
Ahmad Haboub
Senior Lecturer in Financial Accounting
Faculty of Business and Law
DiscoverLevel:
Postgraduate
Duration:
Full Time: 1 Year
Starting:
September
UK Fees 23/24:
Full Time: £8,010
International Fees 23/24:
Full Time: £16,500
Location:
For questions regarding study and admissions please contact us:
study@northampton.ac.uk
0300 303 2772
MSc Financial and Investment Analysis will develop you into a specialist investment professional that can take up challenging roles in investment banking, risk management and fund management. This programme will prepare you to write the CFA® professional exams.
This course has an Industry Placement Option.
Updated 24/05/2023
MSc Financial and Investment Analysis provides in-depth theoretical and practical skills for specialist roles in the finance and investment industry. You will develop analytical and critical skills which enables you to tackle simulated real-life problems and challenges in the finance industry. Grounded in ethical and responsible approaches, this programme is aligned to investment and risk management professional bodies and responds to the demands and challenges of the dynamic financial services industry.
Exemptions are available from main professional bodies – Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
The industry placement enables you to develop your skills and knowledge in a real-world work environment, whilst completing an applied research project. This will give you an advantage over the competition for jobs and scholarships after you graduate and could be a good starting point for setting up your own consultancy business.
Your placement will need to be appropriate to your level of study and you should also be paid for this work. We will support you in finding and securing a suitable placement opportunity, however it must be noted that placements are highly competitive and there is no guarantee of a placement offer being made by an employer.
If you are unable or unwilling to progress with an industry placement, for whatever reason, you will have the option to transfer onto our Dissertation and Research Methods module in order to gain the required credits to complete your programme of study.
Module information for the Placement route can be found on the MSc Financial and Investment Analysis (Placement Route) Award Map.
Please note the modules shown here relate to the academic year 22/23. The modules relating to the academic year 23/24 will be available from June 2023.
If you hold a recognised first or second class honours degree from a UK university or international equivalent in finance, banking, accounting or a related discipline then you will be eligible to apply for this course. If you hold professional qualifications you will also be considered for entry onto this course.
All International and EU students applying for a course with us must meet the following minimum English language requirements:
For information regarding English language requirements at the University, please see our IELTS page.
Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 23/24 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.
For information on the scholarships available to you, please see our scholarships page.
There are no additional costs for this course for students beginning their studies in September 2023. Should this change, applicants and students will be contacted by the university with details of the costs.
Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 22/23 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.
Typically you will have 10 hours (approx) of contact time with your tutors in the first semester and 12 hours (approx) in the second semester. Overall you will spend 108 hours per module in self-directed study (reading and research).
The course uses a combination of assessment methods including reports, case studies, time constrained tests and examinations, plus your dissertation.
Semester One
You will be introduced to some of the main themes in financial and Investments, this is in the context of utilising investment analysis and risk management. Modules in semester one will highlight the principles of investment analysis and ethics & professional standards.
Semester Two
You will examine how investment decisions can be applied in the wider social context. You will also study the way in ethics and professional standards apply to investment decision making.
Semester Three
The research proposal produced in Semester two will guide the development of a clearly defined and evidenced study proposal, a critical review of relevant literature, and a robust methodology. Data is then collected, analysed, interpreted and applied to the study proposal and a 15,000 word research report (dissertation) is produced, with the support of a dissertation supervisor.
You will have access to several resources and databases such as;
We offer a generous 20% tuition fee discount on postgraduate courses for graduates who studied their undergraduate degree at the University of Northampton.
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Faculty of Business and Law
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DiscoverGraduates of this programme which complete the professional exams can expect to take up roles within Asset Management, Accounting and Finance, Investment Banking (Mergers & Acquisition), Wealth Management, Equities, Private Equity, Risk Management, Research, Corporate Banking, Consulting, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Hedge Funds and Information Technology.