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    MSc Full-time: 12 months

Masters Degree Description

Our Banking and Finance MSc will help to enhance your lucrative career opportunities in the fast-paced world of multinational banking and finance. It will give you specialist skills combined with advanced level business management techniques.

Core modules will help develop an advanced understanding of essential areas, while optional modules allow you to tailor your degree to your specific interests and career goals.

You will be able to understand and analyse financial institutions, markets, consumer demands and competition. You will also explore the latest concepts in banking, policy, economics and risk management.

Entry Requirements

2:1 (or international equivalent) in finance, economics, accounting, business, or management. Outstanding degrees in any quantitative discipline also considered on a case by case basis. Applicants must have a strong quantitative/mathematics background and have achieved a 2:1 (60%) in a minimum of two modules covering at least two of the following subjects: mathematics, statistics, quantitative methods, quantitative finance specialisms, and econometrics.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Career destinations for our postgraduates include:

  • accountants
  • finance and investment analysts and advisers
  • marketing associate professionals
  • human resources managers
  • management consultants
  • business analysts
  • business development managers
  • financial managers
  • data analysts

Some MSc graduates have gone on to doctoral studies, others have become entrepreneurs

Module Details

Core modules

Semester one

  • Bank Theory, Operations and Management
  • Consumers, Ethics and Regulation in Finance
  • Corporate Financial Strategy
  • Research Methods for Banking

Semester two

  • Financial Security Valuation
  • Quantitative Research Methods for Banking

Summer

One of:

  • Banking and Finance Dissertation60 credits
  • Business Project*60 credits

Optional modules

One of:

  • Bank Risk Measurement and Management
  • Quantitative Risk Management

Two from:

  • Central Banking Theory and Practice
  • Contemporary Issues in Banking
  • Financial Econometrics
  • Contemporary Issues in Finance
  • International Finance10 credits
  • Sustainable Finance

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