Intro

Accounting, finance and economics at Â鶹AV are taught by our School of Business and Law. AACSB accreditation is achieved by fewer than 6% of business schools worldwide.

Our foundation courses are integrated with an honours degree, enabling you to spend a year developing the knowledge and skills needed before you start your degree with us. They are a great opportunity if you do not have the required A-levels or equivalent qualification, are changing career or returning to study.

As well as gaining academic knowledge of the principles of business and law, you’ll explore the fundamentals of applied numeracy and data handling, life skills, citizenship and how to prepare yourself for studying your honours degree at Â鶹AV.

Successful completion of the foundation means that you can continue your studies with us by choosing to progress to one of our accounting, finance or economics degrees (you’ll find them listed on this page). The course team will help you to decide which degree is best for you.

Key facts

Location Â鶹AV: Moulsecoomb

UCAS code N42Y

Full-time 4 or 5 years depending on which degree you choose to progress to

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Entry criteria

Clearing 2026

Our Clearing offers are usually lower than the standard grades published on this page. And grades are not the only thing we consider. Every story is different and that’s why we’ll treat you and your application as an individual.

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Entry requirements

Entry requirements for 2026

A-levels DDD.

BTEC Extended Diploma MMP/DM.

International Baccalaureate 24 points.

UCAS tariff 72 points. Level 3 Key Skills and General Studies will count towards the tariff.

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T-level Merit in any T-level.

English language requirements
If English is not your first language, IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each element. Find out about the other English qualifications that we accept.

Studied before or got relevant experience?
If you have suitable qualifications, credits from a previous university course or relevant professional experience, these could count towards your course at Â鶹AV and you could start the course in year 2 or 3.

Transferring from another university
Thinking about transferring from another uni? Check our transferring to Â鶹AV info and give us a call.

International requirements and visas

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We can help you meet our English language or academic entry requirements.

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For degree preparation courses.

Visas and immigration advice

Applying for a student visa

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Contextual admissions

At Â鶹AV, we understand that not everyone has the same opportunities, and some may face extra challenges to meet grade requirements. If you meet our contextual admissions criteria, we’ll make you an offer of at least two grades or 16 UCAS tariff points lower than the standard for your course. Find out about contextual admissions at Â鶹AV.

With a contextual offer, you may also qualify for extra financial support through our Â鶹AV Boost cost of living package. Find out about the Â鶹AV Boost.

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Course content

What is a foundation year? 

A degree with an integrated foundation year is designed for students who do not have the entry requirements needed to start a degree with us. This could be because you don’t have the grades or subjects that we need, you are changing career or returning to study. Upon successful completion of the foundation year, you can progress to one of our BSc(Hons) courses, depending on which foundation year pathway you choose.

This means that your course will take four years instead of three (or five with a placement year). Our foundation year is a great introduction to your chosen subject area and is an opportunity to develop valuable study and self-management skills, communication, teamwork and problem-solving techniques which help build your confidence and prepare you for the rest of your course.

At the School of Business and Law we offer three integrated foundation year courses. If you successfully pass the foundation year, you can progress directly onto your choice of degree from those listed without having to reapply through UCAS. UK students will also be able to apply for student funding for their whole course – foundation year plus either a three-year degree or a four-year degree with placement year.

Our integrated foundation courses

Foundation year syllabus

You’ll complete four modules in the foundation year which will allow you to explore accounting, finance and economics concepts and theories in a business context and develop a strong understanding of the principles. You’ll gain the transferable skills that are essential for study at degree level, and explore the relationship between theory and practice and how this relates to debates and issues in business.

Learning will be through a mixture of lectures, small group teaching in workshops and seminars, private study and course work. You’ll be supported throughout by your personal tutor.

Modules

  • Applied Numeracy and Data Handling Skills

    This module will help you to make practical decisions in the business world and come up with solutions to business problems. You’ll work on your core arithmetic, algebra, statistics, mathematical modelling and probability skills, building your capability to reason with numbers and other mathematical concepts.

