Finance (MSc)

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Master of Science
Course Type
Full-time
Academic year
2025 / 2026

About this course

Our master degree in Finance will hone your insights into the future of finance. It will help you develop and use real industry skills that employers demand in rapidly changing and complex financial environments. You'll learn from academic experts who are active researchers with extensive professional experience.

The programme emphasises quantitative and analytical techniques. It also focuses on the latest practices and research, which you’ll learn with essential theory.

Further your finance career with a degree from a double-world top 100 university.

Eligibility criteria

  • Upper second-class degree or international equivalent in a subject that includes quantitative study
  • IELTS: 6.5 overall with 6.5 in reading and writing, and 6.0 in speaking and listening

What you'll do on this programme

This master's in finance delves into advanced stock market analysis, corporate finance, and portfolio management. 

You'll also look at behavioural finance, studying the biases that can affect decision-making in uncertain financial situations.

Other topics you’ll cover include:

  • complex financial products
  • assessing and managing financial risk
  • management decisions and value creation
  • econometric modelling
  • forecasting
  • leading econometric and statistical software

You’ll also use your skills and have actual industry experience through:

  • trade simulation workshops
  • access to industry software
  • using live company data
  • weekly research update seminars

Expert researchers will support you as you build your expertise for a career in industry, government, or research.

Careers

We are a top 20 UK university for employability (QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022).

When you finish this MSc Finance degree, you'll have extensive knowledge and skills for today’s competitive and rapidly changing financial landscape. 

Career opportunities 

You could develop a specialist role or carry out research in: 

  • the business sector 
  • banks and other financial institutions 
  • the public sector 
  • universities or research-related institutions

Careers services at University of Southampton Delhi

As well as support from our team in Delhi, you'll have access to our market-leading employability development offering. This includes:

  • online resources
  • regular workshops
  • one-to-one guidance and support with qualified careers professionals through our MyCareer platform

 Through our e-mentoring scheme, you'll also have access to:

  • tailored career planning
  • advice on employability skills
  • industry insight

We have incorporated our employability skills model, Successful Futures, into our curriculum. Our links with multi-national and industrial organisations mean that you can expect to engage with employers and explore potential career paths.

You will receive a personalised employability programme that will provide excellent prospects for securing a premium placement and financial security on graduating. 

We also host regular alumni events hosted in person across major cities in India, allowing you to grow your own networks.

Our support is ongoing, and once you graduate, you'll be part of a global community of over 220,000 alumni that spans over 180 countries.