Finance and Management MSc

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%).

Compulsory

• Advanced Corporate Finance: focuses on empirical and theoretical issues that arise in modern corporate finance.
• Applied Financial Econometrics: provides students with an understanding of issues involved in the design of research projects within a finance and management discipline.
• Corporate Financial Management: provides an introduction to modern theories of financial management and shows how to apply the theory to realistic financial decision problems.
• Investments and Portfolio Management: provides comprehensive instruction on topics in investment finance, combining investment markets instruction with portfolio management.

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

• Alternative Investments
• Creative Marketing Communications
• Entrepreneurship and Business Planning
• Entrepreneurship Creativity and Innovation
• Ethics, Organisations and Management
• Financial Systems
• International Financial Management
• International Marketing
• Leadership in Organisations
• Managerial Decision-making
• Managing Natural Resources
• Managing People in Global Markets
• Marketing and Society
• Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs): Critical Perspective
• Risk Management
• Scenario Thinking and Strategy

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 Finance and Marketing, 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.

Students are assigned a supervisor based on a research proposal submitted in the second semester. They 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.