Start date: September 2022
Duration: 12 months full-time
Fees: UK/EU/Overseas - £34,100
Application deadline: Applications will open on 02 December 2021 and close on 31 May 2022 (this is subject to change if the programme is filled before this date).
CAS numbers: For more information regarding Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) numbers for international students, please contact us.
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The UCL Finance MSc is a specialist master’s degree designed for those targeting finance as a professional career.
This full-time programme is delivered by UCL School of Management and UCL’s Department of Economics, providing a study of finance underpinned by a blend of quantitative and qualitative components. It is based in UCL School of Management’s new home in Canary Wharf, the heart of London’s dynamic financial centre. It aims to provide individuals with the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable them to engage with specialist roles in the modern global financial industry. Such roles are likely to be located in a range of organisations, including banks, asset management companies, investment and hedge funds, insurance companies, rating agencies, broker/dealers, and large, medium, and boutique financial companies.
Why Choose Us
UCL is one of the world’s best universities, consistently placed in the global top 20 in a wide variety of world rankings.
Our Finance programme is unique in the UK. The modules provide you with an opportunity to develop strong quantitative and analytical skills, an in-depth understanding of how companies work, and a rigorous foundation in the key skills needed to build successful careers in global businesses.
The programme is delivered jointly by the School of Management and the Department of Economics.
UCL School of Management offers innovative undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes to prepare people for leadership roles in the next generation of innovation-intensive organisations. The School works closely with global companies and innovative start-ups at the cutting edge of management and associated finance-related practice. The research performed in the UCL School of Management was rated as “world-leading” by the Research Excellent Framework (REF). The proportion of the School’s research rated as world-leading (4*) was the highest in the UK, together with London Business School and ahead of Imperial, LSE, Oxford and Cambridge.
The Department of Economics is the top department of economics in the United Kingdom (Research Excellence Framework “REF” 2014). The Department of Economics has an outstanding international reputation in key areas of current research. It is the only department of economics in the UK to have received the outstanding grade-point average of 3.78 (out of 4) in the 2014 REF with 79% of all indicators of output rated at the highest 4* level. The REF 2014 has ranked the Department of Economics at UCL as the top Department in the UK in the field of Economics and Econometrics, the top Department at UCL, and the top Department in any field in any university in the UK.
The Department gives students a thorough knowledge of cutting-edge techniques in theoretical and applied economics, utilising robust quantitative underpinnings.
