Economics and Finance

Throughout the Economics and Finance MSc program from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University by the time you graduate you will have:

• a solid understanding of core and advanced principles, theories and models relevant to finance and financial management

• the ability to explain, understand and apply statistical and econometric techniques and their application to the analysis of financial information and data

• knowledge of portfolio selection, risk and risk management, and the macroeconomic context of international financial transactions

• skills in creative and critical thinking, problem-solving, data collection and analysis, and report writing.

Career opportunities:

Graduates from this program are well prepared for roles such as portfolio manager, investment strategy analyst, director of research, market risk analyst, head of investor relations, senior economist and industrial economist. Graduates can find employment in the financial sector, and with central banks and other monetary financial institutions, as well as in international organisations, academia, research institutions and the wider business sector, especially within multinational enterprises. The program also offers a solid foundation for pursuing a PhD.

Courses include:

• Time Series Analysis

• Macroeconomics

• International Finance and Economics

• Econometrics

• Financial Economics

• Money and Banking