Course Overview

The overall aim of the MBA Finance and Sustainability programme is to provide you with the opportunity to engage in a Higher Education experience using a flexible and distributed learning approach that will enhance your ability to develop and lead a sustainability agenda that focuses on change in the financial sector. In particular this award will:

• Provide a comprehensive introduction to the field of sustainable finance with an analysis of the environmental, social, ethical and governance dimensions of different financial service sectors, and evaluating related initiatives from both private and public-benefit perspectives. The financial services addressed include: Assets, Debts, Insurance, Derivatives, and Currencies.

• Enable you to engage in a critical engagement with contemporary discourses in sustainability and the social responsibility of organisations, that will promote a personal and professional reflection on leading change, in the finance sector.

• Develop relevant management and organisation knowledge, both academic and professional, in line with postgraduate standards/benchmarks.

• Develop critical reflection skills and engagement with organisation and professional theory to understand, and where appropriate, challenge existing individual and organisational perspectives and practices.

• Develop, and where appropriate, apply new knowledge to add value by enhancing organisational capability.

• Develop understanding of the organisation’s strategic focus and environment and the impact of the inter-relationship between resources, customers, clients in a changing context.

• Develop further commitment to continuous personal and professional development, independence and reflective learning.

General Eligibility

1st or 2nd class honours degree.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• English language at IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each component).