University of Kent

Working in investment and risk means playing a crucial role in determining financial, safety and security risks and spotting investment opportunities for a business. It requires a detailed knowledge of the workings of enterprise and the ability to keep your cool in a pressured environment.

Study our CFA and GARP-accredited Master’s to gain a strong knowledge of financial, risk and investment management principles and techniques, and the confidence necessary to work the trading floor via our real-life simulator, The Bloomberg Lab alongside the option to take an exciting Industrial Placement.

Reasons to study MSc Finance, Investment and Risk at Kent

• First-class facilities at our Canterbury campus, close to London
• Study at a ‘Triple Crown’ accredited business school
• Our expert teaching staff appear in the top 2% of researchers worldwide
• Take part in the Business Start-Up Journey through ASPIRE
• Enhance your experience through an Industrial Placement
• Help SMEs through an In-Company Student Consultancy Project
• Excellent Postgraduate funding options available
• Access to real market data via our Bloomberg Lab

The MA in the History and Archaeology of the Greek and Roman Worlds allows you to integrate the sometimes contradictory material and textual evidence of antiquity, together with their different forms of heritage.

You will learn an unusually broad range of advanced methods in studying Greece and Rome - cultural, intellectual and archaeological - from antiquity to the 21st century. When choosing from our variety of optional modules, you can specialise in either civilisation, or study both. We invite you to join our thriving, creative, and supportive comm­unity of scholars beyond the classroom in regular postgraduate social meetings, weekly seminars, and site visits.

This one-year MA degree (which can also be taken over two years as a part-time course) allows you to develop a broad understanding of ways to analyse sites, architecture, cities, objects, texts, and archaeological data. It allows you to develop a wide range of skills in interpreting texts, objects and data related to ancient Greece and Rome, and teaches you how to ask the most important questions. The course is designed to give you a thorough training in the theories, methods, and concepts now shaping the study of the ancient world.

You can gain the skills of the archaeologist, the ancient Greek or Latin linguist, and the historian, through hands-on learning at fieldwork sites, in the classroom, and in museums and archives. With this qualification, you will be equipped for future work involving independent research skills, in academia, heritage, or beyond.

Two core modules in history and archaeology will provide a solid foundation for your dissertation, a substantial independent research project on a topic of your choice. In our wide range of optional modules, you will hone your analytical skills and deepen your knowledge of Greece and Rome. All MA modules are informed by cutting edge research and taught by friendly, internationally-recognised experts, who will provide personalised supervision as you develop your own research specialisms.

The Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies is advantageously situated on a campus overlooking Canterbury city centre, a designated Area of Archaeological Importance that contains Canterbury Roman Museum and the UNESCO world heritage site of Canterbury Cathedral. The Department has long-standing collaborations with Canterbury Archaeological Trust, the Kent Archaeological Society, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, and the Trust for Thanet Archaeology.

Just an hour by train from London’s British Museum, Museum of London Archaeology, and British Library, we are well-placed for all your research needs. We are also the UK’s closest university to Europe, and less than two hours away is another capital city, Paris, with its Louvre Museum and Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Our nearness to these world-leading resources, combined with our own excellent laboratory and library collections, form an attractive setting for your research on a dissertation topic. In the summer term, one of our experts will guide you to explore your own interests in a substantial independent research project, using all the skills that you have gained during your 12-month MA.

This is an ideal degree for graduates of Archaeology, Ancient History, Classics, History, or the wider humanities, who want to engage deeply with the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and develop a range of research skills.

This MSc is aimed at computing graduates with strong programming skills seeking careers as cyber security professionals or careers that need a systematic and deep understanding of the subject. It would also be an excellent starting point for those wishing to carry out further research in cyber security. Taught Master’s programmes are available with an optional industrial placement

You'll learn an overview of global strategy, global value chains, international accounting and organisational behaviour, managing the multinational enterprise, within human resource management in a global context and international accounting for decision making. You will end your Master's with a research project allowing you to apply what you have learned and benefit from the supervision by an international business expert.

tudying Leadership and Management will open doors to many exciting employment roles. A good leader needs management skills, communication skills, organisational skills and team-building ability, but they also require a deep knowledge of business in order to lead the innovation of products and processes in a sustainable way
 

MSc Leadership and Management course at Kent Business School will enable you to kickstart a career at the top of a chosen field by building graduates who strategise effectively and solve problems, efficiently. Through detailed learning of leadership and management theory, alongside practical experience, you’ll graduate ready to manage change and lead teams successfully.

This taught programme considers how social psychology can be applied to a wide range of social problems and answer key questions such as: How are attitudes formed and developed, and how do they relate to behaviour? What are the key motives that affect people’s reactions to the social world? What social psychological processes are implicated in the form and content of language and communication?

You will gain a thorough grounding in research methods, and conduct a project in an area of social/applied psychology that interests you. The programme is taught by the School’s outstanding research group in social psychology.

Our teaching and research covers the psychology of intergroup behaviour, group decision and performance, attitudes and persuasion, organisational psychology, social cognition, children’s self-concept and social attitudes, and cross-cultural questions, relating social psychological research in these areas to social problems. Course tutors include academics and experts who work in the media, the health service and other applied settings.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management is the process of managing a product from creation to transportation. It involves processing orders, storing, moving and delivering of goods, but also predicting the future needs of your customers.
 

