to life. From group discussions to real-world case studies, your learning is designed to be practical, engaging, and relevant to your future career. Assessments range from reports and presentations to exams and consultancy projects, so you can develop a broad set of skills that employers value
Teaching and assessment contents
You are taught through a combination of interactive workshops, lectures, seminars, laboratory practical sessions, fieldwork, practical activities, etc. Interactive workshops take a variety of formats and are intended to enable the application of learning through discussion and small group activities. Seminars enable the discussion and development of understanding of topics covered in lectures, and laboratory practical sessions are focused on developing subject specific skills and applied individual and group project work.
In addition, meetings (both individual and group) with personal academic tutors are scheduled throughout the academic year.
Entry requirements
Students must have successfully completed the first two years of a degree, or have obtained an HND or Foundation degree in either International Finance or Finance plus experience of studying or working in an international environment.
Any questions?
If you have any questions about entry requirements, please call our Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email admissions@worc.ac.uk.
Fees
Fees contents
UK and EU students
In 2026/27 the standard fee for full-time home and EU undergraduate students on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees is £9,535 per year (subject to changes in the government tuition fee cap).
Tuition fees are reviewed annually and may increase each year for both new and continuing students.
For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.
International students
In 2026/27 the standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees is £17,200 per year.
Tuition fees are reviewed annually and may increase each year for both new and continuing students.
For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.
How to apply
How to apply contents
Applying through UCAS
UCAS is the central organisation through which applications are processed for full-time undergraduate courses in the UK.
Read our how to apply pages for more information on the application process, or if you’d like to apply for part-time study.
Contact
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