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MSc Finance and Investment

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    MSc 1 year full-time

Course Description

Our Finance and Investment MSc will help to enhance your global career opportunities. You will appeal to employers as a skilled professional in investment banking or financial management.

Through real-time access to our Bloomberg Terminals you will learn to utilise data to analyse financial instruments that will underpin your investment decisions. You will also gain a broad understanding of the sector through modules that cover topics including corporate finance, capital market analysis, and financial security valuation.

Entry Requirements

2:1 (international equivalent) in finance, economics, business studies, accounting or financial engineering/mathematics. Outstanding degrees in any quantitative discipline (for example, natural sciences, computer science) also considered on a case by case basis. Applicants must have a strong quantitative/mathematics background and in their final two years of study 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
  • higher education teaching professionals
  • investment bankers
  • IT business analysts
  • management consultants
  • marketing professionals
  • public relations professionals
  • university researchers

Module Details

Core modules

Semester one

  • Capital Market Analysis
  • Corporate Finance
  • Quantitative Research Methods for Accounting and Finance

Semester two

  • Derivative Investment
  • Fixed Interest Investment

Summer

  • Dissertation

Optional modules

Two from:

  • Behavioural Economics and Decision Making
  • Computational Finance
  • Contemporary Issues in Finance
  • International Finance
  • Venture Capital and Private Equity

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