On this detail-driven Master's, our in-house academic experts and industry leaders teach you the vital theory, models, systems and experience to succeed in this area. You’ll graduate with the ability to plan, predict and perform in an ever-important field.

Taking a 12-month industrial placement allows you to gain work experience in the UK or overseas as part of your Master's. While the placements are self-sought, the School offers support through extra-curricular engagement with our dedicated placements team. Opting for this course with a placement takes the length of your course to up to two years.

The programme provides a challenging, exciting and dynamic learning experience. Building on your existing experiences and background knowledge, the MA draws heavily on the Kent School of Architecture and Planning’s work in the University’s European campuses and study centres to develop your research and analytical capabilities.

During your studies, you develop an understanding of the planning profession with reference to how people and places interact. You take into account the unique needs and characteristics of different places and people through working with city teams in Canterbury and beyond.

You develop a range of problem solving, interpersonal and teamwork skills across the modules which complement the theory and enhance its application in practice. We develop your ability to work effectively within business, social and neighbourhood forums.

The programme provides training in the modern practical, academic and research skills that are used in academia and industry. Through a combination of lectures, small-group seminars and practical classes, you apply this training towards the development of new strategies to combat the spread of infectious diseases.

You learn skills in experimental design using appropriate case studies that embed you within the relevant research literature. You also gain experience of analysis and statistical interpretation of complex experimental data.

The programme culminates with a research project under the supervision of faculty that currently perform research on disease-causing microorganisms.

Our Microbiology course provides research expertise and professional skills in contemporary microbiology, opening up a future career in academic research or in the health-care sector. You have the opportunity to conduct a research project in the field of bacteriology, medical and basic mycology, virology and parasitology. You gain a cross-disciplinary training from genetic engineering to drug development. Your research will contribute to a range of fields including Infectious diseases, Cellular architecture and dynamics and Industrial biotechnology.
 

You are based in a research lab and undertake research on a project agreed with your Research Supervisor (view our available research projects page). As this is a research-focused master's course, you take an interactive approach to learning, rather than taking traditional lectures. Seminars, workshops and lab meetings enable you to gain an in-depth understanding of the field. A wide range of courses and workshops are available for your professional development as a research scientist.

Study for the MSc degree, a one-year research project (Full time), can also be undertaken as a two-year project (Part time). In all our research degrees you undertake a single, focused, research project from day one, and attend only certain components of our transferable skills modules. Our research degree students are supervised by supervisory teams which comprise their main supervisor(s) as well as supervisory chairs that give independent advice on progression. The MSc culminates in the submission of a written research dissertation and oral viva voce examination. Additionally, you present your results at the annual Postgraduate Symposium in July.

The MSc in Development Economics provides training in the application of economic principles to the problems of international development. While providing deep insight into the problems faced by contemporary developing economies, the programme discusses the wide range of policies aimed at overcoming economic underdevelopment.

Overview

The programme combines classical approaches to understanding the process of development with modern explanations, which involve research into social organisation and psychology. It scrutinises development through the lens of social norms and interactions, which in traditional societies are as strong as market forces themselves. The programme trains highly qualified professionals to pursue careers in national and international organisations that foster economic development. It strongly capitalizes on the School’s unique decades-long research expertise in the area.

All of our MSc degrees equip you with a range of quantitative and analytical skills, and the ability to communicate complex economic concepts in a clear and concise style. Our programmes not only offer a stimulating education in economic theory, but also develop your ability to apply economic knowledge, analytical tools and skills to a range of national and international problems in the areas of finance, development, agriculture and the environment.

Finance is a broad but booming sector, working within it means you may be involved in investing money, managing it, protecting it or accounting for it. Good finance workers need a head for numbers, detail-driven organisational skills but also the ability to communicate well and work under pressure.

Our CFA, PRMIA and GARP-accredited course in Finance sculpts graduates who understand financial needs and risks of enterprise and have a good handle of the systems and longstanding practices to succeed in this field. Taught by academic experts and co-designed with industry experts our MSc develops highly employable graduates.

Taking a 12-month industrial placement allows you to gain work experience in the UK or overseas as part of your Master's. While the placements are self-sought, the School offers support through extra-curricular engagement with our dedicated placements team. Opting for this course with a placement takes the length of your course to up to two years.

The MSc in Statistical Data Science is excellent preparation for careers in any field requiring a strong background in data science, with particular emphasis on statistics.

Overview

The programme, which has recently been updated, trains data scientists for posts in any of the multitude of companies and organisations that make use of data. Core modules give a thorough grounding in modern applications of statistics to data science and there is the opportunity to choose additional topics to study.
 

Statistical Data Science at Kent provides:

• a programme that gives you the opportunity to develop practical, mathematical and computing skills in statistics, while working on challenging and important problems relevant to a broad change of potential employers
• teaching and supervision by staff who are research-active, with established reputations and who are accessible, supportive and genuinely interested in your work.
• advanced and accessible computing and other facilities
• a congenial work atmosphere with pleasant surroundings, where you can socialise and discuss issues with a community of other students