13 On-Campus Banking and Finance MSc Degree Programs in Ireland

The MAcc Accounting, a one-year full-time course, provides a postgraduate pathway to a career in professional accounting. It affords you the opportunity to fulfill a substantial portion of the study and examination prerequisites necessary for qualifying as an accountant. Upon successfully meeting all the course requirements, you will receive full exemption from all but the Final Admitting Examination (FAE) of Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI).

The objective of our MSc Finance (Corporate Finance) at UCC is to produce graduates who can contribute immediately to the corporate finance industry. As a participant in the course, you will focus on developing your analytical and professional skills, culminating in either a corporate finance project or a corporate internship.

The MSc in Finance is a one-year, intensive program offering January and September intakes. It builds core and advanced finance skills aligned with CFA and GARP’s FRM standards. Taught by top academics, it features industry-relevant modules, practical workshops, and guest lectures, preparing you for a successful finance career.

Our MSc Finance has been designed to produce graduates that meet the demands of employers. The application of finance theory to real-world problems is a consistent theme running through our modules. Extensive use of real-world data is a feature of all taught modules as we seek to integrate theory with real-world practice.

The MSc in Sustainable Finance provides students with real-world insights into the application of finance in achieving sustainable outcomes for corporations, and the process of investing in, financing, and building sustainable development projects, including renewable energy and green initiatives.

Our MSc Finance (Investment & Asset Management) is a one-year program that will provide you with a broad range of theoretical, technical, and professional skills required to develop a career in international finance. Our graduates have excellent prospects and take on roles such as investment manager, financial consultant, investment consultant, trader, risk manager, quantitative analyst, and portfolio construction analyst with Irish and international financial institutions.

DCU's MSc in Financial Mathematics equips you with the skills and knowledge needed for careers in quantitative finance and insurance. You'll master mathematics, finance fundamentals, pricing, hedging, portfolio optimization, risk management, data analysis, and machine learning, giving you a competitive edge in the financial sector.

The goal of the UCD MSc Statistical Data Science is to train the new generation of data scientists, by empowering them with a broad range of foundational and applied skills in statistics and machine learning. On completion of the MSc Statistical Data Science, you will be able to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of statistical concepts, apply advanced statistical reasoning, techniques, and models in the analysis of real data, and employ technical computing skills.

Technological innovation has created a wave of disruptive activity that will change the shape of the global economic and financial system over the next decade. Digitisation and ever-increasing volumes of data has led to a demand for graduates (employees) from programmes specifically tailored to the skills required for a changing and increasingly competitive and globalised business landscape.

The Master of Science in Financial Technology (90 ECTS, Level 9) was developed as an innovative programme intended to develop learners' skills in the area of Financial Technology. The integration of finance and technology has resulted in one of the most rapid and profound shifts in skills requirements within an industry in recent times. This rapid change required current and future employees in financial services to develop a capacity in the areas of finance, technology, regulation and data science to be able to effectively operate in the industry.

The Pathway to MSc in Financial Services aims to develop expertise in your chosen areas of interest (e.g. Digital, Data, Culture, Risk Management, Retail Banking or Investment Funds) while fostering a strategic perspective to enable you to assess strategic alternatives, identify new growth opportunities, and solve complex problems in financial services.

This programme aims to accommodate a wide audience of learners from cognate backgrounds whose specific learning requirements lie in trading and investing. The MSc in Trading and Investing (Level 9, 90 ECTS) programme aims to produce individuals with the specialised skills and attributes necessary to meet the demands of the modern-day trading and investing environment.

Financial analytics arms decision makers with the tools to make sense of an increasingly complex world. By combining internal financial information and operational data with external information such as social media, demographics and big data, financial analytics may address critical business questions with unprecedented ease, speed, and accuracy.