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Economics and Finance – (M.Sc.)
Durham University
Durham Business School
| Application Deadline: | before the end of May | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 9,638 - ≈ € 18,709 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Durham / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Durham University
Our MSc Finance programmes are widely acknowledged as being among the strongest in the UK. These one-year, full-time postgraduate degrees are designed to help you acquire a strong foundation of knowledge and to develop the analytical skills necessary for a career in the financial sector.
Our reputation is enhanced by first class teaching faculty and cutting-edge research of international standing, ensuring you are kept abreast of the latest thinking in finance.
We currently offer the following MSc degrees:
* Accounting and Finance
* Corporate and International Finance
* Economics and Finance
* Finance
* Finance and Investment
* International Banking and Finance
* International Money, Finance and Investment.
Career enhancement A Durham Business School masters degree will help you gain a competitive edge in an over-crowded job market. If you are a recent graduate it will help you develop skills and knowledge directly relevant to your employers' needs. For those already in a career it will build on existing experience to help give your career a boost, or provide you with a platform for career change.
Contents
The MSc degrees consist of nine taught modules and a dissertation. The table below sets out which modules are compulsory and which are optional for each degree route.
If you are intending to pursue the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) professional qualification, you will be interested to know that all our MSc programmes have partnership status with the CFA Institute and cover more than 70 per cent of the curriculum of all three levels of the CFA Programme.
Compulsory modules
* Advanced Financial Theory
* Advanced Macroeconomics
* Advanced Microeconomics
* Corporate Finance Econometrics 1
* Econometrics 2
* Research Methods
* Dissertation
Optional modules
* Behavioural Finance
* Derivative Markets
* Environmental Economics and Policy
* Financial Risk Management
* International Economics
* International Finance
* International Financial Asset Management
* Mergers & Acquisitions
* Monetary Economics
* Portfolio Management
* Public Economics
* Security Analysis
Dissertation
The MSc programme culminates in a 9,000 word dissertation which provides an opportunity for you to investigate in greater detail a subject that you have already studied as part of your MSc programme. The work will enable you to exercise critical judgement and illustrate how economic analysis has relevance to financial decision taking.
You will be expected to deal with your chosen topic in a competent and scholarly manner, and to display critical discrimination and a sense of proportion in evaluating evidence and the opinions of others.
The dissertation is a stimulating and challenging part of the MSc programme and a major piece of independent work.
IELTS
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The masters programmes are intended for new and recent graduates. You should have a strong background in a related discipline and your first degree should have a substantial economics and statistics content.
Normal entry requirements for an MSc programme are:
* A good Upper Second class honours degree or overseas equivalent, in a relevant discipline.
* Evidence on your degree transcript of strong grades in statistical modules in your 2nd, 3rd or 4th year.
* Evidence of competence in written and spoken English if your first language is not English. * The minimum TOEFL requirement is 92 IBT (no element under 22).
* We ask for an IELTS score of 6.5 overall with no element under 6.0.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 92 |
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