BSc Accounting and Finance student wins Undergraduate of the Year award
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Second year BSc in Accounting and Finance student, Leanne Sweet, has been awarded First Year Undergraduate of the Year, at the Undergraduate of the Year Awards, held at East Wintergarden in Canary Wharf last week.
The awards, sponsored by Target Jobs (GTI Publishing), celebrated ‘the UK’s brightest undergraduates’ and consisted of just eights prizes, each one sponsored by one of the top graduate recruiters.
Leanne, who is now in her second year of studies at the School of Management, competed against 421 other students and undertook a number of online tests, interviews and assessment exercises to emerge as overall winner of the award, which was sponsored by Ernst & Young.
Leanne responded to her win, saying:
"I am delighted to have won. Both Target Jobs and Ernst & Young were very helpful at every stage. My prize was a summer internship at Ernst and Young and a trip to Florida to attend the Global Leadership Conference. I feel this will help with future job aspects and it has been a great experience."
The University of Bath in fact had two winners and six students were shortlisted, the most of any university, proving it to be the best performing university at the Awards. The other winner was Hamish Woodrow, who won the Engineering Undergraduate of the Year Award.
Chris Phillips, UK and Ireland Publishing Director for GTI Publishing, said of the result:
“It’s a measure of your success in producing academically gifted students with the sort of personal skills that recruiters want.”
Notes to Editors
The BSc in Accounting and Finance, one of three undergraduate degrees offered by the School of Management, provides a solid grounding in the core disciplines of management whilst providing specialist knowledge for those wishing to pursue a career in accounting or finance. The programme may be studied over three or four years; the four year option includes a one year work placement. An MSc in Accounting & Finance Programmes are also available.
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General Notes For Editors:
The University of Bath School of Management has consistently achieved both top research and teaching ratings in the UK's Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) assessments. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), the School was rated 5th in the UK for management research.
We are one of a select number of international business schools accredited by EQUIS, the European Foundation for Management Development's quality inspectorate and the Bath MBA has been accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) since 1976. The School is consistently ranked among the top UK business schools by The Times, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times and The Guardian.
The centrality of research to teaching is an essential feature of all our programmes. The School offers a full range of programmes from undergraduate to postgraduate up to PhD level and post-experience programmes including the world-ranked Bath MBA. The School also provides tailored executive development programmes for middle and senior management.
The School of Management has a faculty of around 90 teaching and research staff, including visiting academics, with a support team of around 70 managerial and administrative staff. Research income averages £2 million per annum. There are approximately 2,100 students in total comprising some 200 MBA students, 460 Master’s students, 210 full- and part-time research students, and over 1100 undergraduates following BSc degrees. The School also runs joint undergraduate programmes with Departments in the Faculties of Engineering and Design, Science and Humanities and Social Sciences.
