Master in Finance and Investment (MFI)
Finance is the lynchpin of taught-skills necessary for both navigating enterprises successfully, and ensuring stable economic activity nationally and globally. It is composed of several important facets and thus requires its practitioners to acquire a dedicated, focused and comprehensive set of training, to be appropriately qualified. The Master of Management in Finance & Investment Management (Master in Finance & Investment) at Wits Business School (WBS) is designed to fill this training need.
In fact, a specialization in graduate Finance is a hallmark of most renowned Business Schools globally. The reasons for this phenomenon are: (1) Finance is an indispensable unifying knowledge-area for success in both enterprise and the macro-economy. (2) Finance experts require a program-based training to garner the necessary breadth and depth of knowledge for its effective understanding and application.
Importantly, the WBS’ Master in Finance & Investment program design is motivated by the special need for Finance in the Emerging market context. Gone are the days when Finance was most relevant in the developed market context, due to the fact that financial innovations emanated from this environment, with international finance transactions being essentially an “intra-developed markets” affair. With globalization, emerging markets have become inexorably connected to the dynamism of financial markets and their breathtaking paced innovations. The contagion of the Sub-prime mortgage market (developed markets) originated global financial crisis makes the case for why emerging markets must acquire the requisite capacity needed to understand the workings of financial markets, how to leverage their opportunities, and how to anticipate and mitigate their systemic threats.
The Master in Finance & Investment stands on three necessary pillars of Finance – quantitative/macro-environment foundation knowledge, firm grasp of the workings of financial markets and their evolutionary nature, and solid understanding of corporate finance and governance. The program is for high intelligence and motivated individuals with relevant undergraduate degrees (in e.g., business, economics, engineering, mathematics, statistics and law) who seek to pursue careers in specific areas of finance either as practitioners or researchers. The Master in Finance & Investment requires a set of core courses, track-oriented courses, and a program thesis; with a 12-month, full-time completion period. Being a block-release based program, the duration is designed to equally accommodate students who are working and needing to tool-up quickly for career advancement in the finance field.
The teaching staff is populated by top-rate Finance academics from both WBS and partnering reputed international graduate programs, and practitioners with rich finance industry experience.
Application Process
1. MM Application form from faculty office
2. Brief synopsis or profile of your qualifications, work background
and why you wish to do the qualification.
3. Transcript letter of your last qualification
Please note that all applications for 2010 are officially closed
Documents available for download:
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MFI full brochure
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1.48 MB |
| Application Form.pdf
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80.17 KB |