  • Introduction to Wellbeing and Study Success

    This module introduces you to study skills and concepts of wellbeing. Using what you learnt in the Applied Numeracy and Data Handling Skills module, you’ll take part in a practical group project on the broad theme of wellbeing and personal/academic development.

  • Academic Knowledge for Accounting, Finance and Economics

    This module equips prospective accounting, finance and economics students with the foundation skills for academic study. You’ll be introduced to the core principles of these areas and have the opportunity to apply theoretical concepts in practice. You will also explore the meaning and application of financial and economic terminology, academic writing and research skills that are essential to your academic development.

  • Developing Practical Professional Knowledge

    You'll develop law, business, accounting, finance or economics knowledge through by working on an individual project themed around responsible enterprise. You'll develop confidence in your ability to use the study skills you have learned during your foundation year, and reflect on the experience and on how it has contributed to your preparation for degree studies.

Making sure that what you learn with us is relevant, up to date and what employers are looking for is our priority, so courses are reviewed and enhanced on an ongoing basis. If you apply to us, you’ll be told about any new developments through .

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Progress to a degree

Successful completion of the foundation year means that you’ll be able to progress to one of our finance, accounting or economics-related honours degrees.

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Meet the team

Dr Md Riofad Chowd, course leader

Dr Md Rifad Chowdhury is a lecturer in human resource management and course leader for the integrated foundation year overseeing three pathways: Accounting, Finance and Economics; Business Management; and Law. He holds a PhD from the Â鶹AV, an MSc in International Business Management from Northumbria University, and a BSc in Human Resource Management from Anglia Ruskin University.

Md Rifad’s teaching expertise spans leadership and people management, talent and performance management, reflective practice, professional development and cross-cultural aspects of work and organisations. His research focuses on employee motivation, workplace wellbeing, leadership, and cross-cultural management, with particular interest in public-sector contexts in the UK and Bangladesh.

He is a Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA) and is committed to inclusive, compassionate and research-informed teaching that empowers students to link theory with professional practice and develop as ethical, globally minded professionals.

Dr Md Rifad Chowdhury

Rageshree Sinha (Shree)

Shree is a lecturer in entrepreneurship in the School of Business and Law.

Her research studies the role of absorptive capacity to enable labour efficiency as new and emerging technologies are being implemented in the market.

Apart from being an active researcher, she also worked with the project which was a £1.3m research project funded by the European Structural Investment Fund and Arts Council England. It aimed to provide technology SMEs, creative arts practitioners and cultural organisations with supported and authorised access to Gatwick Airport’s big data. For both the DRIVA and Nuffield Project she has worked as a Research Fellow for Data Science and Visualisation.

Shree has significantly contributed to the university’s RISE project, our Help to Grow course and the Inclusivity and Partnership Project.

She brings rich and valuable experience in data analytics and business intelligence skills. Shree enjoys teaching on various modules in the School of Business and Law, alongside her active research work. She’s eager to supervise students working on management perspectives of new technologies and implementation challenges.

Rageshree Sinha

Careers

AACSB accreditation

The Â鶹AV is accredited by the .  

AACSB-accredited schools lead business and management education, industry engagement and impactful research, and enable our students to collaborate with academics in other world-leading universities.

Currently fewer than 6% of business schools globally are AACSB accredited. By gaining AACSB accreditation, the university has achieved its ambition to join a group of institutions considered to be the best business schools in the world.

AACSB accredited

Career prospects 

Successful completion of the foundation year means that you can progress to one of our degree courses.

Many of our graduates go on to complete professional exams with the major accountancy bodies and, in time, to be chartered accountants. Others pursue careers as bankers, corporate treasurers, financial advisers, traders, investment analysts and stockbrokers.

Our courses also open up career options in non-financial organisations that rely on experts in accounting and finance. The skills learned on your degree can be used to move into roles such as general management, banking and insurance, where financial expertise will give you an advantage.

Graduate careers 

Recent graduates have joined companies in roles such as:

  • Client relationship manager, Union Bank of Switzerland

  • Tax accountant, Grant Thornton
  • 
Financial analyst, Experian

  • Business analyst, American Express

  • Auditing associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers

  • Payroll assistant, Swandean Hospital

  • Accounts assistant, Aegis

  • Operations manager, IVS.

