Alliance Manchester Business School - Worldwide (Dubai Campus)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Qualification: MSc
Duration: 24 months
Delivery: Blended Learning
Workload: Approx 20 hours per week
Next enrolment: September 2025
Fees: £22,575 (Paid in 4 installments)
This course will equip you with the skills, knowledge and confidence that allows you to pursue a successful career in financial management.
You'll gain a deep understanding of the characteristics and functioning of financial markets in a global context and while you do not need to be a finance specialist to take this course, a strong interest in numbers and analytics is important.
Successful finance practitioners require a wide range of transferable skills and subject-specific knowledge in areas such as corporate finance, financial markets and financial accounting. Our MSc comprises foundational units in finance and accounting alongside advanced units in the following areas:
Financial management
Financial markets
Financial strategy
Private equity
Data Analysis & Statistical Techniques
Quantitative Methods for Financial Management
A final supervised project will allow you to deepen your finance knowledge and apply your skills by analysing real-world information and addressing questions with practical implications. You will be taught by a team of academics that have several years of experience delivering course content both online and face-to-face within blended programmes. Our academics are on the cutting-edge of finance research, which informs their teaching. They regularly utilise our wide range of financial databases in their learning and teaching activities. This is a significant strength of our MSc in Financial Management.
The course will equip you with:
A deep understanding of the tasks that financial managers and other similar finance practitioners undertake and the objectives they pursue;
The ability to describe and interpret the functioning of financial markets;
An understanding of why and how successful companies rely on and benefit from well-functioning financial markets;
The skills and knowledge to analyse and synthesise complex information from corporations and financial markets, and offer solutions to challenging problems;
The capability to search and gather relevant financial information from several sources such as companies' annual reports and financial databases;
Flexible and relevant transferable skills that finance practitioners require in their career.
You will learn how to:
understand the interplay between well-functioning financial markets and successful companies;
apply a full range of financial techniques to real-life business situations;
search and gather relevant financial information from multiple sources, including companies' annual reports and financial databases;
offer data-based solutions to complex and relevant business challenges, such as analysis of financial strategies, selecting valuable investment projects.
Financial Zone
From the moment you start the course, you will have access to Alliance Manchester Business School's Finance Zone, one of the UK’s most comprehensive collections of specialist financial and business databases.
These resources are used by top researchers around the world and include Bloomberg, Datastream, Thomson ONE, Compustat, WRDS, Capital IQ plus many more.
