This rigorous MSc Financial Management programme gives you a strong grounding in core financial disciplines, including:

• finance
• banking
• regulation
• risk management
• financial theory

There is a strong emphasis on applying specialist knowledge and skills to real-world business scenarios. You will become adept at analysing financial information and its application within an organisation.

You’ll develop a critical understanding of:

• how capital markets operate
• how companies are valued
• how markets shape the financial manager’s operating context
• how companies can protect themselves against risk and uncertainty

It has an international perspective, with key modules on Corporate Finance and International Finance, broadening your graduate career options. Graduates progress into careers in finance, within both financial and non-financial institutions.

We regularly invite external experts from academia and industry as speakers to further enhance the relevance of classroom discussion and study, and provide a meaningful context to events and trends in the sector.

You’ll learn from a diverse, international, and highly experienced teaching faculty with established credentials in research and business applications.

The MSc in Financial Management would equip students with the knowledge and understanding of the fundamental principles of financial management, which are relevant to business organisations.

The focus of the programme is to promote a critical understanding of how capital markets operate, how companies are valued, how markets shape the financial manager’s operating context, and how companies can protect themselves against risk and uncertainty.

Please note that for 2019 entry, the module information is subject to change.

Modules

Core

Business Economics (AFE7011-A)

Foundations of Finance (AFE7015-A)

Accounting and Finance (AFE7014-A)

International Banking (AFE7035-A)

Portfolio Management (AFE7019-A)

Quantitative Methods in Finance (AFE7020-A)

Derivatives Pricing and Risk Management (AFE7016-A)

Financial Services and Regulation (AFE7030-A)

International Finance (AFE7024-A)

Corporate Financial Management (AFE7025-A)

Dissertation (MSc Finance) (MAL7006-E)

Elective 

Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation (AFE7023-A)

Financial Risk Management in European Banking (AFE7001-A)*

*As part of the School’s exchange agreement with Toulouse Business School
(France), students have the opportunity to study a module in ‘Financial Risk Management in European Banking’ in Toulouse each year. Travel and maintenance costs are additional.

Option

Contemporary Issues in Accounting and Finance (AFE7021-A)

Strategic Accounting (AFE7012-A)

You must have a degree at UK 2:2 (or equivalent), not necessarily in business and management, from an approved university.

Exceptional candidates without the usual academic qualifications but with appropriate professional qualifications and work experience may be admitted on their merit.

There is no requirement for previous work experience.

English language requirements:

If we need evidence of your proficiency in English, you will be required to achieve the following minimum scores in one of these recognised tests:

IELTS: 6.0 overall, with no more than one sub-test at 5.0 and no other sub-test below 5.5, and successful completion of an additional six week English pre-sessional course taught by the University of Bradford, which must be completed prior to the start of the course; or

IELTS: 6.5 overall, with no sub-test less than 5.5; or 

Internet-based TOEFL: 94 overall, with minimum scores of Listening 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20, Writing 17); or 

PTE-A (Pearson Test of English-Academic): 60 overall, with no sub-test less than 51.

Candidates who are not citizens of the European Union will also be subject to further requirements imposed by the government for the issue of a student visa. Please check the UK Home Office website for the most up-to-date information, as these requirements are subject to change.

If you do not meet the IELTS requirement, you can take a University of Bradford pre-sessional English course. See the Language Centre for more details »

Home/EU: £10,527

International: £16,040

We are proud to be in an elite group of business schools to hold the triple accreditations of Equis, AMBA and AACSB, often referred to as the "Triple Crown".

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) accredit this programme. This means that, by successfully completing your degree, you are eligible for exemptions from some ACCA fundamental level examinations.