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Start date

September

Duration

2 years

Attendance mode

Full-time

Location

On Campus

Fees

Home: £15,740 (+£1,385 placement year fee)
International: £26,770 (+£1,385 placement year fee)

Course code

PGTF0283

Entry requirements

We will consider all applications with 2:2 (or international equivalent) or higher. In addition to degree classification we take into account other elements of the application such as supporting statement. References are optional, but can help build a stronger application if you fall below the 2:2 requirement or have non-traditional qualifications.

See international entry requirements and English language requirements

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The MSc Finance with Work Placement Year provides you with the opportunity to study in the heart of London, close to one of the world’s premier financial centres with highly dynamic firms operating in Banking, Insurance, FinTech, and the financial services ecosystem.

You will be part of a highly international cohort of ambitious students seeking to make an impact in a global career in finance and financial management. You will be able to study cutting-edge skills such as Analytics and new areas such as Green Finance, and add a new dimension to your global effectiveness skill-set by studying a language.

Additional opportunities to improve employability skills, including a virtual industry project where you work in teams to solve a real-world problem as student consultants. The MSc Finance is a flexible option for those with or without prior background in finance.

For your placement year, you will have the opportunity to take part in a full-time, 10–12 month work placement at an organisation of your choice. Please note: you will be expected to secure the work placement yourself, to be approved by the academic department. The SOAS Careers team are on hand to help you with your CV, interview skills and finding the right organisation for you.

The School of Finance and Management is excited to continue its collaboration with Practera, building on the success of the previous SFM Virtual Industry Projects. These bespoke work-based learning projects are designed to grow your professional skills and network through working with a team of SOAS students to tackle a real-world business challenge.

Why study MSc Finance with Work Placement Year at SOAS?

SOAS is ranked 38th in the UK for Accounting and Finance (Complete University Guide 2023)
We are ranked 6th in UK for graduate employability (QS World University Rankings 2023)
We are ranked 2nd in the UK for research impact (REF 2021)

Finance and Business Network Seminar 2023/24

This Seminar Series is open to all our UG and PG students. It offers you the opportunity to engage with experts from the worlds of business, finance, banking, and the public sector.
Listen to leaders within their fields and network with them, fellow students and Faculty over refreshments.
Most events will be held on campus, but some will be held at industry headquarters. For example, in 2022/23 an event was held at Citigroup’s Canary Wharf Offices.
The networking part of the seminars will also provide opportunities to engage with practitioners to help foster students’ career visions.

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Students must take 180 credits. These are composed of 120 taught credits comprising core, compulsory, and optional modules and a 60 credit dissertation.

Completion of the placement year comes with an optional additional 60 credits (on top of the 180 mandatory credits that need to be completed for the MSc Financial Management degree).

Not all optional modules are offered every year. Also note that where 15 credit modules are selected, these should be balanced between term 1 and term 2.

Important notice

The information on the website reflects the intended programme structure against the given academic session. The modules are indicative options of the content students can expect and are/have been previously taught as part of these programmes.

However, this information is published a long time in advance of enrolment and module content and availability is subject to change.

Year 1 - Core

Year 1 - Compulsory

Four compulsory modules

Year 1 - Guided options - List A

A minimum of 30 credits to be selected from List A. A further 15 credits can be selected from either List A or Open Languages.

Year 2 - Placement Year

Year 2 - Dissertation or Projects

Open options

Students can take a maximum of 15 credits from the School-wide languages' open options list.

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Masters programmes (with the exception of two-year full-time MAs) consist of 180 credits, made up of taught modules of 30 or 15 credits, taught over 10 or 20 weeks, and a dissertation of 60 credits. The programme structure shows which modules are compulsory and which optional.

Contact hours

As a rough guide, 1 credit equals approximately 10 hours of work. Most of this will be independent study such as reading and research, preparing coursework, revising for examinations and so on. Also included is class time, for example lectures, seminars and other classes.

Learning resources

SOAS Library is one of the world's most important academic libraries for the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, attracting scholars from all over the world. The Library houses over 1.2 million volumes, together with significant archival holdings, special collections and a growing network of electronic resources.

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Graduates from the School of Finance and Management leave SOAS with a coherent and solid knowledge of management and finance, with skills in statistics and computing, critical reasoning and analytical thinking.

Recent graduates have been hired by: