Business Analytics with Finance, BSc (Hons)

The BSc (Hons) in Business Analytics with Finance, delivered by Bayes Business School—a top 6 UK institution per Financial Times rankings—combines rigorous academic teaching with practical industry elements to enhance career prospects. This includes experiential learning through five bootcamps for technology skills, two data competitions for dissemination abilities, five knowledge integration modules for analytical thinking, one work experience module for actionable insights, and opportunities via micro-placements, internships, and industry projects.The program adopts a modular structure: Core Development in Year 1 and early Year 2 builds foundational knowledge; Core Specialisation in mid-Year 2 applies concepts to complex scenarios; and Deployment Specialisation in Year 3 develops advanced skills, potentially culminating in a final project. Assessment involves coursework, examinations, tests, quizzes, presentations, and group or individual projects, with modules subject to change.

Year 1 Core modules:

• Finance and Investment

• Introduction to Management

• Mathematics for Business Analytics

• Data Visualisation

• Business Economics

• Statistics for Business Analytics

• Unsupervised Machine Learning

• Data Wrangling and Exploratory Data Analysis

• Applied Business Intelligence

• Applied Natural Language Processing

• Financial Econometrics

• Supervised Machine Learning

• Predictive Analytics Knowledge Integration

• Scalable Analytics Methods

• Portfolio Theory and Investment Valuation

• Deep Learning

• Data Management Systems

• AI-Powered Analytics

• Explainability of Analytics Methods

• Fintech in Banking and Finance

• Quantitative and Algorithmic Trading

• Final Year Applied Research Project Applied Research Project

• Spatial Analytics

• Consulting Research Methods for Business Analytics

• Micro-placements

• Summer Internship

• Advanced Econometrics and Forecasting

• Derivatives

• Network Analytics

• Change Management

• Embedding Innovation

• Financial Engineering

• The Role of Environmental, Social and Governance in Banking and Finance