University College Dublin
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I know, let’s sign upI have an account, let me sign in firstThe Pathway to the MSc in Financial Services is a flexible way for you to master skills critical skills that are aligned to your career plans and that prepare you for tackling complex financial services management challenges.
If you’re an experienced professional who wants to deepen expertise in your chosen career while enhancing your strategic mindset, then this flexible MSc Pathway offers you the very best learning experience and a world-class qualification.
University College Dublin
Who is it for?
The programme is ideal for financial services professionals who are in leadership positions, or who aspire to leadership roles.
The Pathway to MSc in Financial Services aims to develop expertise in your chosen areas of interest (e.g. Digital, Data, Culture, Risk Management, Retail Banking or Investment Funds) while fostering a strategic perspective to enable you to assess strategic alternatives, identify new growth opportunities, and solve complex problems in financial services.
The curriculum develops industry specific knowledge and research insights and utilises your practical experience to promote peer learning. An important aspect of the programme is the integration of technical skills and a focus on strategic challenges facing financial institutions to identify opportunities and threats arising in the global marketplace.
You will critically evaluate the implications of operating in a dynamic business environment and the challenges you face in developing and executing strategies to provide value added products, services and solutions as firms seek to create compelling value propositions to support sustainable competitive advantage
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On completing the MSc in Financial Services graduates will be able to:
Utilise in-depth technical and theoretical knowledge necessary to manage in the evolving financial services landscape
Critically appraise the forces shaping financial services (including regulation, technology, competition, risk, customer/client expectations)
Assimilate a range of theoretical and empirical evidence to analyse complex problems and develop and evaluate innovative solutions and strategic alternatives
Formulate strategy and policy for the financial services firm cognisant of the impact it may have on wider society and the need to recommend courses of action in an ethical and sustainable manner
Critically evaluate the trade-offs between an institution’s risk appetite, related internal control framework, operating model and its profitability
Communicate clearly to stakeholders, using appropriate media and reporting standards, contemporary issues, decisions and developments in retail banking and financial services.
If you hold an IOB designation or a designation managed by IOB, CPD hours may be awarded on successful completion of this programme.
Delivery is online.
Each 5 ECTS module comprises of up to 18 delivery hours per trimester and each 10 ECTS module comprises of up to 24 delivery hours per trimester.
When you successfully complete this programme you will be awarded a MSc in Financial Services from UCD.
This is a level 9 qualification on the National Framework of Qualifications.
Assessment is a combination of continuous assessment and written exams.
From €1,760 per module
Autumn Trimester
19 September 2022
03 October 2022
For more information please contact [email protected]
The routes to attaining the MSc in Financial Services award
There are two routes to attaining the MSc award. The first is to study the Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning or the Graduate Diploma in Digital and Data Strategy in Financial Services and then the Professional Diploma in Strategic Management in Financial Services.
The Graduate Diploma programmes are six module programmes that run over 18 months. Students must receive 2.2 or higher in the Graduate Diploma programmes to receive the MSc award at the end of their study.
On the second route, students must complete two of a number of Professional Diplomas from our postgraduate offerings and then the Professional Diploma in Strategic Management in Financial Services.
Students complete individual Professional Diplomas on a stand alone basis, but need to complete all three Diplomas within seven years to be eligible for the MSc in Financial Services award.
This programme enrols twice a year.
19 September 2022
03 October 2022
Those interested in embarking on the Pathway to MSc in Financial Services apply in the first instance for one of the constituent Professional Diploma programmes within the Pathways framework. The entry requirements to these constituent programmes in most cases are:
An Honours degree (min 2.2 L8 NFQ)
or
Admission may also be considered for experienced professionals who do not meet the admission requirements as set out above, where they can demonstrate knowledge through their work i.e. they have more than 5 years’ experience in a management role (to be considered on a case by case basis).
or
Equivalent relevant professional qualification e.g. Qualified Financial Adviser (QFA), with three years’ relevant work experience obtained in the banking or financial services industry, Chartered Tax Advisers (CTAs), accountants, solicitors and barristers
You must be a current member of IOB, or become a member, to undertake this programme.
IOB was founded in 1898 by a small group of financial services professionals. Today we are Ireland's largest professional membership community.
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