University of Greenwich, MSc, Financial Management

This programme is ideal for those seeking a management career in the finance area. It is ideally suited to students with a business, economics or numerate background. The programme focuses heavily on core areas of finance; it also provides an intensive course in accounting for those students who do not have an accounting background.

This programme will equip you with a strong foundation in finance theory, and provide the experience and skills that employers demand. There are countless career opportunities in finance for flexible, high-calibre students with good numerical skills.

Industry experts provide guest lectures, career development advice, off-site visits, and curriculum input. Practitioners are involved in developing content and teaching on various courses including Project Finance, Topics in Risk Management and Financial Trading Techniques. As part of our continuing guest lecture series, senior executives from Northern Trust and Barclays have presented to a broad audience of academics, and undergraduate, postgraduate and research students.

The MSc Finance suite of programmes has a typical intake of over 100 students. It is common to find a minimum of 30 nationalities represented.

The aims of the programme are:

• To enable you to become competent and thoughtful practitioners in the wider field of finance
• To develop your reflective, critical and evaluative thinking and judgement and to expose you to the contemporary issues in the field through teaching that is strongly supported by research and professional practice
• To provide an intellectually demanding academic programme of study which emphasises your ability to analyse, synthesise and evaluate key theoretical concepts and practical applications in the accounting and finance subject area.