 

Work-related experience 

Our dedicated Placements and Employability team provide a huge portfolio of employers offering business-related placement opportunities. The team will help you find a placement, support you throughout your placement and act as referees.

They also offer several services to improve your employability, including CV and cover letter reviews, mock assessment centres, fast-track interviews and interview practice sessions.

Careers Connect

You will also have access to our Careers Connect portal where you can book careers appointments and events, look for part and full-time jobs and find placements/internships.

Placement and recruitment events
Placement fairs are held twice a year and feature well-known companies such as Enterprise-Rent-a-Car, Nike, BMW and IBM, as well as smaller and more local businesses.

Our regular Employability Weeks offer activities designed to improve your employability, including LinkedIn workshops, sessions on working abroad, advice from the university’s volunteering service and support from the Careers team.

 

Careers advice and support 

Careers Service
Our Careers Service provides help and advice from the very start of your studies. Services include careers counselling sessions, CV checking, mock interviews and advice on setting up your own business. Find out more on our Careers Service website.

Mentoring
Momentum is our award-winning mentoring scheme. It pairs students with professionals who wish to share their experiences. You and your mentor will meet regularly to exchange ideas. The scheme helps you to develop new skills and improve your career prospects.

Students at Placement Fair

Starting your own business 

Beepurple is the university’s entrepreneurship support network. They offer free support for any student or graduate with their business ideas, freelance plan or social enterprise project.

Beepurple run events throughout the academic year, designed to equip you with skills that will improve your employability and help you grow a successful business.

By taking part in beepurple activities, you will meet like-minded people, hear how other recent graduates have set up their own businesses and gain key enterprise skills that will help you stand out from the crowd.

For more information visit beepurple.

Beepurple

Fees and costs

Course fees

UK (full-time) foundation year 5,760 GBP

International (full-time) 18,108 GBP

The £5,760 fee applies to the integrated foundation year only. For UK students the fee for each year of the rest of the course will be the undergraduate honours degree regulated fee, currently £9,535.

Students applying for this course will be eligible to apply for student funding for their whole course – foundation year plus either a three-year degree or a four-year degree with placement year.

The course fees shown here are what you will pay for the first year of your course if you start in the academic year 2026–27 and you are studying full-time (fee amount is subject to parliamentary approval). You pay fees in each year of your course. The fees you pay may increase each year.

Regulated fees

Fees for UK students on undergraduate and some postgraduate courses are set by the UK government. These are known as regulated fees. From academic year 2026–27, regulated fees will increase annually in line with forecast inflation.

Student Finance England loans for tuition fees and maintenance will also rise in line with inflation.

If you are studying part-time your fee will usually be calculated based on the number of modules that you take.

Unregulated fees

Course fees for international students taking undergraduate courses and for most postgraduate courses are not regulated by the UK government. Unregulated fees may increase each year by up to 5% or the forecast Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation (whichever is higher).

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What's included

Here you’ll find details of specific resources and services that are included in the tuition fee for our School of Business and Law students. To help you to budget for your studies, there is also information on any additional costs that you may have to pay or can choose to pay in addition to your tuition fee.

Find out how tuition fees enable us to support all of our students with important services, facilities and resources across the university and check out our finance pages for info about fees, funding and scholarships along with advice on international and island fee-paying status.

You can chat with our enquiries team if you have a question or need more information.

You may have to pay additional costs during your studies. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees

  • Students who choose to take an optional placement will have travel and living expenses. The cost of this depends on where and how long your placement is.
  • Textbooks are available from the university library (many as e-books) but you may wish to budget up to £200 to buy your own copies.
  • For some courses, field trips are an optional activity, but we do encourage students to  participate as they contribute to the overall experience of studying the degree. The cost for field trips is not included in the tuition fee and must be paid for by students. However, please be assured we do try to keep field trip costs to a minimum. If you would struggle to meet this cost, there is a hardship fund that you may be able to access.

