Finance MSc
Coventry, United Kingdom
MSc
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Learn real-world finance on a Bloomberg Trading Floor, gaining skills in asset pricing, data analysis and sustainability to prepare for a diverse career in today’s complex financial landscape.
Course overview
The Finance MSc course builds a sound theoretical foundation that comprehensively explores the complex, dynamic interactions between corporations, financial markets and investors.
Aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the course encourages you to assess governance and ethics, question norms and build systems-thinking skills.
Key course content includes:
- Asset pricing: learn to value equity, debt and derivatives using industry standard techniques. Develop skills crucial for investment management and financial analysis roles, focusing on the accurate assessment and pricing of complex financial instruments.
- Governance and sustainability: understand the financial and ethical challenges corporations face. Explore corporate governance, sustainability, and how businesses meet stakeholder expectations while addressing long-term social and environmental impacts, preparing you for responsible roles in diverse settings.
- Data analysis: master key statistical techniques, including estimation, hypothesis testing and modelling. These skills should enhance your ability to interpret data and make informed decisions.
- Study one module at a time, with five weeks of learning followed by one week of assessment per module.
Why you should study this course
- Practice simulated trading and other finance-related activities using a wide range of industry-standard demo software on our Bloomberg terminals4.
- Access advanced learning facilities with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the Bloomberg Trading Floor and the EconLab4.
- There will be opportunities for you to obtain Bloomberg Market Concept (BMC) and Environmental Social Governance (ESG) certifications at no additional cost.
- Learn from professionals with industry and research experience and interact with expert guest practitioners and scholars of banking and finance (opportunities not guaranteed).
- You will examine contemporary developments at the forefront of the financial sphere.
Key areas of study include the valuation of equity, debt and derivative securities, addressing the financial and ethical challenges facing modern corporations, and applying statistical techniques for estimation, hypothesis testing and modelling. You’ll also explore contemporary issues in finance such as behavioural finance, and mergers and acquisitions.
Modules
- Special Topics in Finance
- Capital Markets and Security Analysis
- Data Analysis and Research Methods
- Corporate Finance and Risk Management
- Governance, Ethics and Sustainability
- Postgraduate Project
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
Successful graduates may seek positions in the following job roles:
- investment analyst,
- financial services,
- corporate treasurer,
- compliance officer,
- wealth manager,
- risk officer,
- banking
- or finance manager.
Upon successful completion, you will be able to:
- demonstrate a critical understanding of financial theories and principles, and the ability to constructively challenge their assumptions
- appraise financial risk and associated risk management strategies and identify appropriate applications and limitations of portfolios and derivative instruments to manage risk exposure
- evidence of the application of advanced mathematical and statistical methods for financial analysis, interpretation and decision-making
- demonstrate critical awareness of the role and importance of effective corporate governance, ethical responsibility, professional accountability, civic contribution, and sustainability
- execute research using critical judgement in the selection of methodological approaches, research techniques and tools
- critically examine the operation and function of international financial markets and institutions and assess the significance of contemporary and innovative developments in finance
- critique, interpret and apply financial frameworks and models to real-world unstructured finance scenarios
- diagnostically deal with financial and investment complexities to produce viable solutions and utilise a variety of methods to communicate conclusions from both quantitative and qualitative analysis.