Finance

• Strong current industry links with major employers.
• Outstanding facilities include our Trading Floor, which features 42 dual-screen Bloomberg terminals.
• The option to follow one of 3 pathways in your second semester, allowing you the opportunity to tailor your course to your area of chosen interest, while also having the chance to get a solid grounding in financial theory.
• Coventry Business School was ranked ‘Excellent’ in 2019 by Eduniversal, an annual ranking of business schools in more than 150 countries.
• Recognition or accreditation from the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Society UK, the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute, and the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), which could provide you with certain exemptions from professional exams. Please see the Accreditation and Professional Recognition and Exemptions section for further details.
• Innovative, interactive teaching designed to embed professional skills. For example, dependent on the pathway followed, you will practise trading or investment management on our Bloomberg Trading Floor, which incorporates analytical, news and real-time data platforms to give you the chance to gain first-hand experience of these industry-standard tools (subject to availability).
• Opportunity to take part in international experiences as part of the Global Leaders Programme, available to all postgraduate students at Coventry University (subject to competitive application, availability, meeting any applicable visa requirements, and additional fees). Further details on the Global Leaders Programme can be found here.
• Access to market-leading databases such as Thompson-Reuters Eikon, Bloomberg, Bankscope and Datastream (subject to availability).

In Semester One, you will study the follow four mandatory common modules: Corporate Finance; Quantitative Methods; Derivatives; Governance, Accountability and Ethics.

In Semester Two, you can pick one of three pathways, each of which requires you to study four different mandatory modules. This flexibility aims to allow you to focus on the area of finance that most interests you. The three pathways are: Finance; Banking; Investment Management. Please note that the final award for this degree will be MSc Finance, regardless of the pathway chosen, which will not appear on the degree awarded.

In the final semester, all students undertake the Project module and the Global Professional Development module. As part of the Project module, you can either conduct traditional research on a topic of your choice or pursue a consultancy project in the form of a company internship. Consultancy opportunities and internships are subject to availability and a competitive application process, meeting applicable visa requirements, and additional fees may apply.

The Global Professional Development module was developed in partnership with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). It focuses on consultancy and can lead to a professional qualification upon successful completion. Please see the Accreditation and Professional Recognition Section for further details.

Past graduates have gone on to work in varied roles, such as a:

• Financial Planning Analyst for City Bank Indonesia
• Senior Finance Officer for Royal Jordanian Airlines
• Financial Administrator for Bank of China