MSc Sustainable Finance
Manchester, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 22,500
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The drive towards being more sustainable is transforming how we live and work. Choose to study your masters in this fast-evolving and critical area of finance.
The reality is that sustainable finance is not simply one concept. It encompasses everything from carbon accounting and green investment to environmental, social and governance reporting (ESG). Investment in projects with ESG practices is on the rise, as is demand for finance professionals with expertise in this niche yet rapidly growing field.
Features and Benefits
- UK top 3 sustainable university – Manchester Met has been named one of the UK’s leading sustainable universities in the People and Planet University League 2023/2024, having maintained a top-three ranking since 2013.
- Rise programme – all students are eligible to take part in curricular activities with Rise. These might include volunteering, project work and certifications.
- Carbon literacy – during your course we’ll encourage you to complete carbon literacy training, free of charge, to complement your studies.
- Triple accredited – our Business School holds the globally recognised trio of accreditations from EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA, placing us among the best business schools in the world.
Admissions
Curriculum
Year 1
Core modules
- Master Level Learning
- Sustainable Finance and Investing
- Corporate Finance
- Sustainability and Sustainable Development
- Fintech and Sustainability
- Carbon Accounting and Environmental Reporting
- Environmental Economics and Finance
- Governance, Risk and Forensic Accounting
- Extended Research Proposal/Dissertation
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
There are many varied career options for students who complete this course. For accounting and finance graduates, opportunities include further study to complete your professional accountancy qualifications, joining financial institutions or an organisation’s in-house finance team. Your specialist insight into sustainable finance will help future-proof your career by understanding how an organisation/department needs to adapt its working methods to become more sustainable.
For students who enter this course from a non-accounting and finance background, you’ll be able to enter various management roles within organisations or specialist teams with an understanding of how sustainable finance applies to that sector. This knowledge will be fundamental going forward as organisations require staff with management expertise in the field of sustainable finance.
Program delivery
Study
- Full-time 20% lectures, seminars or similar; 0% placement; 80% independent study
Assessment
- Full-time 100% coursework; 0% practical; 0% examination