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Banking and Finance, MSc Banking and Finance, MSc Middlesex University

Middlesex University

Masters Degree , Banking

Course Description

With immense power to affect organisations, economies and the day-to-day lives of everyday people, our banks and financial systems play a vital role in maintaining stability throughout the world. A career in this sector is filled with exciting and important challenges to right the wrongs of the recession and develop new innovative ways to do business.

Why study MSc Banking and Finance* at Middlesex University?

Featuring the advanced learning you need to embark on a stimulating career in the financial sector, this course has an emphasis on relevant and prominent issues for the sector such as financial regulation, risk management, international systems, banking institutions and securities markets. We value skills training as highly as we value theory, so you can also expect to learn the practical ways in which you can use this knowledge within your profession, including training in a range of financial software systems.

Many of our academics are involved in pioneering research in areas such as portfolio management, corporate finance and ethics in finance, and have been practitioners with organisations such as Standard and Poors and The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. They have the knowledge and expertise to ensure you emerge from the course with a thorough understanding of domestic and international banking, together with a practical knowledge of key quantitative concepts.

*Please note this course is subject to review.

Course highlights

  • International focus to increase your career opportunities in corporate finance, risk management, investment banking, private banking, and treasury
  • Year-long modules to improve learning and enhance assimilation of complex subjects in a rewarding and beneficial manner
  • Advanced skills preparation in financial modelling, econometrics, and quantitative risk management to prepare you for the practical requirements of your profession
  • Training in specialist industry standard databases systems such as Bloomberg and Datastream, as well as software packages including Stata

Course Content

Our modules are specifically structured to give you plenty of time to utilise large amounts of data and explore complex subjects to their fullest. To begin with the course will equip you with the theory and practice needed to communicate and evaluate empirical work, as well as giving you valuable training in specialist databases and software packages. You will then move on to explore relevant theories such as financial derivative products, international financial regulation, financial risk management and key aspects of corporate finance, as well as how to apply them to practical situations in the financial sector.

Now with the skills and knowledge to research and disseminate financial data to support arguments and draw valuable conclusions you will embark on an original dissertation research project. This is a chance for you to extend your knowledge of a selected topic and to apply it to the formulation and design of a substantive investigation.

There are three different awards available for this course:

  • PG Certificate route comprises two 30 credit modules
  • MSc route comprises two 30 credit modules, four 15 credit modules and a dissertation
  • PG Diploma route comprises two 30 credit modules and four 15 credit modules

Modules

  • Banking and Financial Institutions (30 credits) - Compulsory

  • Financial Econometrics (30 credits) - Compulsory

  • Applied Corporate Finance (15 credits) - Compulsory

  • International Financial Markets (15 credits) - Compulsory

  • International Risk Management (15 credits) - Compulsory

  • International Financial Regulation (15 credits) - Compulsory

  • Dissertation (60 credits) - Compulsory

 

Entry Requirements

Qualifications

  • We normally require a second-class honours degree 2:2 or above in the field of finance or banking, economics, accountancy or business studies
  • First degree must include an applied quantitative element of statistics, mathematics, engineering, physics, computing or science.

Eligibility

UK/EU and international students are eligible to apply for this course.

Academic credit for previous study or experience

If you have relevant qualifications or work experience, academic credit may be awarded towards your Middlesex University programme of study. For further information please visit our Accreditation of Prior Learning page.

Interviews, entrance tests, portfolios and auditions

Entry onto this course does not require an interview, portfolio or audition.

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