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The University of Essex is one of the UK's leading academic institutions, ranked ninth nationally for research excellence following the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
MSc Financial Decision Making with Applications complements our MSc Mathematics and Finance and was introduced to fill the gap between traditional financial analysts and new traders who are taking on board cognitive psychology, as well as mathematical methods, to manage risk attached to financial decision making.
We include modules in mathematics, accounting, management and finance, and psychology, which provide you with the opportunity to learn about portfolio management, the application of stochastic calculus to the pricing of derivative securities, and the analysis of financial statements and financial reporting. Our range of optional modules enable you to follow one of many possible structures to meet your needs. Further concentration on a specific application is possible when you choose your dissertation subject where, with the agreement of your supervisor, you formulate a project undertaken over the summer.
Graduates gain many essential employment skills required by the business and finance world which include the analysis of financial statements, financial reporting and analytic reasoning, as well as other key skills like presentation, essay writing and computing.
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A Masters course is an academically rigorous programme during which you explore your subject in depth, reaching a high level of specialist knowledge. You draw on knowledge and skills from your undergraduate study or your professional life to produce work of a high academic standard, informed by current thinking and debate.
A Masters course lasts for twelve months (full-time), starting in October, and consists of taught modules during your autumn and spring terms, and normally a research-based dissertation or other project-based work submitted in September. Your balance of modules and research varies according to the subject but, typically, your research counts for 60 credits and there are 120 credits of modules, varying from 10 to 40 credits each. (If you are from the EU, then our Masters courses are regarded as second-cycle qualifications under the Bologna Declaration and consist of 90 ECTS credits).
In some subjects, Postgraduate or Graduate Certificates and Diplomas are available, which last for six to nine months (full-time) and consist of 60 or 120 credits, respectively. These include the modules and assessed work of a Masters, without a dissertation. Our Graduate Diplomas equip those with a Bachelors with knowledge to proceed to a Masters in a different subject.
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.
Modules
Core modules
* Dissertation
* Research Methods
Compulsory modules
* Financial Decision Making
Optional modules
* Applied Statistics
* Asset Pricing
* Bank Strategy And Risk
* Bayesian Computational Statistics
* Behavioural Finance
* Corporate Reporting And Analysis
* Derivative Securities
* Financial Derivatives
* Nonlinear Programming
* Ordinary Differential Equations
* Portfolio Management
* Statistical Methods
* Stochastic Processes
* Time Series Econometrics
Core modules must be taken and passed.
Core with options modules selected from limited lists must be taken and passed.
Compulsory modules must be taken.
Compulsory with options modules selected from limited lists must be taken.
Optional modules are selected from course specific lists.
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