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UCD Awarded Graduate Programmes

IOB is a leader in providing accredited professional qualifications across Financial Services, Banking, and Funds. Learning is designed around your busy professional life, delivered part-time, online and through blended learning.

We are pleased to advise that we are now open for applications for our full suite of level 9 programmes. All programmes are accredited by University College Dublin (UCD) – IOB is a Recognised College of UCD.

We are also delighted to inform you that IOB has received Government Funding for  postgraduate programmes across Banking, Financial Services and Funds which offer IOB members a unique low-cost opportunity to re-skill, up-skill and new-skill employees across a spectrum of critical and emerging industry roles.

*Programmes marked with an asterisk are applicable for IFS Skillnet Funding

Financial Planning and Wealth Management

• Graduate diploma in Financial Planning (CFP Professional Designation)

• NEW Professional Certificate in Asset Management (AMP Professional Designation)

• NEW Professional Certificate in Retirement Planning

Governance, Risk and Compliance

• Professional Certificate in Financial Crime Prevention (CFCP Professional Designation)*

• Professional Certificate in Data Protection (CDPO Professional Designation)*

• Professional Diploma in Advanced Operational Risk Management

• Professional Diploma in Advanced Banking Risk Management*

• MSc in Compliance*

Funds and International Financial Services

• Professional Diploma in Applied Alternative Investments*

• Professional Certificate for Designated Persons in Fund Management Company

Digital and Innovation

• Professional Diploma in Digital Transformation in Financial Services*

• Professional Diploma in Data and Analytics in Financial Services

• Professional Diploma in Digital and Data Strategy in Financial Services

Retail Banking

• Pathway to the MSc in Financial Services

• Professional Diploma in Banking (Chartered Banker Designation)

Other Level 9 Programmes & Qualifications

• Professional Diploma in Leading Cultural Change and Ethical Behaviour in Financial Services*

• Professional Diploma in Strategic Management in Financial Services

Acquire a stand-alone industry and role specific Postgraduate award, or choose your Pathway to the Msc in Financial Services designed to allow our students to acquire the MSc in Financial Services via a series of ‘bite-sized’, stand-alone individual Professional Diploma awards. Pathways allow students to select any two Professional Diplomas from the suite and, combining these with a core Professional "Diploma in Strategic Management in Financial Services", attain the MSc award.