UCAS code: NN43

Start dates: September 2025 / September 2026

Full time: 3 years, or 4 if a work placement is chosen

Part time: up to 8 years

Location: Headington

School(s): Oxford Brookes Business School

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Overview

Whatever area of business you want to go into, accounting and financial skills will always be in demand. At Oxford Brookes, you’ll build a strong understanding of how businesses operate around the world. The practical nature of the course means you’ll feel confident and prepared for life in the working world.

Our teaching staff include qualified accountants and academic experts who will bring their professional insight and research findings into the classroom. We have excellent relationships with employers too, helping our graduates become sought-after applicants in businesses around the world. You can benefit from the real-world insights of guest speakers and a curriculum that teaches you the skills businesses are looking for.

This accounting and finance degree is recognised by both the Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA), the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). That means your studies will count towards your qualification as a chartered professional.

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Why Oxford Brookes University?

  • Professional qualifications

    Accelerate your career by working your way towards being a qualified accountant with ACCA, ICAEW, or CIMA.

  • International insights

    With staff and students from all over the world, you’ll see business from different perspectives.

  • Explore your interests

    Choose from elective modules to focus on a specific area, like economics or taxation.

  • Pursue your passion

    Your dissertation gives you a chance to study something you care about in real depth.

  • Learn by doing

    We believe in the power of experience so you’ll apply your knowledge to real-world situations. There are also opportunities for voluntary accountancy work with local charitable organisations.

  • Learn a language

    Our university-wide language programme is available to full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students on many of our courses, and can be taken as a credit on some courses.

  • Study abroad

    You may be able to go on a European or international study exchange while you are at Brookes. Most exchanges take place in the second year. Although we will help as much as we can with your plans, ultimately you are responsible for organising and funding this study abroad.

  • Accreditation(s)

    Accredited by Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)

    • Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
    • Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
    • Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

Course details

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Study modules

Teaching for this course takes place Face to Face and you can expect around seven hours of contact time per week. In addition to this, you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.

Contact hours involve activities such as lectures, seminars, practicals, assessments, and academic advising sessions. These hours differ by year of study and typically increase significantly during placements or other types of work-based learning.

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Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.

Careers

If you’re planning to become an accountant, then this is an ideal course. You’ll benefit from exemptions from your professional exams with ACCA, ICAEW, or CIMA. In fact, we have the maximum possible number of exemptions with ACCA, so that’s 9 exams you’ve already qualified for by graduation. If you decide to stay with us for postgraduate study we can prepare you for your professional level ACCA exams too.

We’ll help you prepare for professional life throughout the course, with modules focused on professional practice. You won’t just learn accountancy, you’ll learn what it’s like to be an accountant.

However, accountancy is just one area of business you might like to explore. Your strong understanding of finance will be a benefit to any business in any industry. Our graduates are working in organisations like:

  • KPMG
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Grant Thornton
  • Haines Watts
  • HM Treasury
  • Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

You could also look for a graduate scheme or even decide to start your own business.

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Entry requirements

Wherever possible we make our conditional offers using the UCAS Tariff. The combination of A-level grades listed here would be just one way of achieving the UCAS Tariff points for this course.

Standard offer

UCAS Tariff Points: 104

A Level: BCC

IB Points: 29

BTEC: DMM

Contextual offer

UCAS Tariff Points: 96

A Level: CCC

IB Points: 28

BTEC: MMM

Further offer details

Applications are also welcomed for consideration from applicants with European qualifications, international qualifications or recognised foundation courses. For advice on eligibility please contact Admissions: admissions@brookes.ac.uk

If you don’t achieve the required tariff points you can apply to join a foundation course, like Foundation in Business or an international foundation course to help to reach the required level for entry onto this degree.

Holders of the Association of Accounting Technician (AAT) Level 3 Diploma, who also have or are taking one or more A-levels or equivalent, will be considered for admission to year 1 of this course.

Holders of the Association of Accounting Technician (AAT) Level 4 Diploma will be considered for admission to year 2 of this course.

International qualifications and equivalences

Tuition fees

Please see the fees note
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Questions about fees?

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Tuition fees

2024 / 25
Home (UK) full time
£9,250

Home (UK) part time
£1,155 per single module

Home (UK) sandwich (placement)
£1,600

International full time
£16,300

International sandwich (placement)
£1,600

2025 / 26
Home (UK) full time
£9,535

Home (UK) part time
£1,190 per single module

Home (UK) sandwich (placement)
£1,700

International full time
£17,100

International sandwich (placement)
£1,700

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

+44 (0)1865 534400

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

Please note, tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.

For further information please see our 2025-26 tuition fees FAQs.

Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.

The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support. 

How and when to pay

Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.

  • For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
  • For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page

Additional costs

Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.

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Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website. For more information, please visit our changes to programmes page.