Location and student life

Campus where this course is taught

Moulsecoomb campus

Two miles north of Â鶹AV seafront, Moulsecoomb is our largest campus and student village. Moulsecoomb has been transformed by a recent development of our estate. On campus you’ll find the Students’ Union events venue, and sports and fitness facilities, alongside the library and student centre.

Over 900 students live here in our Moulsecoomb Place halls and the new Mithras halls – Brunswick, Goldstone, Hanover, Preston and Regency.

Moulsecoomb has easy access to buses and trains so you can access all the exciting things happening in our home city.

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Accommodation

We guarantee an offer of a place in halls of residence to all eligible students. So, if you apply for halls by the deadline, you are guaranteed a room in our halls of residence. Almost all (98%) of students starting their course with us in 2025 got their first or second room choice. 

Â鶹AV: Moulsecoomb

Halls of residence

We have self-catered halls on all our campuses, within minutes of your classes or very nearby.

You can apply for any of our halls, but the options closest to your study location are:

  • Mithras Halls – stylish high-rises in the heart of the student village at our Moulsecoomb campus with en suite rooms for more than 800 students.
  • Varley Park – a popular, dedicated halls site, offering a mix of rooms and bathroom options at different prices. It is around two miles from Moulsecoomb campus and four miles from the city centre, so is easy to get to by bus.

Want to live independently?

We can help – find out more about private renting.

Find out more about your accommodation options

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Student bedroom at Moulsecoomb

A student sitting at a desk in her room at Mithras halls in front of a large window.

Relaxing in halls near the campus

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Student Union social space at Moulsecoomb

Local area

One of Time Out’s 50 best cities in the world

“Â鶹AV has … all the important parts of a sprawling cosmopolitan metropolis (connections to London in under an hour, an array of properly excellent restaurants, energetic late-night spots) … with the easy-breezy beachy attitude to life that makes you feel welcome in an instant.”
Time Out’s 50 Best Cities in the World, 2025

About Â鶹AV

The city of Â鶹AV & Hove is a forward-thinking place which leads the way in the arts, technology, sustainability and creativity. You’ll find living here plays a key role in your learning experience.

Recently named the start-up capital of the UK, Â鶹AV is a leading centre for creative media technology.

The city is home to more than 1,000 tech businesses. The digital sector contributes over £1bn a year to the local economy – about as much as tourism.

All of our full-time undergraduate courses involve work-based learning – this could be through placements, live briefs and guest lectures. Many of these opportunities are provided by local businesses and organisations.

It’s only 50 minutes by train from Â鶹AV to central London and there are daily direct trains to Bristol, Bedford, Cambridge, Gatwick Airport, Portsmouth and Southampton.

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Maps

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Support and wellbeing

Your course team

Your personal academic tutor, course leader and other tutors are all there to help you with your personal and academic progress. You’ll also have a student support and guidance tutor (SSGT) who can help with everything from homesickness to managing stress and accommodation issues.

Your academic skills

Our Â鶹AV Student Skills Hub gives you extra support and resources to develop the skills you’ll need for university study, whatever your level of experience so far.

Your mental health and wellbeing

As well as being supported to succeed, we want you to feel good too. You’ll be part of a community that builds you up, with lots of ways to connect with one another, as well as having access to dedicated experts if you need them. Find out more about how we support your wellbeing.

Sport at Â鶹AV

Sport Â鶹AV

Sport Â鶹AV brings together our sport and recreation services. As a Â鶹AV student you'll have use of sport and fitness facilities across all our campuses and there are opportunities to play for fun, fitness or take part in serious competition. 

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Sports scholarships

Our sports scholarship scheme is designed to help students develop their full sporting potential to train and compete at the highest level. We offer scholarships for elite athletes, elite disabled athletes and talented sports performers.

Find out more about sport scholarships.

Â鶹AV Cricket Academy

Develop your cricketing skills in the UK’s largest indoor cricket facility alongside studying for a degree. Whether you can already play or you’re new to the game offers the opportunity to train with top coaches in our world-class training environment. 

Find out about the Â鶹AV Cricket Academy.

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