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Finance – (M.Sc.)
Imperial College London
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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 30,800 - | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Our one year full-time MSc Finance receives special recognition through being a CFA partner with the CFA Institute. This means that, as a graduate of the programme, you benefit from an enhanced profile amongst employers. With 70% of the CFA qualification body of knowledge contained in the MSc Finance curriculum, you will also benefit from a head start to the internationally recognised CFA qualification.
The MSc Finance, now in its tenth year, equips you with a strong foundation in the theoretical underpinnings of finance, and at the same provides the experience and skills that employers demand. Top companies pursue our graduates for their excellent technical training, with approximately 60% moving onto careers in investment banking.
The MSc Finance is a highly technical programme starting in October. It comprises eight taught modules and a dissertation. Five of the modules are core courses and are taken during the first two terms. The three elective modules are taken during the spring and summer terms. Students devote the summer term to the completion of a 10,000 word project. A strong academic background in a quantitative discipline (e.g. economics, engineering, mathematics) is essential.
Studying for an MSc Finance at Imperial College London offers you:
* International reputation - our world-renowned faculty have international research reputations, consult for global corporations and advise financial firms. Industry expertise helps you to grasp the subtle interaction between theory and practice and means the programme reflects exactly what employers are looking for.
* Excellence - our MSc Finance is one of a limited number of programmes internationally to be a CFA partner of the CFA Institute
* Cutting edge thinking - research is extensive, internationally recognised and forms an important component of our teaching. You will have the opportunity to access the latest thinking before it is even published.
* Access to the City - Imperial College is at the heart of London, one of the world's leading financial centres.
* Career acceleration - the MSc Finance programme has a strong reputation amongst employers. Our Career Development Service provide a programme of personal and professional career development akin to that found on MBA programmes. Recent graduates have secured careers with companies such as Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, ING, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan.
Our students go on to pursue exceptional careers in the financial sector. They want to be challenged and to investigate an intellectually interesting subject. They all have a strong academic background in a quantitative discipline. This could be from a first degree in a mathematics, science or engineering subject, or from quantitative courses in economics or finance.
Contents
Corporate finance is at the heart of investment banking and crucial to running a successful business in any sector. In this course you cover all the key elements of company finance, valuation and risk management.
Topics include:
* Capital structure and corporate value
* The use of option pricing in capital budgeting
* Mergers and acquisitions
* Risk management and corporate strategy
* Dividend policy
By the end of the course you’ll understand how to assess individual investment projects, value companies, and evaluate the sources of finance available to companies.
Mathematics for Finance Success in modern finance, whether mergers and acquisitions, derivative asset pricing, optimal portfolio choice or risk management, is unthinkable without a solid grasp of mathematics. This course introduces you to a range of essential mathematical tools and their financial applications.
Topics include:
* Calculus and its applications in finance
* Probability theory and its applications in finance
* Arbitrage theory in finance - one period model
* Dynamically complete markets in discrete time
* Continuous time finance: partial differential equations and Ito's formula
By the end of the course you’ll be able to build dynamic asset price models in discrete and continuous time, construct dynamically optimal portfolios and price derivative securities. You’ll have a good understanding of stochastic calculus and a complete command of Ito's formula, ready to excel in any area of finance.
Financial Econometrics This course will acquaint you with a range of modern econometric techniques which are an essential part of modern advanced empirical research. The course will be taught through a series of formal lectures, class and computer based exercises.
Topics include:
* Statistics and regression analysis
* ARCH and GARCH estimation
* Panel data estimation
* Instrumental variables
* Time series forecasting
By the end of the course you’ll be able to analyse data from any source using a wide variety of techniques.
Advanced Financial Econometrics This course introduces you to more complex econometric techniques which are an essential part of modern advanced empirical research.
Topics include:
* Monte Carlo methods and Simulation
* Nonparametric density estimation and regression
* Autoregressive models
* Stable limit and extreme value theory
* Diffusion and other continuous time processes
By the end of the course you’ll be able to analyse data from any source using a wide variety of techniques.
Investment and Portfolio Management This course provides you with a critical understanding of important portfolio management techniques used for investments and portfolio management by hedge funds, asset managers, investment banks and other financial institutions. One of the strengths of the course is that it is accompanied by case studies and realistic practical examples that you are asked to solve each week using Matlab. Moreover the course covers pricing and predictability of a large range of asset classes including equities, bonds, foreign exchange, commodities and hedge funds.
Topics include:
* The term structure
* Applied interest rate analysis
* Mean-variance portfolio theory
* The CAPM Fundamentals of pricing theory
By th e end of the course you’ll be able to implement trading strategies and portfolio construction methods in a wide range of assets including equities, bonds, foreign exchange, commodities and derivatives such as swaps and futures.
Asset Pricing and Derivatives Valuation techniques for financial derivatives are a core component of the skills necessary for a career in a modern financial insti tution. You’ll learn to develop and apply the techniques learnt in Investments and Portfolio Management to the pricing of a range of financial derivatives and to the determination interest rates at different maturities.
Topics include:
* Forwards, swaps and futures
* Options: basics
* Options in continuous-time
* Interest rate derivatives
* Models of the yield curve
By the end of the course you’ll have an in-depth understanding of important valuation techniques applicable in a variety of financial markets and sought after by prospective employers.
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Register Now!Requirements
The MSc Finance programme is suited to recent graduates wishing to launch their career in the finance sector. Applicants with substantial financial experience may be more suited to other programmes offered by the Business School.
Academic requirement
To be eligible for entry onto the MSc Finance programme you need a good undergraduate degree (normally an upper second class honours degree from a UK institution, or the equivalent international qualification) in a quantitative subject.
Our aim is to recruit students with a strong academic background in mathematics, statistics and/or econometrics. This may have been gained from an undergraduate degree in mathematics, science, engineering, finance or economics.
Please note that we are unable to provide advice on the corresponding minimum entry requirements for overseas degrees; please ask your university to advise you on whether your degree results are likely to be considered as equivalent to our minimum 2:1 honours degree requirement.
There is no GMAT requirement for the MSc Finance programme.
English language requirement
All students are required to hold an English language qualification, of a higher standard than the College minimum requirement. Acceptable qualifications include:
* GCSE, IGCSE, GCE `O´ Level or equivalent at grade C
* Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) at grade C.
* IELTS: A minimum score of 7 with a score of 6 or better in written and spoken English.
* TOEFL: A minimum score of 610 (or 253 in the computer-based test) with a minimum score of 4.5 in written English. For the internet-based test we require 98 overall, including a minimum of 25 in the written section and 23 in the speaking section.
Please note that this requirement is equally applicable to Home, EU and Overseas students. It may be possible to waive the Tanaka Business School higher language requirement element under exceptional circumstances at the discretion of the School. ALL applications MUST meet the College minimum requirement.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 7.0 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 610 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 253 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 98 |
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