Sustainable Business, Energy and Finance (MSc)

Overview

The MSc Sustainable Business, Energy and Finance educates students in the science, economics, politics, ethics and business of what we call the 'Climate Change World' - reflecting our belief that we have entered a new era characterised by new global dynamics. The MSc will be largely research-led and problem based and, where appropriate, run as a series of workshops in which students working in various configurations tackle pertinent problems. Our aim is that on completion our students will be in a position to influence the strategic direction of the businesses/organisations that employ them. In order to do this they must have state of the art knowledge of practice, as well as a wide range of high-level analytical tools and conceptual frameworks enabling them to apply that knowledge and to assess risk. These attributes will be attractive to potential employers.

The MSc Sustainable Business, Energy and Finance runs under the umbrella of the Centre for International Business and Sustainability (CIBS) at London Metropolitan Business School.

For more details including a downloadable course brochure visit the CIBS webpage.

London Metropolitan Business School

Applying and entry

PLEASE NOTE There is no official closing date for this course, but you are advised to apply as early as possible as we will only consider your application if there are places available on the course.

Tel: 020 7133 4202
Email: admissions@londonmet.ac.uk

A good degree in science, engineering, business, economics or a quantitative subject or a good degree in any subject plus two years work experience in economics, energy planning or any similar role involving forecasting, statistics or other business planning role

Course contents

You will take six core modules and write a dissertation of around 15,000 words.

Core modules:

• Sustainable Development
• Quantitative Research Methods
• Resource Economics
• Global Environmental Governance
• Energy Scenarios for Business Planning
• Computational Finance for Energy
• Dissertation

Read more about the modules

For the delivery of the modules, only one day of attendance is required as some modules are delivered in the evening. However, more than one evening of attendance might be required.

Assessment

You are assessed via essays, individual and group research projects and a final dissertation.

Collaborative and international links

We have strong collaborative links with The Centre for Knowledge Transfer at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, as well as emerging links with the Association of Baltic Universities and the Centre for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC), UMASS - Boston.

We are also actively developing links with a number of companies whose core business is ‘sustainability’ and expect that many student dissertations will be written in collaboration with them.

Careers

Successful completion of this course will make candidates attractive to those employers across industry developing strategic approaches to the rapidly changing business environment.