Banking and Finance MSc

The modules in this programme have varying methods of delivery and assessment. Typically, each module consists of three to five contact hours per week including lectures, seminars and tutorials. Assessment is either entirely by coursework or through a combination of coursework (50%) and a two-hour end-of-semester examination (50%).

Complusory

• Banking and Finance: provides students with an in-depth knowledge and a rigorous background in the mainstream areas of modern banking and finance.
• Advanced Corporate Finance: focuses on empirical and theoretical issues that arise in modern corporate finance.
• Advanced Financial Econometrics: further develops econometrical skills of students to implement statistical analysis in the area of banking and finance.
• Applied Financial Econometrics: provides students with an understanding of issues involved in the design of research projects within a finance and management discipline.

Students choose two optional modules, taking one in each semester.

• Alternative Investment: provides students with an overview of investment opportunities alternative to the main equity and bond markets.
• Financial Systems: outlines the fundamentals of financial systems, focusing on the influence of technology and innovation along with the challenges that these pose to regulators.
• International Financial Management: studies in the international monetary frameworks and the conduct of monetary policies in major developed economies.
• Responsible Investment: provides students with an in-depth knowledge of responsible investment, which integrates environmental, social and governance issues into investment decision making.
• Risk Management: provides an introduction to managing the exposure to risk and how to apply relevant theories to realistic financial decision problems.

Students attend lectures throughout Semesters 1 and 2 to prepare them for conducting the research portion of the dissertation. The dissertation is normally on a specific area of Banking and Finance, however at the School of Management, you will have the freedom to develop a topic of your own, which is of interest to you and will contribute towards career development or further study goals.

You will be assigned a supervisor based on your research proposal submitted in the second semester. Students will then research and write a 15,000-word dissertation over the summer to be submitted on a date specified in August.

If students choose not to complete the dissertation requirement for their Masters degree (MSc), there are exit awards available that allow suitably qualified candidates to receive a Postgraduate Diploma. By choosing an exit award, you will finish your degree at the end of the second semester of study and receive a PGDip instead of a MSc.