Master of Science in International Business

at City, University of London United Kingdom

Affordable and clean energy is key to meeting the challenges of climate change and sustainable development. On this MSc you’ll gain an understanding of technologies for energy production, and the knowledge and vision required to deliver a sustainable future. This programme will open-up real-world career opportunities across the sector.

This course will teach you a wide range of industrial, commercial and research aspects of the energy sector.

Students on this programme come from a range of backgrounds including engineering, environmental studies, finance, economics and law, as well as professionals already working in the sector.

Fast-moving, skilful and critical to the success of any organisation, marketers understand consumers and create offers that entice them. This Marketing Strategy and Innovation course gives you a head-start.

Whether you want to break into marketing, start your own business, take over your family’s company, or just learn more about how to innovate new products and services, and create buzz and excitement around them, this postgraduate strategic marketing course is right for you.

This strategic marketing master's course is specifically tailored for students with little or no prior marketing experience and study background.

It will qualify you to get your first professional marketing position, even if you have studied fine arts, medicine, business, or physics before. If you are looking for a degree that deepens your advanced marketing knowledge, please take a look at our other MSc courses or our MBA programmes.

Some people equate marketing with advertising. Not you. You know that marketing is a multi-faceted business process involving creativity and innovation alongside analytical and strategic skills.

The MSc in Marketing Strategy and Innovation postgraduate programme gives you a sound understanding of the principles and state-of-the art practices of marketing.

You will acquire the latest knowledge on market research, customer analysis, innovation and design, brand management, advertising, digital and social media marketing, fashion brand management, storytelling, sponsoring, and many other current marketing topics.

Your lecturers bring these topics to life through interactive classes, case discussions, lectures with leading marketers, and hands-on innovation and communication tasks. You will, for example:

• Work with a London start-up company on a marketing plan for the introduction of a new product to the UK market
• Develop your own business idea, business model, and communication strategy and pitch it to a jury of London marketers and investors
• Compete against classmates in a strategy simulation game where you experience how your marketing decisions would play out in the real world
• Personally meet some of London’s finest senior marketers, from companies such as Unilever, Visa, Interbrand, and Unruly.

On this accredited degree, you’ll learn how to apply engineering to the healthcare industry. You’ll take part in interdisciplinary study with experts in maths, science, engineering and medical disciplines, to develop in-demand professional and technical skills.

Biomedical engineers develop innovative technologies for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of medical conditions. It is a growth area with applications in a range of industries. Our degrees are designed to prepare you for an exciting highly-skilled career in this rapidly growing field.

Our degrees are triple-accredited by professional bodies, meaning your qualification will be recognised for its quality and relevance. Furthermore, you will:

• Develop in-depth biomedical engineering expertise, alongside professional skills in management and communication
• Work with teams from prominent clinical institutions including St Bartholomew's Hospital and The Royal London Hospital
• Gain hands-on experience with high-tech equipment in our newly refurbished undergraduate and research labs
• Take an optional work placement to enhance your academic credentials, employability and professional expertise

Pass your second year and apply to transfer to our integrated MEng degree, which fast tracks your progress to Chartered Engineer status.

The MSc in Corporate Finance programme is your chance to specialise in one of the biggest, most popular and prestigious areas of finance. Start your stellar career today.

The MSc degree in Corporate Finance is designed for ambitious students with interest in the area of corporate finance. Your background is not necessarily in finance or accounting, but you have a keen interest to study corporate finance and aim for a professional career in this or a related field.

You aim to work as a finance professional for an investment bank, a consulting firm, or a global corporation as a finance manager. You are interested in questions such as:

• How do investors decide which stocks (e.g. Tesla vs. Ford) and which markets (e.g. the UK vs. Italy) to invest in?
• The benefits of international compared to domestic mergers?
• How do hedge funds and investment banks compete in the market?
• What skills and knowledge you need to work for a hedge fund, a private equity firm, an investment bank or one of top accounting firms, an M&A boutique or a finance department at a global corporation.
• How to value a company for a private equity buyout, an acquisition or an IPO?
• How to analyse financial statements to understand firm’s profitability and future prospects

The degree attracts top students from around the world and is among the most popular degrees students apply to. During the studies, you will have the opportunity to meet and network with alumni working in the finance profession and learn their inside tips on getting a finance job. The programme is widely recognised by top recruiters in the City of London and internationally.

The Corporate Finance master’s is designed to satisfy your drive to understand how companies manage their investment and financing decisions.

In your studies, you will examine questions such as: how financial markets work and how companies access them to finance their operations, what IPOs and mergers and acquisitions are and how they help increase firm value, how to value financial products, such as stocks and derivatives.

Your studies will encompass practical and up-to-date teaching on how the modern corporate finance world works from top academics and practitioners from the City of London.

You will graduate fully equipped for a successful career within financial management and corporate finance departments of leading global and international corporations, top investment and commercial banks, and family firms.

