MSc Finance (full time)

MSc Finance (full-time)

Academic-year (10 month) programme. Students must take two compulsory courses and optional courses to the value of two full units as shown. They must submit a dissertation in one of the optional half unit courses and take an examination in the other three half unit courses. Admitted students are required to attend the Quantitative Methods September course. The dissertation must be submitted by the 3rd week of June.

Paper	Course number and title
1	FM422 Corporate Finance
2	FM423 Asset Markets
3&4	Students should select 4 half unit papers to the value of 2 full units and write a 6,000 word dissertation (replacing the exam) in one of the half unit courses* FM406 Topics in Portfolio Management (H) (Dissertation code FM4U6) FM407 Applied Financial Valuation (H) (Dissertation code FM4U7) FM408 Financial Engineering (H) (Dissertation code FM4U8) FM409 Risk Management for Financial Institutions (H) (Dissertation code FM4U9) FM413 Fixed Income Markets (H) (Dissertation code FM4U1) or FM405 Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets (H) (Dissertation code FM4U5) FM440 Corporate Finance Theory (H) (Dissertation code FM4T3) FM446 Trading and Institutions (H) (Dissertation code FM4T6) FM472 International Finance (H) (Dissertation code FM4T9) In exceptional cases it may be possible to take an unlisted optional course with the approval of the Programme Director.
Notes	*Students will be required to attend teaching for the course which they choose to write their dissertation on.