Imperial College Business School
MSc Finance
The one-year full-time highly quantitative MSc Finance is the first London taught programme to be both designated as a Centre of Excellence for Finance by the Securities and Investment Institute (SII) and awarded partner programme status by the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA). This means that graduates of the programme benefit from an enhanced profile amongst employers. With the MSc Finance curriculum containing 70 per cent of the CFA curriculum, you benefit from a head start to the internationally recognised CFA qualification. You will also benefit from exemption from the SII's examinations.
The MSc Finance comprises nine taught modules and a 10,000-word project. Six 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. You will devote the summer to the completion of the project.
A strong academic background in a quantitative discipline (e.g. mathematics, statistics, econometrics, engineering) is essential.
Core modules
- Online pre-study courses
- Corporate finance
- Mathematical techniques in finance
- Statistics and financial econometrics
- Empirical finance
- Asset pricing and derivatives
- Investments and portfolio management
Elective modules
- Advanced corporate finance
- Advanced options theory
- Credit risk
- Financial statement analysis
- Fixed-income securities
- International finance
- Private equity and entrepreneurship
- Venture capital finance and innovation
- Advanced credit derivatives and structured products
- Finance of regulated industries
- Hedge funds
- Numerical finance with C++
- Advanced numerical finance with C++
- VBA and C++ workshops
