MSc Finance with Financial Technology

  • DeadlineStudy Details: MSc 1 year full-time

Masters Degree Description

This programme will allow you to pursue an MSc in Finance with a specialisation in Financial Technology. You’ll be exposed to emerging financial technology and core finance theory and practice ensuring your success in an interconnected, diverse and rapidly evolving international finance arena.

You’ll gain an in-depth insight into strategic aspects of finance and financial technology. Together, we’ll explore key topics of investment management, corporate finance, big data and AI application in finance while developing your research skills and programming proficiency for data analysis and machine learning. Optional modules will help you tailor your learning in specific aspects of finance or financial technology to achieve your future career aspirations. This specialisation will be further solidified through a FinTech-focused dissertation that tackles real-world FinTech challenges.

Entry Requirements

In order to be considered for an offer for this programme you will need to meet all of the entry requirements. Your application will not be progressed if the information and evidence listed is not provided.

With your online application you will need to provide:

  1. A copy of your degree certificate and transcripts which show you have achieved a 2:1 honours degree in finance or a related subject, or an equivalent international degree. If your degree certificate or result is pending, please upload any interim transcripts or provisional certificates.
  2. A copy of your IELTS certificate with an overall score of 6.5 with 5.5 in all subskills, or evidence of an accepted equivalent. Please include the date of your expected test if this qualification is pending. If you have alternative acceptable evidence, such as an undergraduate degree studied in the UK, please supply this in place of an IELTS.

If you do not have a degree in a relevant area, your application may be considered on the basis of your professional experience. Please provide additional evidence to support your application such as signed and dated employer references.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Throughout the programme, you'll develop and apply the key technical and soft skills required to become an effective specialist in finance and financial technology. You'll see your expertise build cumulatively across the programme as you are given multiple opportunities to explore research and practice and respond to practical finance and trading challenges. This will give you an added advantage as you enter the workplace as a specialist in finance and financial technology.

Graduates from our finance programmes have gone on to roles such as analysts, financial managers, consultants, traders and auditors in the London Stock Exchange Group, Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, JP Morgan, China Merchants Bank and Petronas among many others.

Module Details

Core modules for year one

  • AI Application in Finance    BST157    20 credits
  • Big Data Analytics for Finance    BST158    20 credits
  • Investment Management    BST953    20 credits
  • Corporate Finance    BST954    20 credits
  • Quantitative Methods in Finance    BST956    20 credits
  • Research Dissertation    BST969    60 credits

Optional modules for year one

  • Market Structure and Electronic Trading    BST959    20 credits
  • Financial Technology and Behaviour    BST963    20 credits

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