Year 1
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required Modules
You are required to take:
• Quantitative Techniques (15 credits)
• Investments Analysis (15 credits)
• Applied Corporate Finance (15 credits)
• Financial Markets & Institutions (15 credits)
• Asset Pricing (15 credits)
• Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional Modules
In addition, you are required to take 45 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:
• Financial Derivatives (15 credits)
• Empirical Finance (15 credits)
• Risk Management (15 credits)
• Financial Econometrics (15 credits)
• Financial Regulation and Governance (15 credits)
• Topics in Applied Finance (15 credits)
• Behavioural Finance (15 credits)
• Applied Wealth Management (15 credits)
• International Finance (15 credits)
• Financial Engineering (15 credits)
• Portfolio Management (15 credits)
• Credit Ratings (15 credits)
• Computational Finance (15 credits)
• Bond Markets, Analysis & Strategies (15 credits)
King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change.