Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: MSc full-time, part-time
This programme is designed for recent graduates with first degrees in political science, public administration, economics, accounting and finance, sociology, and other social science subjects. The programme is also designed for individuals who already work in government or the public sector more generally, and who aim to strengthen their knowledge, capabilities and skills to improve career prospects. This programme aims to provide: 1) a deeper comprehensive knowledge set of theories on public policy, public management and public financial management; 2) a clear understanding of major contemporary issues in public policy, public management and public financial management across countries in the world, 3) distinguishing capacity to analyse, assess and explain salient topics in public policy, public management and public financial management and 4) Enhanced capacity to argue and communicate effectively about choices in the domains of public policy, public management and public financial management.
We will consider all applications with 2:ii (or international equivalent) or higher. In addition to degree classification we take into account other elements of the application including supporting statement and references.
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Graduates from the School of Finance and Management leave SOAS with a coherent and solid knowledge of management and finance, with skills in statistics and computing, critical reasoning and analytical thinking.
Recent Finance and Management graduates have been hired by:
Christian Aid
Dagong Global
Deloitte
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Elbus Group
Financial Times
FM Capital Partners
HM Treasury
Houlihan Lokey
Huaxia Bank, China
IDB (Islamic Development Bank)
Investec
J.P. Morgan Asset Management
KPMG
Lloyds Banking Group
Santander
UBS
University of Oxford
White & Case LLP
World Food Programme
Core
Public Governance, Accountability and Transparency - 15 credits
Open
Compulsory
Management, Innovation and Leadership in the Public Sector - 15 credits
Open
Public Policy: Perspectives, Issues and Strategies - 15 credits
Open
Digital Government and Regulation - 15 credits
Open
Public Financial Management - 15 credits
Open
Compulsory Dissertation or Project
Choice of- 60 credit dissertation (if students take the dissertation module, then they must submit a dissertation proposal after auditing the Research Methods module. The research proposal would carry 25% of the marks and the dissertation itself 75%) 30 credit Practical Industry Project + 30 credit Research Project (please see relevant modules)
Practical Industry Project - 30 credits
Open
Research Project (School of Finance and Management) - 30 credits
Open
Dissertation in Public Policy and Management - 60 credits
Open
Guided options
15-45 credits to be selected from List A
Research Methods - 15 credits
Open
Cultural Intelligence and Global Business Communication - 15 credits
Open
International human resource management - 15 credits
Open
Data Analytics with Python - 15 credits
Open
Project Management (School of Finance and Management) - 15 credits
Open
Open options
Students can take a maximum of 30 credits from the School-wide open options list, including languages.
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