University of Sussex School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
MSc in Corporate and Financial Risk Management

Falmer, United Kingdom

DEGREE TYPE

MSc

DURATION

1 year

LANGUAGES

English

PACE

Full time

STUDY FORMAT

On-Campus

* international: 1 August 2024 / UK: 1 September 2024

Key Summary

About : The MSc in Corporate and Financial Risk Management explores the tools and techniques that mitigate risk in financial decision-making. This program covers topics like risk assessment, management strategies, and regulatory frameworks. It usually takes one year to complete as a full-time student or two years for part-time options.

Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue careers in various fields, including risk management, financial analysis, compliance, and consultancy. Opportunities may exist within corporations, banks, and regulatory agencies, allowing students to apply their skills to improve financial stability and compliance within organizations.

Please note: this course is now closed for international applicants for 2023. It remains open for UK applicants.

In this course, you’ll:

Gain an understanding of the main aspects of risk management in business;
Apply mathematics to financial risk description, analysis and quantification;
Experience Sussex’s strong foundation of interdisciplinary research.

The MSc draws on expertise from industry professionals, so you’ll gain the knowledge and skills to succeed in the fast-paced corporate world. Topics covered include quantitative analysis, regulation, implementation and management structure. You’ll have a choice between practice- and research-oriented study and can explore further topics including programming or statistics.

You’ll learn from established specialists in both the Department of Mathematics and the University of Sussex Business School.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2022/23. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to COVID-19, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

We’ll do our best to provide as much optional choice as we can, but timetabling constraints mean it may not be possible to take some module combinations. The structure of a small number of courses means that the order of modules or the streams you choose may determine whether modules are core or optional. This means that your core modules or options may differ from what’s shown below.

Core modules

Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

All year

Dissertation (Financial Mathematics)

Autumn teaching

Financial computing with MATLAB
Financial Mathematics (L.7)
Institutions in the Global Financial Market

Spring teaching

Bank Risk Management
Financial Invest & Corp Risk Analysis
Financial Portfolio Analysis

Options

Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research.

While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.

Autumn teaching