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MSc in Finance (full-time)

Programme Code: TMFIFT

Department: Finance

For students starting this programme of study in 2024/25

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations


Academic-year (10 month) programme. Students must take two compulsory courses and optional courses to the value of two full units as shown. All students must submit a structured project in one of the optional half unit courses and take an examination in the other three half unit courses, if applicable. The structured project must be submitted by the published deadline. Admitted students are required to attend a pre-sessional course at the start of the programme in September.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Year 1

Paper 1

FM422 Corporate Finance (1.0) #

Paper 2

FM423 Asset Markets (1.0) #

Papers 3 & 4

Courses to the value of 2.0 unit(s) from the following:

 

FM405 Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets (0.5) #

 

FM406 Topics in Portfolio Management (0.5) #

 

FM407 Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings (0.5) #

 

FM408 Financial Engineering (0.5) #

 

FM409 Risk Management in Financial Markets (0.5) #

 

FM410 Private Equity (0.5)

 

FM412 Quantitative Security Analysis (0.5) #

 

FM414 Corporate Investment and Financial Policy (0.5) #

 

FM471 Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing (0.5) #

 

FM476 Entrepreneurial Finance (0.5) #

 

FM477 International Finance A (0.5) #

Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

Students are required to write a 6,000 word structured project (replacing the exam) in one of the half unit courses. Students will be required to attend teaching for the course which they choose to write their dissertation on.

The  facilitates comparability and compatibility between higher education systems across the European Higher Education Area. Some of the School's taught master's programmes are nine or ten months in duration. If you wish to proceed from these programmes to higher study in EHEA countries other than the UK, you should be aware that their recognition for such purposes is not guaranteed, due to the way in which ECTS credits are calculated.

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