Overview
One-year master's at Cardiff Business School covering asset pricing, corporate finance, financial markets and investment, with options in fintech, sustainable finance and electronic trading.
Highlights
- Asset Pricing
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Markets and Investment
- Sustainable Finance
Entry requirements
- Academic
- 2:2 honours degree in any discipline including at least one module with mathematics, statistics or quantitative content, or international equivalent.
- English language
- IELTS 6.5 overall with 5.5 in each subskill, or an accepted equivalent.
- Experience or portfolio
- Applicants without a relevant degree may be considered on professional experience supported by signed, dated employer references.
- Applicants from Pakistan
- Cardiff's Pakistan page considers a four-year bachelor's (honours) degree, a two-year master's following a two, three or four-year bachelor's, or a one-year master's following a three or four-year bachelor's. For programmes requiring a 2:2 comparable degree it states a CGPA 'in the region of 2.5 or above', decided by the admissions tutor. Source
Careers
Prepares graduates for investment, banking, consultancy and financial services roles; some modules offer optional Bloomberg certificates.
Working after you graduate
Bachelor's and master's graduates on a Student visa may apply in the UK for the Graduate visa: two years if applying by 31 December 2026, or 18 months if applying on or after 1 January 2027.
Checked on 10 October 2026. Official source.
Scholarships for this course
- Chevening ScholarshipsTuition fees, monthly living stipend, economy return flight, arrival and departure allowances and visa application cost
- Commonwealth Master's ScholarshipsFull tuition fees, return airfare, monthly stipend of GBP 1,712 (GBP 2,000 in the London area) and a study travel grant
- Vice-Chancellor's Postgraduate International ScholarshipGBP 6,000 tuition fee discount for applicants domiciled in Pakistan (standard award GBP 4,000)