Launching September 2016
Global Finance and its role in the world has never been more complex. Recent events have shown that it is more important than ever to have an understanding of the theory and intuition behind the practice of financial decision-making, risk management and the behaviour of financial markets. Although specific techniques may go out of date, the ability to think analytically and to understand the fundamentals of why something is done in a certain way will be invaluable in the rapidly developing world of finance, and will be crucial for those who wish to progress to senior roles within financial institutions. This is key to the study of finance and its related disciplines at LSE.
The Department of Finance is excited to be launching its new BSc Finance in September 2016. Finance teaching at LSE is widely regarded as being at the forefront of international teaching in the field. Our aim with this programme is to give you an understanding of finance that will be useful throughout your career. This means that, unlike professional courses, we teach both finance techniques and the intuition behind them to enable you to critically evaluate their suitability and usefulness in different contexts. We will encourage you to adopt a critical and flexible viewpoint and to analyse the subject from a variety of perspectives.