About Finance (banking And Risk Management) (msc) in University College Cork

The course has an excellent employment track record. Since inception 100%of students on the course gained graduate employment.  For a list of these jobs please see our Programme Brochure at this link here

The MSc Finance (Banking and Risk Management) course in UCC involves an advanced study of the practices of investment, banking and risk management and includes an applied research project, using cutting-edge techniques and software.

The MSc Finance (Banking and Risk Management) is at the top end of graduate study in business/finance in Ireland and is designed for high achievers who wish to pursue high-end careers in financial markets areas such as:

• investment banking
• corporate banking
• trading/dealing
• portfolio management
• asset pricing
• treasury
• capital markets (equity, money, bond, FX and derivatives markets)
• risk management
• financial analysis
• research

Skills and Careers Information

The course brings you into direct contact with financial markets, their issues and practices through practitioner seminars and visiting speakers throughout the year, across all modules.

In this course:

• you will be trained in financial research, consulting and professional report writing
• you will be taught about the quantitative methods relevant to the financial sector and required for Ph.D. level research
• your interpersonal, organisational and leadership competencies will be developed
• your oral and written communication skills will be improved through assignments, dialogue, exercises, presentations, etc.

The blended learning approach to education combines lectures, projects, seminars, group discussion, presentations and individual and group reports.

Academic qualification equivalents

• Applicants should have an honours degree in a related subject.
• Indian applicants will normally be required to achieve a first class/first division mark in their undergraduate programme at a good institution of higher education in India. At the discretion of academic departments, students with degrees awarded by top universities such as the University of Mumbai, University of Delhi, University of Calcutta, and the University of Pune, may be accepted with high second class/high second division marks. 

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS: 6.5  Minimum individual sections 5.5
• TOEFL: TOEFL 90  Listening - 17; Reading - 18; Speaking - 20; Writing 17
• PTE: 63 Minimum individual sections 51

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