MSc Investment Analysis and Risk at Aston University

Delivered by the triple-accredited Aston Business School, the MSc Investment Analysis and Risk programme offers a comprehensive journey into finance and investment. Focused on practical application in trading and corporate settings, it integrates hands-on experience with Python programming and Bloomberg terminals. This course covers crucial areas such as security valuation, portfolio management and global market dynamics.

Faculty: College of Business and Social Sciences  |  Department: Aston Business School  |  Duration: One year  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: January 2027, April 2027, September 2027  |  Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Taught stage core modules: Fixed Income Securities, Security Analysis, Introduction to Financial Econometrics. Dissertation stage core modules: Independent Project.

Career pathways

The transferable skills that our finance programmes provide mean that our graduates are successful in finding employment in a wide range of roles such as: Our graduates have gone on to work at companies such as J.P.Morgan Chase, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Ernst and Young, GE Healthcare, Industrial Commerical Bank of China, JDX Consulting, Morgan Stanley, Infosys and Amazon.

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