MSc in Finance (full-time) (Work Placement Pathway)

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Programme Code: TMFIFTW

Department: Finance

For students starting this programme of study in 2019/20

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Academic-year (10 month) programme. Students must take two compulsory courses and optional courses to the value of two full units as shown. All students 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 a pre-sessional course at the start of the programme in September. The dissertation must be submitted by the first week of June.

Students who choose to transfer to the Work Placement Pathway must undertake a work placement and assessment in addition to the courses listed above. Transferring to the Work Placement Pathway extends the duration of the programme to 12 months. Students have the option to transfer to the Work Placement Pathway upon receipt of an offer to undertake an internship placement, which must be approved by the Department. Students on this pathway are required to undertake a full-time internship or work placement during the summer and to submit an essay of 2000 words following the placement (see FM411 for details). The essay will be assessed on a pass/fail basis and students must pass the essay to graduate from the programme.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Programme
Paper	Course number, title (unit value)
Year 1
Paper 1	FM422 Corporate Finance (1.0) ^#
Paper 2	FM423 Asset Markets (1.0) ^#
Papers 3 & 4	Students should select 4 half unit courses to the value of 2 full units from List 1 and List 2 below. Students must select at least three courses from the dedicated list of options.
	List 1 - Courses assessed by Exam or Coursework Dedicated list of options:
	FM405 Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets (0.5) ^#
	FM406 Topics in Portfolio Management (0.5) ^#
	FM407 Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings (0.5) ^#
	FM408 Financial Engineering (0.5) ^# (not available 2023/24)
	FM409E Risk Management in Financial Markets (0.5) ^#
	FM414 Corporate Investment and Financial Policy (0.5) ^#
	FM477 International Finance A (0.5) ^#
	Other options:
	FM412 Quantitative Security Analysis (0.5) ^#
	FM476 Entrepreneurial Finance (0.5) ^#
	List 2 - Courses assessed by Dissertation Courses cannot be selected from this list if the course with the equivalent title has already been selected from List 1. Dedicated list of options:
	FM478 International Finance for MSc Finance and Economics, MSc Finance and MSc Finance & Private Equity - Dissertation (0.5) ^# (withdrawn 2023/24)
	FM4T4 Corporate Investment and Financial Policy - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)
	FM4T6 Topics in Portfolio Management - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)
	FM4T8 Financial Engineering - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)
	FM4U5 Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)
	FM4U7 Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)
	FM4U9E Risk Management in Financial Markets - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)
	In exceptional cases it may be possible to take an unlisted optional course with the approval of the Programme Director.
	Other options:
	FM4T9 International Finance - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2021/22)
	FM4U4 Quantitative Security Analysis - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)
Additional course	The following course is not for credit and can be taken in addition to courses to the value of 2.0 units selected from Papers 3 & 4:
	FM457 Applied Computational Finance (0.0) (withdrawn 2023/24)
Work Placement Pathway
Paper	Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 5	FM411 Finance Work Placement and Assessment (0.0) ^# ^A

Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

Footnotes

A : This element is not for credit, but is a requirement for students on the Work Placement Pathway and must be taken in addition to courses to the value of two full units selected from Papers 3 & 4. Successful completion of FM411 is a requirement for students to be eligible for the award of the degree.

The Bologna Process facilitates comparability and compatibility between higher education systems across the European Higher Education Area. Some of the School's taught master's programmes are nine or ten months in duration. If you wish to proceed from these programmes to higher study in EHEA countries other than the UK, you should be aware that their recognition for such purposes is not guaranteed, due to the way in which ECTS credits are calculated.

Note for prospective students:
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