Banking And Finance MSc

Name: Banking And Finance MSc
Price: 14700 $
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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.

$14700

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Duration

1 Year

Course Details

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.

As this course is accredited by the Chartered Banker Institute (CBI), you will have valuable networking opportunities with leading industry experts, and it will help to bring you to the attention of top multi-national employers.

You have the option to take industry-recognised digital qualifications by Microsoft and SAP alongside your course, which will develop your digital skills and help you stand out to future employers.

Course Content:

Across the autumn and spring semesters, you will take 120 credits of taught modules. Each module typically consists of 10 two to three hour sessions.
You will complete a 60-credit dissertation over the summer, and will be allocated an appropriate dissertation supervisor who will oversee your progress.
Modules
Course structure
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
Dissertation
Business Project
Optional modules
One of:
Bank Risk Measurement and Management
Quantitative Risk Management
Two from:
Central Banking Theory and Practice
Contemporary Issues in Banking
Contemporary Issues in Finance
International Finance
Sustainable Finance

Entry Requirements:

Home / UK students
Undergraduate degree
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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