Accounting and finance
Our award-winning accounting and finance experts will take your skills and knowledge to the next level. Our industry links will help to prepare you for a successful professional career.
- Courses hold CFA institute partnership status
- CFA scholarship and online CFA coaching available to the best performing students.
- Academics offer training on specialised statistical software, such as MATLAB and Stata as part of a range of extracurricular activities organised for students.
- All students have the opportunity to participate at a Manchester-based week-long Trading BootCamp, run by Amplify Trading
- Provides experience of real-world trading
- Opportunity to engage with contemporary financial markets, enabling you to apply classroom theory in practice.
- The Library's Finance Zone provides access to one of the UK’s most comprehensive collections of specialist financial and business databases used by top researchers around the world
- Databases include Bloomberg, Datastream, Thomson ONE, Compustat, WRDS, Capital IQ plus many more.
7th in the UK and 24th in the world for finance in QS 2027 Master's Rankings.
5 of our professors have won the British Accounting and Finance Association’s Distinguished or Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sunvin Kim
Republic of Korea MSc Quantitative Finance
“There are many study spaces as well as meeting spaces that students can organise group meetings for their course study or group assignment. Moreover, students can access collections of financial and business databases, such as Bloomberg, WRDS, Datastream in the Finance Zone. As a finance student, it is a great opportunity to experience specialist financial databases that are widely used by researchers and practitioners.”
Faculty of Humanities
The University of Manchester