MA Financial Economics
Entry requirements
A level: CCC IB: 28 points, including 5, 5, 4 at higher level Higher / Advanced Higher, SQA (standard): BBBC (View source data of all entry requirements for this course.).
About this course
MA (Hons) Economics, combining core economic skills with financial economics. Core topics include Statistics, Mathematical Modelling, Financial Analysis, Accounting, Programming, and Policy Analysis. The programme shares its first year with the standard Economics degree before specialising in financial markets and forecasting.
Modules
- Making of the Modern Economy
- Introductory Financial Accounting
- International Business Environment
- Business Information Systems
- Global Economic Perspectives
- Introduction to Business Accounting
- Environment, City and Society
- Social and Environmental Challenges in an Unequal World
- Revolutions in World History
- The Rise of Atlantic Empires, 1500-1750
- Core Mathematics I
- Core Mathematics II
- Applied French 1A (Beginner)
- Applied French 1A (non-beginner)
- Applied French 1B (Beginner)
- Applied French 1B (non-beginner)
- Plato and the Good Life
- Descartes, Thought and Reality
- Politics and Public Policy
- Applied Spanish 1A (Beginner)
- Applied Spanish 1A (non-beginner)
- Applied Spanish 1B (Intensive)
- Applied Spanish 1B (non-beginner)
- Introductory Psychology:1
- Introductory Psychology:2
- Microeconomics
- Skills for Economics and Finance
- Macroeconomics and Applied Policy
- Career Planning Module Online
- Intermediate Financial Accounting
- People and Organisational Behaviour
- Economics of an Unequal World
- Business Law
- Intermediate Financial Management
- Business Internship Module
- Earth Systems and Resources
- Earth System Function and Measurement
- Dynamic Human Worlds: Society, Culture, Economy
- Dynamic Physical Worlds: Earth, Water and Ice
- Scotland and the Wider World
- Core Mathematics III
- Applied French 2A (beginner)
- Applied French 2A (non-beginner)
- Applied French 2B (beginner)
- Applied French 2B (non-beginner)
- Thinking about life: Existentialism, Life World and Dasein
- Aesthetics
- Comparative Politics
- Applied Spanish 2A (beginner)
- Applied Spanish 2A (non-beginner)
- Applied Spanish 2B (beginner)
- Applied Spanish 2B (non-beginner)
- Understanding the Mind
- Principles of Econometrics
- Business Microeconomics
- Business Macroeconomics
- Portfolio, Asset Selection, and Valuations
- Behavioural Economics and Finance
- Applied Econometrics
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Marketing Strategy
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Applied Human Resource Management
- Competition and Market Regulation
- Decision Science for Business
- Multinational Strategies for Global Markets
- Options, Futures, and Valuations
- Asset Pricing
- Financial Data Analysis and Modelling with AI
- Business and Economics in a Changing World
- Exchange Rates and the Foreign Exchange Market
- School of Business Dissertation
- Marketing Research Project
- Microeconomic Policy
- Macroeconomic Theory
- Principles of Marketing Research
- Macroeconomic Policy in Practice
- International Trade and Investment
- Data Mining for Business
- Predictive Analytics