MSc in Finance and Economics
Programme Code: TMFIEC
Department: Finance
For students starting this programme of study in 2020/21
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 three compulsory full-unit core courses and two optional half-unit courses. All students must submit a 6,000 word dissertation in one of the optional courses and take a two-hour examination in the other. Students are also required to attend EC400 Introductory Course in Mathematics and Statistics.
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.
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Introductory Course |
EC400 Introductory Course in Mathematics and Statistics (0.0) # | |
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EC4B5 Macroeconomics for MSc F&E (0.5) # and EC4B6 Microeconomics for MSc F&E (0.5) # * A | |
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With the approval of the Programme Director, students who have already completed the equivalent of EC411 in their prior studies may be permitted to take the following course instead: | |
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Paper 4 |
Courses to the value of 0.5 unit(s) from the following, to be assessed by examination: | |
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FM409E Risk Management in Financial Markets (0.5) # (not available 2024/25) | |
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FM421 Finance for Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings (0.5) # | |
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AND courses to the value of 0.5 unit(s) from the following, to be assessed by dissertation (please note that a course cannot be selected from this list of the course with the equivalent title has already been selected from List 1): | |
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FM478 International Finance for MSc Finance and Economics, MSc Finance and MSc Finance & Private Equity - Dissertation (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
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FM4T1 Forecasting Financial Time Series - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
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FM4T2 Finance for Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings- Dissertation (0.5) | |
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FM4T5 Portfolio Management - Dissertation (0.5) | |
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FM4T6 Topics in Portfolio Management - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
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FM4T8 Financial Engineering - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
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FM4T9 International Finance - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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FM4U1 Fixed Income Markets - Dissertation (0.5) | |
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FM4U2 Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (Dissertation) (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
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FM4U4 Quantitative Security Analysis - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
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FM4U5 Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets - Dissertation (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
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FM4U9E Risk Management in Financial Markets - 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 1.0 unit selected from Paper 4: | |
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FM457 Applied Computational Finance (0.0) (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options
* means available with permission
# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.
Footnotes
A : Students may, with the approval of the Programme Director, Associate Programme Director and relevant Course Leaders, take half-units in Macroeconomics and Micreconomics, instead of the full unit EC411, Microeconomics. Students must meet the relevant pre-requisites for the Macroeconomics half unit.
B : Students must have completed either Asset Markets (FM423) and Corporate Finance (FM422), or Financial Economics (FM436)
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