PhD Finance
| Duration | Full time: 2-4 years
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| Course type | Full-time, Part-time route available |
| Study location | Â鶹´«Ã½ |
Exploring the major challenges in today’s global financial markets and institutions and corporate ventures, PhD Finance will provide you with inspiring opportunities to undertake top level research on modern finance and investment frontiers. Supervised by scholars renowned in their fields, you’ll explore curious issues arising from the latest developments in finance research and industry practice, enriching the literature on your chosen topics.
Course details
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Programme overview
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This full time or part time doctoral programme is suitable for people who have a particular research question or topic in mind, and wish to explore this through independent study in order to produce an original contribution to the subject. If you aspire to a research career this is the most appropriate research degree to undertake.You will be guided by a small supervisory team of academic experts under the direction of a Director of Studies.You will be expected to fully engage with skills development and training and to present your research in a range of scholarly contexts.Your PhD will be assessed via submission of a written thesis (up to 80,000 words) and a viva voce(an oral examination).For full details of what doing a PhD entails at the Â鶹´«Ã½, please visit our
postgraduate research degrees page.
Entry requirements
Applicants are expected to have completed a masters level qualification to a high standard (e.g. at 'merit' or 'distinction' level) as well as either a 2:1 or first class honours undergraduate degree in an area of study appropriate to your project proposal. We are happy to consider equivalent qualifications (for instance, you may have studied different subjects at undergraduate and masters level but have accumulated rich working experience in the proposed area since then).
If you do not have a masters level qualification, we recommend you consider applying for our
MSc Finance
programme.
You will also need to provide evidence that you are ready to pursue the project you propose in your application. This will take the form of a research proposal.
If English is not your first language, you must have proficiency in written and spoken English (normally a minimum test score of 6.5 for IELTS, or equivalent). Given the nature of the programme, you’ll be expected to read and engage with complex theoretical texts and debates for which fluency in English is essential.
For more general guidelines and application requirements, please visit the
apply for a postgraduate research programme page.
Fees, costs and funding
Please visit our
Fees and costs of studying
page for information about fees. PhD Finance is in Band 1 for fees purposes.
You are responsible for meeting all of the costs related to your own research project, beyond the resources available in the department.
Please visit our
postgraduate research: money matters
page to find out more about issues related to fees, funding, loans and paying for your programme of study.