MSc (Project Management, Finance and Risk )

This academically-rigorous and practical programme will give you a strong foundation in quantitative risk assessment and decision making under uncertain conditions, linked with classical engineering economics and financial engineering. Building on your undergraduate degree your MSc will give you many career opportunities.

Benefits of this course

• The benefits of this masters in project management course are wide and varied and will help progress your future career.
• From analysing indecision within games theory to rebuilding a country’s infrastructure, you’ll explore the drivers in which businesses operate, and the challenges and opportunities that project manager’s face.
• Your learning will be complemented by invited lectures from experts across the industry who bring a diverse set of skills and the ability to solve complex problems.

Award
You can select to apply for one of the available exit points for this course.

Master of Science (MSc)
Who is this course for?

• It’s likely you’ll have a scientific or financial engineering background as the course covers quantitative risk assessment in depth, which requires an aptitude for measuring and analysing data.
• This MSc is for those planning a career in managing the introduction of capital goods or applying the latest project management techniques to complex projects.

Modules:

• 8 in total
• Core modules: 6

Elective modules: 2

• Full-time: attend all the taught modules during terms 1 and 2 and complete your dissertation project within the 12-month period of the degree.
• Part-time: attend half the modules in a first 12-month period, followed by the other half the next year and complete your dissertation project in the second year.

Modules

• The course is delivered in the form of block teaching where students usually need to attend up to five days for each Module. Teaching takes place during day (09:00 to 18:00).
• You are normally required to complete all the taught modules successfully before progressing to the dissertation.

Core modules
Through all core modules you will develop the Graduate Attributes, five core skillsets that will help you launch a successful, fulfilling career. Find out more about the Graduate Attributes.

• Management of Projects (15 credits)
• Mathematics Foundations with Python Programming (15 credits)
• Risk Analysis and Management (15 credits)
• Optimization and Decision Making (15 credits)
• Project Lifecycle Management (15 credits)
• Financial Engineering and Planning (15 credits)

Elective modules

• Data Visualisation and Analysis (15 credits)
• Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship (15 credits)
• Supply Chain Management (15 credits)
• Network Science and Decentralized Finance (15 credits)
• Game Theory (15 credits)

Dissertation (60 credits)

The dissertation provides you with an opportunity to explore a topic in depth. The dissertation will prepare you to acquire sufficient knowledge in research skills and to explore solutions to complex problems, which may fall outside the scope of taught material.

Teaching and assessment

• You will learn across a variety of lectures, tutorials, guided private study, group activities, and coursework.
• There are four core modules and two electives. From the two electives you can choose four or five topics including games theory, perspectives on management and leadership and entrepreneurship, innovations and enterprise.
• The course is organised so that each module is taught in a block of four days followed by tutorial support, guided private study, coordinating activities, and coursework.
• You can also participate in a rolling programme of one-day events to build your communication and team-building skills. These sessions cover topics including conducting research, improving your presentation skills and dealing with people.
• A Prince 2 Project Management Foundation Course leading to certification once you’ve passed an on-line exam is offered in the summer term. Training for the more advanced Practitioner’s certification will also be provided.

Career

• Graduates with this degree are in high demand across a wide range of careers involving project management, risk management and financial planning.

If you want to work in infrastructure management and development, which involves management of supply chain and/or financial risks, this programme will be particularly relevant. Additionally, the course is ideal if you are planning a career in any of the following areas:

• Capital goods
• Management consultancy
• Risk analysis in the pharmaceutical industry
• Project management in the construction industry
• Investment banking
• Banking analysis
• Financial risk analysis
• Real estate management
• Marketing management
• Aircraft engineering
• Entrepreneurship.