Durham,
United Kingdom
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
MSc Finance (Financial Technology and Banking) in Durham United Kingdom | Durham University
Durham University
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Durham United Kingdom
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Qualification
Masters Degree (Taught)
Languages
English
Delivery Mode
On-Campus
Tuition (2025)
GBP
32,750
(c. USD43,824.41)
Attendance
Full-time
Full-time Duration
12 months
The MSc in Finance (Financial Technology and Banking) specializes in a crucial finance sector that impacts daily life and influences business decisions worldwide. This program provides essential skills and expertise to thrive in this dynamic financial field.
You'll develop cutting-edge analytical abilities, technical competencies, and research methodologies to tackle real-world financial challenges in an engaging academic setting. Our curriculum emphasizes equitable financial systems and universal access to financial services - principles valued by top financial institutions and doctoral programs globally.
This intensive 12-month program offers core and elective modules, concluding with either a practical business project or research dissertation based on your academic focus.
Combining lectures, seminars, and hands-on training, you'll explore contemporary topics like fintech, bank management, financial software, banking intermediation, and econometric analysis.
Our program holds partnership status with the CFA Institute, the premier global organization for investment professionals and the recognized standard for financial market expertise.
The School provides extensive database resources, including real-time and historical data from Bloomberg, Capital IQ, Thomson Reuters, DataStream, and Orbis. These sophisticated tools enable you to analyze financial records of global corporations and enhance your research capabilities.
You'll learn from enthusiastic finance scholars dedicated to exploring finance's role in individual lives and global systems. Graduates emerge prepared for rewarding careers in finance, banking, or related research fields.
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Language Requirements
English
IELTS 6.5
Qualification Requirements
We aim to have a diverse student body and recognise that we can only offer places to a finite number of applicants. To help achieve our aim, we look to ensure we offer places to applicants from all nationalities and close applications when we receive the allocated numbers.
The Masters in Finance programme is designed for new or recent graduates. Certain routes within the Masters in Finance programme may also be of interest to those who already have practical experience in the field of finance. Prospective candidates must hold qualifications equivalent to a UK first or upper second-class honours degree in any discipline. Applicants are also expected to have strong quantitative skills for the programme, which includes fundamental concepts of calculus and statistics. Therefore, having studied a relevant mathematics/quantitative module at university level or a minimum of A level Mathematics (or its equivalent) is a prerequisite for prospective candidates.
For applicants whose first language is not English: a minimum score of 6.5 in IELTS, with no element below 6.0, or a minimum score of 92 in TOEFL, with no element below 23, or an equivalent qualification.
The Masters in Finance programme is designed for new or recent graduates. Certain routes within the Masters in Finance programme may also be of interest to those who already have practical experience in the field of finance. Prospective candidates must hold qualifications equivalent to a UK first or upper second-class honours degree in any discipline. Applicants are also expected to have strong quantitative skills for the programme, which includes fundamental concepts of calculus and statistics. Therefore, having studied a relevant mathematics/quantitative module at university level or a minimum of A level Mathematics (or its equivalent) is a prerequisite for prospective candidates.
For applicants whose first language is not English: a minimum score of 6.5 in IELTS, with no element below 6.0, or a minimum score of 92 in TOEFL, with no element below 23, or an equivalent qualification.
Tuition
GBP
32,750