Learning environment
“The MSc offers a vast set of technical skills delivered by highly competent faculty. I found the mix of examinations and coursework truly helped develop the knowledge base required to succeed in any industry.”
Meghna Amrohi
MSc Finance, 2007
Teaching on the Masters programmes in Accounting and Finance typically involves a mixture of teaching and learning styles. Formal lecture input is often interspersed with discussion, group exercises and case studies which allow you to engage with theories and concepts and reflect on their application in practice. You will have opportunities to work on a variety of group tasks, both assessed and non-assessed. That same variety of approaches is reflected in the assessment process.
There is a strong emphasis on participation and many sessions involve significant interaction between the tutor and the class, with discussion taking place in small groups and in the full class. You therefore need to be prepared to be an active member of the class, exchanging and debating ideas with others.
Postgraduate accounting lecture in one of the Management School's state-of-the-art lecture theatres
To facilitate that process, the class (typically 135 students) is divided into two for teaching purposes – which means that you will normally be in a class of around 60 students. In some modules, particularly in the first term, you will be able to mix with students from other Masters programmes within the School.
Study skills and support courses
To help students optimise their performance in the academic modules, academic study skills support courses are offered within the programme. The courses are voluntary but are recommended as an excellent way of refining your study skills.
Academic study skills
This programme of workshops and individual tutorials has been devised primarily for international students, to help them to communicate more confidently in groups, to produce competent coursework assignments in well-written English, and to develop good exam technique. As it includes sessions on effective argumentation and on organising and structuring essays, it may also be highly valuable for those whose first degrees have required different styles of assessment.
Private study
Group work and seminars play an important part in all Accounting and Finance degree programmes
Outside the taught sessions, you will be expected to manage your own learning, reading widely, using the Internet and making extensive use of the University library resources, both print-based and online. Campus rooms have network connections, there are also terminals in the MSc baseroom - and you have 24-hour access to the School’s IT labs – giving you flexibility to devise your own work schedule.
Social events
Life is not all work on the MSc programmes, despite the hectic schedule: social events play a very important part, too, in the life of the class. Each year the class appoints a Social Committee whose role is to organise various events, for example an end of term party.
The Masters programmes in Accounting and Finance at Lancaster have attained 
Our programmes also receive 