With immense power to affect organisations, economies and the day-to-day lives of everyday people, our banks and financial systems play a vital role in maintaining stability throughout the world. A career in this sector is filled with exciting and important challenges to right the wrongs of the recession and develop new innovative ways to do business. Our course features the advanced learning you need to embark on a stimulating career in the financial sector, with an emphasis on international systems, banking institutions and securities markets to give you a relevant and contemporary edge in today's competitive jobs market. At Middlesex, we value skills training as highly as we value theory, so you can expect to not only learn the advanced concepts behind banking and finance but the practical ways in which you can use this knowledge within your profession. Our modules are specifically structured to give you plenty of time to utilise large amounts of data and explore complex subjects to their fullest, ensuring that you emerge from the course with a thorough understanding of domestic and international banking, economics and investment together with a practical knowledge of key quantitative concepts. Many of our inspiring academics are involved in pioneering research and consultancy themselves, so they are perfectly placed within the industry to advise you in your own research during the course. MSc Banking and Finance – Two 30 credit modules, four 15 credit modules plus a dissertation The MSc goes one step further than a PG Dip to allow you the opportunity to bring together the knowledge and skills developed throughout the course and apply them to an original research project. This is a chance for you to extend your knowledge of a selected topic and to apply it to the formulation and design of a substantive investigation.

This Banking and Finance course is for those who wish to progress into public and private sectors in the areas of investment banking, corporate banking, financial regulation, investment management, equity, foreign markets, corporate treasury management, derivatives and risk management. Our graduates have gone on to work in a wide range of roles at companies including Barclays, RBS, Tradewise and the Bank of England.