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    KEY FACTS

    • Title
      MSc Finance
    • Award
      Master of Science - MSc
    • Study mode
      Full-time (Part-time route available)
    • Duration
      1 year
    • Start date
       September 2013
    • Fees
       See fees information above

MSc Finance

Our MSc Finance programme is designed for aspiring financial professionals. We can help you accelerate your career prospects by sharpening your analytical and critical reasoning skills, and honing your financial knowledge and technical proficiency.  
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​Programme Highlights

  • Gain a global perspective on the overseas financial environment
  • Three flexible study options give you more control over your time
  • Accelerate your career through academic achievement
  • Enhance your current vocational skills to a higher level

 

 

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​Programme aims

  • to help you to develop skills, competencies, knowledge, and understanding demanded by a complex financial environment.
  • to enhance problem-solving skills in corporate financial management.
  • to foster an understanding of the global financial environment, with particular reference to stock markets and institutional issues, and the implications of this for financial management decisions and policies.
  • to develop an understanding of the implications of a firm's financialStudents and lecturer in discussion strategies on investor income, wealth and risk.
  • to develop an understanding of the complex, diverse and international nature of financial management.
  • to promote in-depth knowledge and understanding of financial management decisions and policies.
  • to meet the needs of commerce, industry and society in producing postgraduates with high analytical skills and a critical appreciation of financial issues and their implications.
  • to provide you with an opportunity to take electives to broaden your knowledge in areas such as, for example, quantitative or maritime finance; and
  • to demonstrate technical competence and knowledge in econometrics, which can provide a sound basis for dissertation preparation and the possibility of subsequent postgraduate research in finance.