Entry requirementsCareer enhancement for recent graduates in a global job market
Academic titleMSc International Business and Finance
Course descriptionProgramme
This rewarding one year programme is for graduates and professionals who are seeking a competitive advantage in today's international financial job market. Students will acquire a highly developed knowledge of business management and financial principles, through both practical application and relevant leading-edge theory. The programme begins with a range of core modules designed to underpin key business and financial principles. These are followed by a choice of electives aimed at developing strategic knowledge and skills in relation to the specialist area of international finance. Following an induction week, students study six core (compulsory) modules covering essential key themes in business and finance:
-Critical Perspectives in Global Management
-Organisational Context and Analysis
-Accounting for Managers
-International Strategic Management, Markets and Resources
-International Finance
-Research Methodology.
Students also select two elective modules which might include:
-International Taxation Policies
-Strategic and Financial Decision Making
-Business Ethics, Environment and Society
-Managing e-Business in a Global Economy
-Globalisation
-International Trade - Theory and Policy.
The final stage is the dissertation, a detailed piece of written research with an international focus, on a finance related-topic of the student's choice.