MSc Fintech, Risk and Investment Analysis
University of Sussex Business School
Key Information
Campus location
Brighton, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
1 year
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
GBP 23,000 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* full-time international students | £13,135/year for full-time home/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students
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Introduction
Key information
- Duration: 1-year full time
- Start date: September 2023
- Apply by: 1 August 2023 (international), 1 September 2023 (UK)
This highly practical course is designed to meet the challenges of today’s financial markets. You have the opportunity to specialise in financial technology (fintech).
You’ll learn from academic staff who are globally renowned for their teaching excellence and extensive industry experience.
Our curriculum is designed in consultation with major professional bodies including the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (CISI).
Accreditation
The University of Sussex Business School is accredited by EQUIS, the most comprehensive institutional accreditation system for business and management schools. Accreditation ensures rigorous quality control, benchmarking against international standards and is acknowledged worldwide.
Career Opportunities
Our graduates are well prepared to enter any employment involving quantitative finance, from large businesses to boutique finance and trading houses. Recruiters include banks, corporate treasury, hedge funds, investment trusts and any firm requiring an in-depth and practical education.
To give you a significant head start in your future career, you’ll be paired with a mentor whose career path matches your own ambitions, who will share their industry expertise with you and give you career guidance.
On successful completion of this MSc, you are qualified to apply for graduate training positions as:
- A quantitative risk analyst;
- A quantitative investment analyst;
- An asset manager in a bank, corporation, hedge fund or insurance company.
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Curriculum
We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2023/24. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to COVID-19, or due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. It may not be possible to take some module combinations due to timetabling constraints. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
Autumn teaching
- Blockchains and Cryptoassets
- Essential Quantitative Finance
- Financial Instruments
Spring teaching
- Financial Derivatives
- Market and Credit Risk Analysis
Spring and summer teaching
- Portfolio Management
Summer teaching
- Empirical Research Project
Options
Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research.
While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.
Autumn teaching
- Corporate Finance
- Data Science Research Methods
Spring teaching
- Advanced Financial Modelling
- Ethics and Organisations: Responsibility and Justice
- Financial Crises and Bank Regulation
- Machine Learning
We’ll make all reasonable efforts to provide you with the courses, services and facilities described in this prospectus. However, we may need to make changes due to significant disruption, for example in response to COVID-19.
Admissions
Rankings
- 1st in the UK for annual research income in 2020/21 (Chartered Association of Business Schools)
- 13th in the UK for Business and Economics (The Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2022)
- Top 25 in the UK (QS World University Rankings: Masters in Finance Rankings 2023)
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
We are pleased to announce that all international applicants, who study a full-time master's course at the University of Sussex Business School, will receive a £2,000 Award towards their overseas tuition fee.
We want to do our best to make sure that all international students have the opportunity to study at our EQUIS and AMBA-accredited schools.