Understand and analyse international financial markets, institutions and strategies of investors. Our Finance MSc delivers advanced knowledge and skills in financial markets and institutions.

You'll learn how they function and interact with the real economy. You'll gain knowledge in making optimal decisions in your financial career.

The financial services sector has experienced worldwide growth. This has increased the demand for students with specialist skills and competencies in finance. This course will suit you if you are interested in the following careers:

• investment banking
• financial research
• financial trading

Your studies will include:

• financial markets and institutions
• the management of the asset-specific company and country risk

We'll encourage you to engage with contemporary debates. This should be related to the operation of financial markets and institutions. You'll learn about the types and function of financial markets. Such as:

• stock
• bond
• foreign exchange
• derivative markets

You'll benefit from our status as a Bloomberg Experiential Learning Partner. Through self-study, you'll complete the Bloomberg Market Concepts certificate. This gives you an interactive introduction to the financial markets.

What you'll learn:

Our course is responsive to trends and issues in global financial markets and services. It features compulsory modules in financial theory and corporate policy. It also includes optional modules on:

• financial markets
• financial institutions
• applied empirical methods in finance

Access advanced statistical software and financial databases to support your empirical projects and dissertation.

Advanced statistical software

Where possible you'll have access to advanced statistical software including:

• Eviews
• SPSS
• Stata
• Gauss
• MATLAB
• SAS
• Maple
• Minitab

Financial databases

You'll also have access to a number of financial databases including:

• Bloomberg
• DataStream
• Fame
• Amadeus
• WRDS
• Compustat
• CRSP
• Oriana
• Global Financial Database

Our Careers Service:

Our award-winning Careers Service is one of the largest and best in the country, and we have strong links with employers. We provide an extensive range of opportunities to all students through our ncl+ initiative.