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Accounting and Finance

Entry requirements


A level

B,C,C

Access to HE Diploma

M:45,P:15

Pass with 60 credits to include 45 credits achieved at grade Merit.

HND (BTEC)

P

A relevant HND will be considered for entry into year 3.

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

28

Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)

H2,H2,H3,H3

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

DMM

Accepted.

Scottish HND

Pass

A relevant HND will be considered for entry into year 3.

Scottish Higher

B,B,B,B

T Level

M

UCAS Tariff

104-108

We've calculated how many Ucas points you'll need for this course.

About this course


Course option

4years

Full-time | 2024

Subject

Accounting

Our Accounting and Finance degree has been developed to equip you with relevant industry knowledge. Many of our graduates secure employment with leading financial organisations.

This is the only Accounting and Finance degree in Scotland which has a year-long salaried work placement. Many of our students do so well in their placements that they are offered a job by their placement employer to return to the organisation after graduation.

We have established close links with professional accounting bodies and employers, which ensures our course is relevant for today’s accounting profession. You will benefit from the knowledge and expertise of our all of our professionally qualified teaching staff, many of whom qualified with a Big Four firm: Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£6,600
per year
England
£6,600
per year
EU
£6,600
per year
International
£16,990
per year
Northern Ireland
£6,600
per year
Republic of Ireland
£6,600
per year
Scotland
£1,820
per year
Wales
£6,600
per year

The Uni


Course location:

Main Site - Aberdeen

Department:

Aberdeen Business School

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What students say


We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

94%
Accounting

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Accounting

Teaching and learning

83%
Staff make the subject interesting
99%
Staff are good at explaining things
80%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
84%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

94%
Library resources
88%
IT resources
87%
Course specific equipment and facilities
96%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

95%
UK students
5%
International students
47%
Male students
53%
Female students
65%
2:1 or above
19%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

A
B
C

After graduation


The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Accounting

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£19,500
med
Average annual salary
97%
med
Employed or in further education
80%
med
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

54%
Business, research and administrative professionals
23%
Business, finance and related associate professionals
5%
Administrative occupations: finance

You don't have to be an accountant if you take this degree, but over half of graduates take a look at the rewards on offer for accountancy trainees and go into the job. Many others go into other parts of the finance industry as advisors or book-keepers, and some go into management or marketing. London is very popular for accountancy graduates going into their first job, but it's also quite common to work in Scotland, with Glasgow a perennial hotbed of Scottish accountancy recruitment. If you want to find a job in finance as an accountancy graduates, recruitment agencies were particularly important last year, so try to get in touch with one as soon as you can to improve your chances.

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Accounting

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£21k

£21k

£27k

£27k

£29k

£29k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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While there are lots of factors at play when it comes to your future earnings, use this as a rough timeline of what graduates in this subject area were earning on average one, three and five years later. Can you see a steady increase in salary, or did grads need some experience under their belt before seeing a nice bump up in their pay packet?

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