Course Overview

This programme is available to Home and International applicants.

This programme provides the academic and practical skills necessary to develop and reflect on high-level bank and financial management issues which will be applicable across a wide range of financial situations, financial markets and financial organisations.

After successful completion of this programme, students are welcome to continue to study with us onto our Doctor of Business Administration programme.

Course Modules

The MBA Banking and Finance programme will equip students with general business management knowledge as well as specialist Financial and Banking modules to enable them to excel in their chosen field.

Part 1

Compulsory modules:

• Marketing Management (20 credits)
  Upon the successful completion of the Marketing Management module, the student should be able to:
  • critically appraise key marketing activities and the contribution of the marketing department to the organisation;
  • anticipate and critically evaluate future developments in the field of marketing especially through technology.

• Human Resource Management  (20 credits)
  Upon the successful completion of the Human Resource Management module, the student should be able to:
  critically review and appraise current research and advanced scholarship so to enable them to evaluate managerial and business environments;
  demonstrate a systematic understanding of current issues in HRM and IHRM within a variety of organisations so to enable them to manage effectively the design and implementation of fair, efficient and effective policies and procedures that serve to deliver upon the strategic aims of the organisation.

• Financial Management (20 credits)
  Upon the successful completion of the Financial Management module, the student should be able to demonstrate the ability to:
  research, apply and evaluate a variety of financial assessment techniques for application to a case study;
  • research, evaluate and critically discuss various issues and theoretical frameworks used in the management and control of financial resources.

• Strategic Management (20 credits)
  Upon the successful completion of the Strategic Management module, the student should be able to demonstrate the ability to:
  • synthesise the relationship between the external context of an organisation and its internal context and their impact on its strategies;
  • critically evaluate competitive and development strategies, in the context of contemporary strategic management issues;
  • assess the factors that must be considered in strategy implementation.

Specialist modules:

• Bank Financial Management and Financial Markets (20 credits)
  Upon the successful completion of the Banking Financial Management and Financial Markets module, the student should be able to demonstrate the ability to:
  • demonstrate an understanding of the pricing of financial assets, the role and application of finance theory and the operation of financial markets;
  • critically discuss bank performance criteria and valuation methods and demonstrate a detailed understanding of contemporary issues in bank management.
• Corporate Finance (20 credits)
  Upon the successful completion of the Corporate Finance module, the student should be able to demonstrate the ability to:
  • understand the key themes that underpin modern corporate finance and their relevance to business capital structure and corporate governance;
  • develop a critical understanding of the financing decisions of organisations in modern economies.

Part 2

• Dissertation (60 credits; compulsory)

Career and Progression
Potential careers and advancement opportunities include management roles in banking, corporate finance, financial trading, analyst and international business contexts.