MSc in Finance and Private Equity

Academic-year (10 month) programme. Students must take three compulsory courses (FM410 Private Equity includes a dissertation) and optional courses to the value of 1.5 units. Admitted students are required to attend the Quantitative Methods September course. The dissertation must be submitted by the third week in June. 

Paper

Course number and title

1

FM422

Corporate Finance

2

FM423

Asset Markets

3

FM410

Private Equity (H)

4

Three of the following half unit courses (students must select at least two courses from the list of dedicated options marked (*):

 

FM404

Forecasting Financial Time Series (H) +

FM405

Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets (H)*

FM406

Topics in Portfolio Management (H)*

FM407

Applied Financial Valuation (H)*

FM408

Financial Engineering (H)*

FM409

Risk Management for Financial Institutions (H)* 

FM414

Cases in Corporate Finance (H)*

FM440

Corporate Finance Theory (H) (n/a 14/15)

FM457

MATLAB for MSc Students***

FM472

International Finance (H)

Notes

In exceptional circumstances it may be possible to take an unlisted optional course with the approval of the programme Director.

 

Students are required to write a 6,000 word dissertation in FM410 and must sit examinations in all other courses.

 

+ with the approval of the course leader.

 

*** This course is not for credit and can be taken in addition to courses to the value of three half units selected from Paper 4.