Career prospects

Targeting students at university is a tradition among big graduate recruiters. However, they still have 'target schools', universities where they particularly focus their effort. Included in this group are Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick…

The Guardian, writing about investment banking

Throughout the year we host Employer Evenings at WBS, open to all three of our finance courses. Having researched the companies, and presented themselves well, many of our students have been recruited directly from these career development events. Recent years have seen visits by CommerzBank, JPMorgan, and Barclays Capital.

We also encourage you to use the facilities and expertise of the University of Warwick Careers Service. Take advantage of their expertise and services including workshops, employer liaison, vacancy searches, information provision, and advice.

Our course also has Program Partner status from CFA Institute, which certifies our curriculum is closely tied to professional practice. On completing our course, our graduates go on to work for a wide range of financial organisations (or organizations if you use US English) both domestically and internationally.

The list below is just a sample of what our graduates are up to all over the world.