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Governance & Accountability – (M.Sc.)

University of Glasgow

Business School
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Annual Tuition Fee: ≈ € 5,290 - ≈ € 13,520 (non-EEA)
Location: Glasgow / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴
Duration: 12 months Start Date: September
Educational Form:
  • Taught
Education Variants:
  • Fulltime
Languages: English 
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ur staff have close connections to the accounting and finance profession, with, for example, staff serving on the Accounting Standards Board, as Advisor to the House of Lords, as well as on various committees of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Our staff also act as advisors to the Economic & Social Sciences Research Council, the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council.

* MSc: 12 months full-time

Teaching is through a combination of lectures, seminars and tutorials. The programme combines finance with governance in the first semester, while in the second semester you will have an opportunity to specialise in law, management, ethics, or to engage in further studies in accountancy or finance.

Core courses

* International corporate finance
* Management accounting and control
* International corporate governance and accountability
* Research methods.

Optional courses

* Accounting and business ethics
* Competition economics and law
* Governing risk and resilience
* Human rights and business
* Audit risk and control
* Social accounting, reporting and finance.

You will also complete a dissertation of around 12,000 words.


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Entry requirements are a 2.1 Honours degree or non-UK equivalent qualification (for example, GPA 3.0 or above); the subject matter is not important, but accounting/finance students will be at an advantage. Some skill at mathematics is desirable.

If your first language is not English, the University sets a minimum English Language proficiency level


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