MSc Finance

Overview

The course provides a thorough grounding in the latest theory and analytical techniques used by finance professionals, allowing students to understand how money influences the world we live in.

You’ll gain hands-on experience of the process of financial decision-making and practical knowledge of the workings and role of financial markets in the allocation of capital. The course also gives you an understanding of the qualitative and quantitative techniques needed to interpret market reactions to geopolitical events such as Brexit, oil-price shocks and financial crises. Students can also exit with PGCert and PGDip awards.

Course objectives

You’ll develop skills in critical thinking, analysis, synthesis and interpretation of large amounts of complex information. This includes developing arguments and communicating them both in written reports and via oral presentations with textual and visual aids

Key areas which you will focus on the analysis of, include:

• corporate financial decisions
• behavioural biases
• financial statements
• derivatives
• investment portfolios
• investment decisions
• risk and economic data