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Start date:
January 2025
September 2025
Duration:
MSc: September: 1 year (full-time) or 2 years (part-time)
January: 1 year, 3 months (full-time)
PGDip: 8 months (full-time)
PGCert: 4 months (full-time)
Please add an additional year if undertaking the Professional Experience Year: integrated 2-year masters
Number of credits:
MSc: 180 credits at Level 7
PGDip: 120 credits at Level 7
PGCert: 60 credits at Level 7
Gain the in-depth knowledge of finance and banking, risk management as well as elevating your skills in-line with increased workplace demand.
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You'll cover a syllabi of relevant professional bodies including the Chartered Banker Institute (CBI), Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) and Institute of Risk Management (IRM)
This course is available as an extended masters for international students
Modules
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Professional Experience Year
This course also offers the option of a Professional Experience Year. This programme combines dynamic career modules with flexible placement opportunities. After completing your first year of study, you'll then complete a full year of Professional Experience training as part of your degree. This will give you real career experience. This unique opportunity offers you distinct paths to build your expertise.
Block Mode Teaching
From September 2025, this course will be taught in dedicated blocks.
This innovative approach means that you will be taught in six-week blocks that focus exclusively on one module at a time. You will be able to fully immerse yourself in each topic and apply your learning effectively.
Each module block includes eight teaching hours (lectures and practical workshops) each week, over two days.
- You can focus on one subject at a time, maximising your understanding, retention and application of knowledge
- Reduce the stress of juggling multiple subjects at once
- A clear timetable making it easier to balance academic commitments with personal life
- Dedicated days to delve into each topic without distraction
- Focus on one assessment at a time at the end of each block
- Eliminates the pressure of multiple end-of-term assessments
- Regular tasks are integrated into each block, ensuring timely feedback and continuous improvement
- A modern, practical way to learn that prepares you for your career goals.
Induction week – you will be introduced to the subject, the course team and other students on the module
Six weeks of teaching – deep dive into content led by subject experts, utilising research informed teaching, practical case studies, group work and hands-on projects
Assessment week – each block will end with a focused assessment where you can apply your knowledge to real-world cases
Break week - opportunity to prepare for your next block and connect with new students
Skills
Gain the expertise you need to upskill and specialise in your career.
Our MSc Banking, Finance and Risk Management will help you develop the knowlege and skills to:
- Conduct research in business and management
- Understand wealth management solutions
- Develop risk management strategies
The programme consists of the following pathways:
PG Diploma / MSc Banking, Finance and Risk Management
If you choose to do the full masters programme you will learn about international corporate finance, strategic investment and banking and wealth management.
You'll complete modules looking at risk management and corporate governance, how to identify and manage risks and how to measure and monitor organisational resilience and sustainability.
On the MSc you will also develop practical research skills and undertake a consultancy project or research-based dissertation.
PG Cert Banking and Finance pathway
On this pathway you will focus solely on international corporate finance, strategic investment and banking and wealth management.
PG Cert Risk Management pathway
This pathway will cover risk management, corporate governance, and project risk appraisal. You will learn how to identify and manage risks and how to measure and monitor organisational resilience and sustainability.
Whichever pathway you choose, you will develop key skills in information searching, data collection, problem-solving, communications, and report-writing.
Learning
Choose a pathway that works for you.
You'll work in high-spec facilities, like our Business Laboratory and Bloomberg Trading Room, and discuss current issues facing businesses and financial services in peer-to-peer debates and case studies.
You’ll also have the chance to pursue a consultancy project with either a multinational corporation or a prominent SME in London.
Professional Development Programme
Through this mandatory, co-curricular module, you’ll practice and enhance your core skills in the following areas:
- Presenting
- Critical writing
- Research
You’ll also work on negotiation techniques, developing the credibility of your arguments to give you the competitive edge.
Modules will be assessed by coursework assignments and you will apply your knowledge to specific business contexts.
Professional placement
If you want to apply academic theory to the real world of business before you graduate, you can also take an optional, paid placement in Year 2. Where possible, this will be tailored to your individual interests and career aspirations. But wherever your placement takes you, it will enable you to:
- Learn on the job
- Influence decisions, and
- Contribute to business development and projects
Careers
Take the lead in shaping a sustainable future.
With our MSc Banking, Finance and Risk Management you'll be prepared to work in either corporate finance of in the financial services industry.
The Risk Management pathways will help you secure work in business risk management, project management or hybrid roles.
You'll be able to take on general management, hybrid or consultancy roles in a wide range of sectors.
On the MSc, the consultancy project will help prepare you for a career as a consultant, whilst the dissertation option allows you to explore a relevant topic of your choice in-depth and may lead to further research/study (i.e. a doctorate programme).
How our careers service supports you
Our careers support team is available to support you from the start of your studies until after you graduate.
We will help you build your CV, prepare for interviews, and meet and learn from successful graduates working at the top of their careers.
Open days
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Applying
UK postgraduate students apply through our direct application system.
Course subject to curriculum review and validation.
General entry requirements
January 2025 entry tuition fees (UK)
| Level of study | Full-time | Part-time* |
| MSc | £11,025 Placement year: £1,995 |
£5,788 |
| PGDip | £7,350 | N/A |
*average fee per year
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our 2024 financial support pages for UK students.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.
September 2025 entry tuition fees (UK)
To be confirmed.
International postgraduate students apply through our direct application system.
Course subject to curriculum review and validation.
General entry requirements
January 2025 entry tuition fees (international)
| Level of study | Full-time | Part-time* |
| MSc | £17,325 Placement year: £1,995 |
£9,096 |
| PGDip | £11,550 | N/A |
*average fee per year
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our 2024 financial support pages for international students.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.
September 2025 entry tuition fees (international)
To be confirmed.
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