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MSc - Master of Science
University of Warwick
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
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MSc - Master of Science
University of Warwick
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
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Course Overview
Enhance and develop your background in accounting while exploring theories and cutting-edge techniques in finance on our MSc Accounting and Finance course. Study accounting in its wider social context and examine how accounting and reporting decisions affect markets and companies. Join us and after 12 months in our creative and innovative learning environment you will leave well-equipped for a wide range of careers in international accounting.
Teaching
You will study six compulsory modules and two optional modules of your choice one of which must be from Accounting. Finance modules are taken from our very successful MSc in Finance – one of the UK’s top finance courses as ranked by the Financial Times’ Masters in Finance Pre-experience Ranking 2018.
Contact Hours
Students on this MSc will typically receive between 26 and 30 contact hours per module in the form of lecture seminars and lab sessions.
Assessment
Assessment is a mix of exams and coursework with your 10-12000 word dissertation bringing all your learning together at the end.
Skills from this degree
Careers
Graduates from these courses have gone on to work for employers including: Accenture Amazon Arup BAE Systems BNP Paribas CitiBank Deloitte Delphi European Central Bank GlaxoSmithKline IBM Morgan Stanley Nielsen Rolls-Royce Shell UBS and Unilever. They have pursued roles such as: actuaries; business and financial project management professionals; chief executives and senior officials; economists estimators valuers and assessors finance and investment analysts and advisers investment/merchant bankers and taxation experts.
Students need to have first Class Honours degree or a high 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a related subject.
Students living in
Domestic
£33,200 per year
Students from Domestic
This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
£40,700 per year
Students from EU
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.
£40,700 per year
Students from International
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.