MSc Banking and Finance

Banking and Finance MSc

• Comprehensive training in finance with special focus on commercial and investment banking, especially regulation and risk management for banking
• Wide range of elective modules
• Optional, ungraded modules eg C++, Python, Matlab, financial trading on Bloomberg and other trading-room systems, technical analysis

School of Economics and Finance

• Around 1,000 master’s students from all over the world
• Teaching by research-active academics as well as visiting city professionals
• Wide range of elective modules
• Wide range of optional short modules(on programming languages, trading platforms such as Bloomberg, etc.)
• QUMMIF investment fund invests real money (currently £40,000) based on analysis from students
• Part of the CFA Institute’s Research Challenge (team of students competes against teams from other universities)

Campus and Facilities

• Close to London’s financial districts (City of London and Canary Wharf)
• On-site accommodation
• State of the art building
• State-of-the art computer labs with mathematical and trading software (eg Reuters and Bloomberg)

Structure

• Optional pre-semester modules in maths and statistics
• Six compulsory taught modules
• Three elective modules
• Dissertation (7,000 words)

For the academic year 2020/2021, you will commence this MSc programme either in September 2020 or January 2021.