Why study Accounting & Finance at Lancaster?
“I had the opportunity to work with an international cohort of very good students from different backgrounds and I established a strong network of friends.”
Viet Dung Nguyen
MSc Finance, 2005
A year spent on one of the MSc programmes in the Department of Accounting and Finance at Lancaster is certainly taxing, making real demands on your physical and intellectual stamina. You will grapple with many different and unfamiliar subjects over a short space of time – requiring excellent self-management, discipline and determination. Yet the experience is also energising and rewarding: involving new friends, new ideas, and many possible avenues to explore.
The three MSc programmes are ideal for graduates who have a quantitative background. The programmes draw on the teaching strengths of the Department of Accounting and Finance and your tutors will be specialists active in both teaching and research. They will give you a sense of how thinking and practice has evolved, but they will also introduce you to the latest concepts and ideas – and challenge you to reflect on those concepts in a critical way.
Demonstrate your flexibility to employers
Adding one of our finance-based Masters qualifications to your first degree not only gives you important subject knowledge, equipping you for entry into graduate management positions in the accounting and financial sectors, it also allows you to demonstrate to employers your versatility, your ability to absorb and make sense of new areas quickly and effectively – likely to be vital skills in the context of ever-shifting management demands.
Identify your managerial strengths
Exposure to the main areas of accounting and finance gives you a good overview. At the same time, it allows you to assess where your own particular area of interest may lie. Extensive groupwork activity within the programme will also enable you to learn important things about yourself – for example, your preferred managerial style, how you approach and manage tasks, and how you operate most effectively in cross-cultural teams.
To help you in your career planning, there is a programme of careers support to help you devise effective job hunting strategies and techniques.
International friendships and networks
Working with students from so many different nationalities brings a stimulating variety of perspectives and experience into the classroom. It is also a great way to extend your personal and professional networks – many of our MSc alumni keep in touch with one another, and you’ll also make friends within the Management School's wider postgraduate community.
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