MSc in Finance and Economics

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Programme Code: TMFIEC

Department: Finance

For students starting this programme of study in 2023/24

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. Students are 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.


Paper	Course number, title (unit value)
Introductory Course	EC400 Introductory Course in Mathematics and Statistics (0.0) ^#
Paper 1	EC411 Microeconomics (1.0) ^# or
	EC4B5 Macroeconomics for MSc F&E (0.5) ^# *and* EC4B6 Microeconomics for MSc F&E (0.5) ^# ^* ^A
	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:
	EC413 Macroeconomics (1.0) ^#
Paper 2	FM436 Financial Economics (1.0) ^#
Paper 3	FM437 Financial Econometrics (1.0) ^#
Paper 4	Two half-unit courses from the list below: Students must write the 6000-word dissertation in one of their two chosen courses.
	FM404 Advanced Financial Economics (0.5) ^#
	FM405 Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets (0.5) ^# ^B
	FM406 Topics in Portfolio Management (0.5) ^#
	FM408 Financial Engineering (0.5) ^#
	FM408E Financial Engineering (0.5) ^# (not available 2024/25)
	FM409 Risk Management in Financial Markets (0.5) ^#
	FM409E Risk Management in Financial Markets (0.5) ^# (not available 2024/25)
	FM412 Quantitative Security Analysis (0.5) ^#
	FM421 Finance for Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings (0.5) ^# ¹
	FM471 Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing (0.5) ^# ²
	FM476 Entrepreneurial Finance (0.5) ^# ³
	FM477 International Finance A (0.5) ^#
	FM4T2 Finance for Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings- Dissertation (0.5) ⁴

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.

1 : FM421 can not be taken with FM4T2

2 : FM471 can not be taken with FM476

3 : FM476 can not be taken with FM471

4 : FM4T2 can not be taken with FM421

Footnotes

A : Students may, with the approval of the Programme Director, Associate Programme Director and relevant Course Leaders, take half-units in Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, 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)

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.

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