Senior Investment and Commercial Banking Professional Apprenticeship PgDip + MSc
Cranfield, United Kingdom
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
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TUITION FEES
GBP 21,000 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The Senior Investment and Commercial Banking Professional Apprenticeship provides a unique opportunity for you to gain an advanced-level understanding of a wide range of management functions and to develop specialist knowledge in economics, finance, and sustainable development goals relevant to the financial services sector.
This program will provide you with the foundations of the various dimensions of retail banking and several aspects of general management, such as analysis of the economic environment, financial management, organizational management, strategic marketing, and business strategy, and aims to improve your critical awareness of management and organizations.
In addition, the work-based project allows you to tackle a substantial task within your organization under the guidance of academic supervisors. Through responsible practical application, it will also enable you to advance your knowledge and skills so you can contribute towards a more sustainable retail banking industry and perform effectively and efficiently in the highly competitive and fast-changing retail and digital banking sector, which is also challenged to become more sustainable.
Drawing on faculty from across Cranfield School of Management, the program is led by Cranfield’s Economics and Banking Group, which has been consistently ranked UK top 10 in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking for its teaching of economics in relation to our full-time MBA program.
Additionally, this program provides employer organizations the ability to sponsor multiple high-potential employees. It will be particularly attractive to financial institutions that want to use their apprenticeship levy to develop their early career employees in retail banking.
Why this course?
- Develop specialist knowledge in economics, finance, and sustainable development goals relevant to the financial services sector.
- The program will improve your critical awareness of management and organizations, and enhance your skills to successfully address financial and management challenges within your organization.
- A workplace-based project provides the opportunity for you to tackle a substantial product management task within your organization, under the guidance of academic supervisors.
- You will benefit from a combination of online and face-to-face teaching, providing you with the flexibility to work around existing commitments.
- Not only will this MSc broaden and deepen your professional network, but you'll also join Cranfield’s active alumni network of 75,000 managers and leaders across the globe.
- This MSc incorporates the School of Management’s experiences and learning from our UK top 10 ranked Master’s in Finance and Management: QS World University Rankings: Masters in Finance ranking 2022 and our Management MSc ranked UK top 10 in the Financial Times: Masters in Management 2021 ranking.
Overview
- Duration: 2 years part-time
- Qualification: MSc, PgDip
- Study Type: part-time
- Campus: Cranfield campus, Online
Ideal Students
- Self-motivated individuals with technical backgrounds (e.g. IT, mathematics, etc.) who wish to gain a good knowledge of finance, management, and retail banking.
- Experienced professionals with a background in finance, who wish to have a detailed understanding of the link between finance, management, and technology in financial services.
Admissions
Curriculum
This MSc course comprises 12 intensive taught modules and an in-company project. You will have the equivalent of 14 days of blended learning delivered across each year. This is primarily online and synchronous, with a maximum of five days of face-to-face contact.
You will undertake both a group consulting project and an in-company project and will be expected to present your findings to senior managers from the organization involved.
Upon completion of the program, you will be ready to advance your career within the retail and digital banking sector and contribute to the enhancement of your organization's sustainable performance.
Course Delivery
Taught modules 65%, organisation-based project 35%
Compulsory Modules
- Economics of Sustainable Financial Services
- Accounting for Business
- Financial Markets, Regulation and Ethics
- Digital Banking
- Financial Management
- Organizational Behaviour for Managers
- Sustainable Retail Banking
- Sustainable Banking Research in Action
- Program and Project Management
- New Product and Service Development
- Strategic Marketing
- Modeling and Analysis for Management
Keeping our courses up-to-date and current requires constant innovation and change. The modules we offer reflect the needs of business and industry and the research interests of our staff. As a result, they may change or be withdrawn due to research developments, legislation changes, or a variety of other reasons. Changes may also be designed to improve the student learning experience or to respond to feedback from students, external examiners, accreditation bodies, and industrial advisory panels.
To give you a taster, we have detailed the compulsory and elective (where applicable) modules that are currently affiliated with this course. All modules are indicative only and may be subject to change for your year of entry.
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