MSc Finance and Investment

at University of Bristol

This programme offers an exceptionally wide range of units with flexibility to choose what interests you most during term 2. Popular units include Financial Technology where you will learn all about the topical themes of blockchain, peer-to-peer lending and digital finance. Another popular unit is Credit Risk, where you will learn how to practically estimate the risk of a portfolio. This involves using Bloomberg, the main source of live data for traders and asset managers in financial organisations. Our students also have access to other widely-used industry platforms such as Thomson Reuters Eikon. This helps prepare our students with the practical skills necessary for the workplace. We also provide access to databases including CRSP, Refinitiv, Compustat, and newspaper resources including Financial Times and the Economist.
 

You will be taught by world-leading experts in the discipline, regularly publishing in the best finance journals in the world such as the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics. This means that the programme is frequently updated in line with recent advances in academic literature, so you will be learning about cutting-edge finance methods and theory.
 

This programme is aimed at students with good undergraduate degrees in finance, economics or accounting, as well as those with more scientific backgrounds (e.g mathematics, engineering or natural sciences).