MBA with Fintech and Digital Finance
This full-time MBA combines broad business and leadership study with specialist learning in fintech and digital finance. It may suit graduates and professionals seeking to build management knowledge while examining AI, blockchain, digital finance, regulation, risk and responsible business practice.
About this course
This MBA combines core management study with a focus on fintech and digital finance. It is designed for professionals who want to understand how technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and cloud-based tools are changing financial services, organisational decision-making and business operations.
Alongside finance and technology, the course addresses strategic accounting, marketing, operations, human capital management, legal frameworks and sustainable development. You will consider digital risk management, compliance, evolving regulation, data privacy, ESG and responsible leadership, including the implications of AI regulation.
The course uses MBA Challenge modules to develop leadership thinking, strategy formulation and the ability to integrate decisions across an organisation. A final integrated development and career design element supports you in relating your learning to your future professional direction.
Full-time study is available over one year. A two-year full-time Professional Practice programme is also available.
What you will study
Modules include:
- AI and Analytics for Strategic Decisions - Economic Paradigms for Sustainable Development - The MBA Challenge: Creating the Leader’s Mindset - Enterprise Transformation: AI and Beyond - Strategic Legal Frameworks for Global Business - Strategic Accounting and Decision Making - Marketing and Value Creation in an AI-Driven World - Fintech for MBA - The MBA Challenge: Strategy Formulation and Execution - Technology Driven Operations Management - Human Capital Management - Digital Finance - The MBA Challenge: Integrating the Organisation - Integrated Development and Career Design
Topics include decentralised finance (DeFi), venture capital and fintech startups, digital risk management, compliance frameworks, ESG, AI regulation, data privacy, ethics and sustainability.
Modules
Year 1 - Semester 1
- AI and Analytics for Strategic Decisions (core)
- Economic Paradigms for Sustainable Development (core)
- The MBA Challenge: Creating the Leader’s Mindset (core)
- Enterprise Transformation: AI and Beyond (optional)
- Strategic Legal Frameworks for Global Business (optional)
Year 1 - Semester 2
- Strategic Accounting and Decision Making (core)
- Marketing and Value Creation in an AI-Driven World (core)
- Fintech for MBA (core)
- The MBA Challenge: Strategy Formulation and Execution (core)
Year 1 - Semester 3
- Technology Driven Operations Management (core)
- Human Capital Management (core)
- Digital Finance (core)
- The MBA Challenge: Integrating the Organisation (core)
- Integrated Development and Career Design (core)
Assessment
Assessment includes tests, presentations, individual and group projects, portfolios and class participation. Seminars and workshops support learning throughout the course.
Entry requirements
A UK bachelor's degree with a 2:2 classification or above, or an equivalent qualification.
English language requirements
English language ability equivalent to IELTS 6.0 overall, with a minimum of 5.5 in each component.
Careers
This MBA may support progression into roles such as fintech management consultant or general manager.
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