The MSc course in Corporate Finance from City, University of London will give you the knowledge and skills to navigate the rapidly changing global landscape of corporate finance.
This MSc degree is designed to satisfy your drive to understand how companies manage their investment and financing decisions. In your studies, you will examine questions such as: how financial markets work and how companies access them to finance their operations, what IPOs and mergers and acquisitions are and how they help increase firm value, how to value financial products, such as stocks and derivatives.
What will you learn
- Demonstrate a systematic understanding of corporate finance, as well as financial markets, institutions and instruments
- Understand and critically evaluate current issues in corporate finance from IPOs to debt markets
- Formulate corporate finance decisions aimed at delivering returns to shareholders and delivering superior ROI
- Analyse factors affecting the global flows of corporate finance
- Learn how to network with peers and senior finance professionals in the City of London.
Career
Graduates from the MSc in Corporate Finance move into a diverse range of financial careers including:
- Corporate finance departments at global, international and family firms (e.g. Coca Cola, Unilever, Sinopec, Tata Motors, China Mobile, Ford, SAIC Motor, Marks and Spencer, BP)
- Investment banking and commercial banking (e.g. JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, RBS, China Construction Bank, China Development Bank)
- Management consultancy (e.g. Accenture, IBM, McKinsey)
- Securities sales and trading desks at major finance firms, foreign exchange desks, hedge funds, private banking, asset management, credit products, financial and credit risk management consultancy.
