Employability

Work and study

This is what our MA (Hons) Business and Finance students are doing six months after graduating:

• 65% are working
• 15% are studying
• 15% are working and studying.

Managerial/professional position

• 70% of those working are in a professional/managerial position six months after graduating.

Salary

• The average salary of students six months after graduating: £21000
• The average UK salary of students six months after graduating from a similar course: £20000

Jobs

These are the most common jobs students go into six months after graduating:

• Business and public service associate professionals
• Managers, directors and senior officials
• Business, research and administrative professionals
• Administrative occupations
• Sales occupations
• Elementary occupations

Entry requirements

Year 1

• Highers AAAB
• A-Levels BBB
• HNC B in graded unit
• Int. Baccalaureate 29 points

Year 2

• A-Levels ABB in relevant subjects
• Advanced Highers BB in relevant subjects, plus AAAB at Higher.
• HNC Relevant HNC. A in graded unit.
• HND BB in graded units, relevant HND.
• Int. Baccalaureate 34 points plus relevant subjects
• Additional information Please note that level 1 entry is the normal route for those wishing to gain the maximum number of available exemptions from professional examinations of accountancy bodies such as ACCA and ICAS.

Year 3

• HND Relevant HND. AA in graded units.

Additional information

• Intermediate 2 / National 5 / GCSE English and Mathematics are required for entry to all levels of our Accountancy and Finance programmes.

Fees and funding

* Your residency 'status' is usually defined as the country where you have been ordinarily resident for the three years before the start of your course. Find out more about tuition fees.

** European Union countries, not including England, Northern Ireland or Wales.

*** 'Rest of the UK' (RUK) students entering at Level 1 receive a fee waiver of one year's tuition fee. Normally this will be the final year, or a year during which students study abroad (either at a partnership institution, or at one of Heriot-Watt's overseas campuses).