Unique features of this degree are:

• Core modules in Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity and Risk Management
• Tuition from 'practitioner' professors who discuss how theory applies to the real world
• Hands-on courses on the use of Excel, VBA and opportunity to learn other programming languages such as Python
• A choice from over twelve finance related electives including international electives in New York, Madrid, Portugal and Milan
• Opportunities to meet and interact with top finance and business leaders during guest lectures and seminars
• Support from one of London’s best Careers’ Office to help you secure future employment (including one-to-one sessions to prepare you for interviews, networking sessions, work on your CV, advice on application and a Career’s Fair where you can meet potential employers)
• Networking events with alumni and finance professionals
• The opportunity to apply for an additional year's study at LUISS or Bocconi business schools in Italy to quality with two MSc degrees (one from the Bayes Business School and the other from LUISS or Bocconi)

This degree provides an exciting, global and interdisciplinary approach to the study of music, blending theory, practice and performance.

City’s wide range of ensembles - including classical, contemporary, jazz and world music - conduct regular concerts and a summer festival, providing you with opportunities to perform and discover world-class musicians.

• Learn in a highly energised department, with internationally recognised staff who share your devotion to music
• Study with leading music professionals and performers, many of whom also teach at the leading London conservatoires
• Enjoy up to 20 hours of 1-2-1 solo instrumental/vocal tuition each year, with tuition guaranteed throughout your course of study
• Train in facilities that include advanced recording and composition studios, and performance and practice spaces
• Prepare for a range of music-related careers through optional modules in sound recording, music business, music education and more
• Gain exciting new perspectives on music and its relationships with culture, technology and society through a close study of classical, popular and world music
• Follow in the footsteps of students who have undertaken a placement year with Les Miserables, London Philharmonic, and other organisations.

Investigate how we behave in the workplace to enhance organizational health and performance in our BPS accredited Organisational Psychology MSc. You will have the chance to study your own area of interest and undertake research in an organization of your choice.

Our program is designed to give you the theoretical and practical knowledge to work as an organizational psychologist.

You will have access to specialist topics such as mindfulness in the workplace and innovative selection methods.

You will learn how to select the best employee and deliver effective training to help them achieve their potential. You will also explore the politics of power on corporate boards and undertake your own research.

We take a holistic perspective considering the individual, the organization, and the socio-political framework where they operate. Everything we teach can be applied in practice.

The MSc in Actuarial Science will prepare you for a high-flying career as an actuary in traditional and non-traditional actuarial fields. You also have the option to choose the Business Analytics pathway which will provide you with the much sought after skills in this area.

If you have strong technical ability and an interest in solving business problems, becoming an actuary is one of the most rewarding career choices you can make. Changes in the world bring new risks, which mean new challenges for actuaries.

It will offer you a firm grounding in the fundamentals of actuarial science in insurance, finance and investment, business analytical methods, machine learning, data management systems and natural language processing. You will undertake a detailed study of the mathematical and statistical techniques for measuring the probability and risk of future events and their financial impact on a business and/or their clients.

This program aims to provide you with a deep understanding of collection-orientated institutions and services and their relevance in society. Your course will enable you to examine the processes of information organization, communication, access and provision, as well as considering library infrastructures and services from both historical and philosophical perspectives.

This course will prepare you for a career in collection-related institutions and services. It is also ideal for those wishing to update their skills in this sector.

Library Science is a broad, interdisciplinary field, the principles and practices of which underpin today's information society.

With an emphasis on the use of new and emergent technologies; information resource description and organization; methods of investigation and analysis; ethical, legal, and socio-political implications, and policy formulation, this course is an ideal foundation for a career in modern collection-based services.

This programme builds on our international reputation in creative writing, journalism and publishing.

You will study the written word across time and space, from Shakespeare to social media, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to comic books.

By the end of the degree you will have produced your own creative and professional writing.

You will also have developed critical and analytical skills needed to understand how the written word shapes, and is shaped by, the world we live in.

• Immerse yourself in world literature and engage with current debates in literary scholarship
• Write creatively, professionally and analytically in a range of different forms, via a range of different media
• Learn from a team of expert lecturers who are passionate about engaging with the written word in all its forms
• Develop employability skills with a placement module in a relevant business, like publishing, teaching, journalism and the arts
• Or spend a full year on work placement – there are amazing opportunities on your doorstep in London’s exciting Knowledge Quarter
• Access awe inspiring library collections – including the Senate House Library, with millions of books and beautiful study spaces, and nearby British Library.

Develop the knowledge and skills to plan and evaluate public health programs on our master’s degree in Public Health. You will develop robust research and analytical skills and gain a critical understanding of the factors that drive public health theory and practice.

Drawing on international case studies, evidence, and practice, you will explore how public health programs and policies are planned, measured and evaluated and the socio-economic and political forces that affect them.

You will gain a clear understanding of the social determinants of health and how effective public health programs can help identify and address inequalities within societies.

To underpin your studies, you will learn thorough research, evaluation and analytical skills that you can apply in a wide range of settings.