University of Kent

MSc Sustainable Finance and Investment

Canterbury, United Kingdom

DURATION

1 Years

LANGUAGES

English

PACE

Full time

APPLICATION DEADLINE

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EARLIEST START DATE

Sep 2025

TUITION FEES

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STUDY FORMAT

On-Campus

Introduction

Finance is a broad but booming sector, working within it means you may be involved in investing money, managing it, protecting it or accounting for it. Good finance workers need a head for numbers, detail-driven organisational skills but also the ability to communicate well and be resilient to pressure.

Our Sustainable Finance and Investment MSc sculpts graduates who understand the financial needs and risks of enterprise and have a good handle on the systems and longstanding practices to succeed in this field. Taught by academic experts and co-designed with industry experts, our MSc develops highly employable graduates. Further, our industry-standard software allows students to apply their learnings to real business data. Also available with an optional Placement.

Reasons to study MSc Sustainable Finance and Investment at Kent

Kent Business School is a ‘Triple Crown’ accredited business school placing us in the top 1% of business schools globally to be accredited by AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB.
You’ll be part of a supportive community at our Canterbury campus, one hour from London.
You’ll learn from our expert teaching staff, many of which appear in the top 2% of researchers worldwide.e
You can increase your career prospects through an optional short-term Professional Placement/Internship module as part of your degree, develop consultancy skills through our optional 'Finance Challenge' module or progress onto a 12-month optional Placement. You can even transform your idea into a business through the Business start-up Journey with Aspire.
We are updating all of our modules on this course to ensure we provide you with the tools you need to make a real impact after you graduate. We are currently working with CFA and GARP to make sure these modules meet industry standards and retain this course's accreditations.
You’ll gain access to employability support from enrolment up to 3 years after graduation at the historic Canterbury Cathedral.

What you’ll learn

You’ll learn the capstones of finance such as foundations of finance, investments and portfolio management, financial risk management, financial econometrics and derivatives alongside modules on research methods and skills and in particular quantitative methods. You will finish your master's with a detailed report with the support of a dedicated expert supervisor.

Admissions

Scholarships and Funding

Scholarship value

The award covers tuition fees, return airfares and living costs for a one-year taught Master's programme.

Deadline

Deadline for Commonwealth application: - 12 December 2024.

Hold an unconditional offer (with the only outstanding condition, international fee deposit) of a programme of study from the University of Kent - 31 January 2025

Criteria

To be eligible to apply for this scholarship, candidates must:

Hold an undergraduate degree at UK first-class level equivalent.
Be a citizen of or have been granted refugee status by one of the eligible Commonwealth countries listed or be a British Protected Person.
Be a permanent resident in one of the eligible Commonwealth countries listed above.
To be committed to the University of Kent, you can apply for more than one course and/or to more than one University, but you may only accept one offer of a Shared Scholarship.
Not have studied or worked for one (academic) year or more in a high-income country.
Be unable to afford to study in the UK without this scholarship.
Return to their home country as soon as their period of study is complete. In some circumstances, a student may be permitted to remain in the UK if seeing doctoral study and satisfy certain strict conditions.
Hold an offer by the deadline for a full-time postgraduate taught degree on one of the eligible courses at the University of Kent:
- MSc Artificial Intelligence
- MSc Infectious Diseases
- MSc Cyber Security
- MA International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
- MSc Applied Actuarial Science
- MSc Conservation Science
- MA English and American Literature

Further details

Commonwealth Shared Scholarships, set up by DFID in 1986, represent a unique partnership between the United Kingdom government and UK Universities.

Funded by the UK Department of International Development (DFID), Commonwealth Shared Scholarships enable talented and motivated individuals to gain the knowledge and skills required for sustainable development. They are aimed at those who could not otherwise afford to study in the UK.

These scholarships are offered under six themes:

Science and technology for development
Strengthening health systems and capacity
Promoting global prosperity
Strengthening global peace, security and governance
Strengthening resilience and response to crises - Access, inclusion and opportunity.

How to apply

To be considered for the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship you must:

Make a formal application for a postgraduate degree at the University of Kent commencing September 2025/26. This can be done online here.
Complete the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) online application process. For information on how to do that and full details of the application process please go directly to the Commonwealth Scholarships webpages.
Applications will be considered based on Academic Excellence and a completed application.
The Commonwealth will accept applications until 12th December 2024 (closing at 16:00 GMT).

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Curriculum

Career Opportunities

From the moment you start with us, our efforts are focused on helping you gain the knowledge, skills and experience you need to thrive in an increasingly competitive workplace. You can increase your career prospects through an optional short-term Professional Placement/Internship module as part of your degree, develop consultancy skills through our optional 'Finance Challenge' module or progress onto a 12-month optional Placement. You can even transform your idea into a business through the Business start-up Journey with Aspire. Our qualified career practitioners provide support for up to three years after graduation.

Our careers and employability support at Kent Business School is designed to make sure you are ready to hit the ground running when you graduate, when you study with us you can expect:

1-2-1 personalised Career Coaching with qualified and experienced coaches.
Pre-arrival guidance for international students to support navigating the UK labour market
Mentoring opportunities through professional bodies, business leaders and Kent alumni
Workshops and events designed to support your career planning, finding and securing work and work experience, and professional development, including insights from industry.
Access to ccareerfairs, live projects/competitions with employers and networking opportunities
Plus access to extracurricular professional development and skills courses run by industry professionals

Additionally, the Postgraduate Employability Edge programme, available to postgraduate students at Kent Business School takes place from Welcome Week until the end of your studies and is designed to enhance your career prospects further.

Successful KBS graduates: graduate destinations

Our Finance graduates find work in public and private sector management and consultancy both overseas and in the UK in a wide range of companies and organisations, including:

Dolfin Group Wealth Management
NatWest
Huawei
US Bank
Caterpillar
Eurex

Many of our students also stay local and find job opportunities regionally in small and medium firms or even set up their businesses as well-equipped entrepreneurs.

Professional Recognition

We are updating all of our modules on this course to ensure we provide you with the tools you need to make a real impact after you graduate. We are currently working with CFA and GARP to make sure these modules meet industry standards and retain this course's accreditations.