MSc in Banking, Investment and Finance (Distance Learning)

The innovative design of the program and its market led curriculum equips students with relevant, up to date, skills and knowledge in the areas of finance and banking. The goal of the curriculum is to give well-qualified students the analytical and conceptual foundations for future high-level financial executive positions in any country in the world. The program combines the theoretical rigor of financial and banking economics with empirical, real-world aspects of finance, banking and risk management and accounting.

Whilst the program provides students with a robust grounding in finance and banking, the curriculum also encourages critical thinking fosters skills of research, analysis, synthesis, creativity; and ethical behavior.

The teaching method in the program is a mix of distance learning (teleconferences) and active learning techniques. More precisely, the teaching method is participatory and interactive, so that students can develop their interpersonal skills through active participation in the learning process such as relevant to the content videos presentations followed by critical discussions in forum and through the institution of collective work in game simulation, which are the standard method for developing team skills. Moreover, recent research papers and current issues will be discussed in forum.

The plan is achieved through a curriculum of many core courses covering economics, corporate finance, risk management, statistics, mathematics, banking, accounting as well as a sizeable number of elective courses covering real estate finance, market and credit risk management and portfolio management.