Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year
Advance your understanding of how finance theory is applied in the real world. You'll study essential topics, such as corporate finance, behavioural finance, and asset pricing and portfolio theory.
You'll learn to use the core analytical skills needed to thrive in the financial industry. Our academics will teach you how to use econometric methods to analyse data and interpret complex financial models.
Towards the end of the course, you will complete an extended research project on a topic of your choosing. Our academics will support you in applying the analytical and technical skills needed to explore your interests within the field of finance.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in economics or a degree which meets the module requirements below.
This course will give you the tools to excel in a financial career involving areas such as asset management, investment banking, corporate finance and financial consulting. The course will also prepare you for a career in economics or academia.
Over 90% of our graduates are in employment or further study within 15 months of graduation (Graduate Outcomes, 2021/22). Our students are highly sought after by companies around the world and have gone on to work at:
Our students have also secured places at other top institutions, such as London Business School, to complete further education in research.
Core modules:
Asset Pricing and Portfolio Theory
Behavioural Finance
Corporate Finance
Econometric Methods Core modules:
Applied Econometrics: Cross-sectional and Panel Data Approaches
Applied Econometrics: Time Series Approaches
Derivatives, Options, and Securities
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