If you have a passion for mathematics and quantitative finance, and want to use it to build a lucrative career within financial research, then this is the ideal Masters for you.

Building on your undergraduate studies in a quantitative subject such as economics, accounting or engineering, this course provides a research-orientated approach to finance and investment. You will delve into specialist areas such as econometrics & forecasting, financial markets & institutions, and investments & risk management, and develop advanced analytical and evaluative skills.

You will make extensive use of our Bloomberg trading suite, where our Bloomberg terminals will give you invaluable access to live data from financial markets across the globe.  You’ll use this, combined with our advance econometric packages, to build advance econometric models for the purposes of forecasting, developing trading strategies and examining policy implications for financial markets.

The course is regularly refreshed to keep pace with advances in the financial sector, and is aligned with the syllabus of the CFA Institute.*

The knowledge and experience you gain on this course will allow you to forge a successful research career. You can either progress within academia by continuing onto a PhD, or seek a position within the international financial sector as quantitative research analyst, where they are in high demand.  

*Please note, this course does not provide exemption from/waiver for CFA certification.

Business Clinic

Newcastle Business School operates its own Business Clinic to provide consultancy services to real businesses and organisations in the region, dealing with challenges such as developing an internet marketing strategy or investigating international market opportunities for a new product. Our students work in teams, research the issues and prepare and present a professional set of recommendations.

*Be aware that all Advanced Practice with investigative consultancy project routes are similar to many of our 1-Year MSc with consultancy project routes, while 2-year Advanced Practice course spends more dedicated time in the Business Clinic, reflected on the total assessment input for the two 60 credit modules.

The MSc in International Finance and Investment is designed to meet the needs of students who are at the beginning of a career in the field of finance. The aim of the course is to enable you to develop an integrated and critically aware understanding of international investment and finance and thus expand your career options by combining the knowledge from previous degree with a specialised Masters qualification.

The course will equip you with the specialised skills required to implement finance and econometric theory in areas such as quantitative analysis, financial research, international financial markets and institutions, investment, derivatives and risk management. The course is designed to build on the transferable skills important for employment in the areas of business finance, banking, financial markets, investment and quantitative finance research.

Assessment forms an integral part of your learning experience. You will be assessed through essays and exams. You will also complete a 15,000 word dissertation. This is supported significantly through a module Research Method and Analytics for Business Practice, and by an academic supervisor with relevant expertise in the subject. Alternatively, there are two options to Dissertation. The first is, you can complete a Masters’ Consultancy Project. This would give you a thorough introduction to essential management concepts, tools, functions and disciplines enabling you to demonstrate relevant knowledge and understanding of organisations, the external context in which they operate and how they are managed. The second is you could complete a Management Enquiry.

The academic team have extensive experience in both research and industry, with specialisms including investment, risk and derivatives, professional banking, credit analyst and consortium finance. We incorporate our finding into the syllabus to ensure you are up to date with current developments in a fast changing subject field.

When you join Newcastle Business School you will become part of a business school with a global reputation for delivering some of the best business management courses in the UK. We recently gained double accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) – an international hallmark of excellence.

For all the taught modules, you will be taught in lectures, workshops and computer labs environments where the application of technology is very much at the centre of your learning experience.

The Financial Econometrics modules expose you to various state-of-art econometric packages such as Eviews, financial databases such as Bloomberg. You will also have access to Stata MS Office applications, MS Project, various SAS applications and Google Analytics.

Our academics undertake practice relevant research in a range of applied subject areas, enabling us to interpret developments in what is a very fast changing subject field.

You are encouraged to undertake enquiry based learning, where you will be co-creators of your own knowledge and learning and also develop research, enquiry and team working skills.

You will receive a wealth of employment support as part of your Masters study. Core to this process is the module Leadership and Development.

This module aims to prepare you to be highly employable, enabling you to demonstrate your ability to make an immediate impact on any organisation you join after graduation.

You will leave Newcastle Business School highly knowledgeable about the theory and practice of international finance and investment.

You will also have the ability to act and think strategically, meaning you will be well equipped to begin the next stage of your career.