Financial Economics

Entry requirements

2:1 Honours degree or non-UK equivalent (eg, a GPA of 3.0 or above) in Economics, Finance, Engineering, Physics, or another highly mathematical discipline. International students with academic qualifications below those required should contact our partner institution, Glasgow International College, who offer a range of pre-Masters courses.

Months of entry

September

Course content

This programme offers training in the key macroeconomic and microeconomic issues fundamental to financial decision making. It draws on the most recent developments in these areas.

Why Glasgow

• The programme draws on the most recent developments in financial economics, giving you a strong foundation for PhD research and providing you with the tools to gain employment in a wide range of spheres.

• The Adam Smith Business School has been ranked in the top 10 worldwide for economics and finance (RePEc), with two of our academics rated in the top 1%.

• The Adam Smith Business School celebrates the legacy of Adam Smith by developing enlightened, enterprising and engaged graduates and internationally-recognised research with real social impact.

Programme Structure

You will take four core courses, two optional courses and complete a substantial independent piece of work, normally in the form of a dissertation, on a topical business, finance or management related issue.

Teaching is provided by lectures. Technical subjects are supported by weekly or fortnightly tutorials, which provide opportunities for you to engage with issues and questions in a group format. Some courses also involve lab sessions in which you will use specialised software, for instance in the study of econometrics.

Core Courses

• Basic econometrics
• Economic fundamentals and financial markets
• Macroeconomics
• Microeconomics

Optional Courses

• Applied computational finance
• Behavioural economics: theory and applications
• C++ in finance (Mathematical finance is a co-requisite for this course)
• Corporate finance and theory
• Empirical asset pricing (Basic econometrics or Portfolio analysis and investment or Economic fundamentals and financial markets are co-requisites for this course)
• Financial market micro structure
• Financial sector stability and growth
• Foreign direct investment and development
• Game theory with applications in economics and finance
• Intermediate econometrics
• International financial management
• Investment, finance and asset prices
• Mathematical finance
• Modelling and forecasting financial markets
• Money, finance and growth
• Public finance

Information for international students

The University of Glasgow welcomes students from over 100 different countries. For applicants whose first language is not English, the University normally sets a minimum English Language proficiency level. Visit: http://www.gla.ac.uk/international/englishlanguagerequirements/ for details.

Fees and funding

http://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/financialeconomics/

Qualification and course duration

MSc

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