Senior Investment and Commercial Banking Professional Apprenticeship PgDip + MSc

The Senior Investment and Commercial Banking Professional Apprenticeship provides a unique opportunity for you to gain an advanced-level understanding of a wide range of management functions and to develop specialist knowledge in economics, finance, and sustainable development goals relevant to the financial services sector.

This program will provide you with the foundations of the various dimensions of retail banking and several aspects of general management, such as analysis of the economic environment, financial management, organizational management, strategic marketing, and business strategy, and aims to improve your critical awareness of management and organizations.

In addition, the work-based project allows you to tackle a substantial task within your organization under the guidance of academic supervisors. Through responsible practical application, it will also enable you to advance your knowledge and skills so you can contribute towards a more sustainable retail banking industry and perform effectively and efficiently in the highly competitive and fast-changing retail and digital banking sector, which is also challenged to become more sustainable.

Drawing on faculty from across Cranfield School of Management, the program is led by Cranfield’s Economics and Banking Group, which has been consistently ranked UK top 10 in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking for its teaching of economics in relation to our full-time MBA program.

Additionally, this program provides employer organizations the ability to sponsor multiple high-potential employees. It will be particularly attractive to financial institutions that want to use their apprenticeship levy to develop their early career employees in retail banking.

Why this course?

• Develop specialist knowledge in economics, finance, and sustainable development goals relevant to the financial services sector.
• The program will improve your critical awareness of management and organizations, and enhance your skills to successfully address financial and management challenges within your organization.
• A workplace-based project provides the opportunity for you to tackle a substantial product management task within your organization, under the guidance of academic supervisors.
• You will benefit from a combination of online and face-to-face teaching, providing you with the flexibility to work around existing commitments.
• Not only will this MSc broaden and deepen your professional network, but you'll also join Cranfield’s active alumni network of 75,000 managers and leaders across the globe.
• This MSc incorporates the School of Management’s experiences and learning from our UK top 10 ranked Master’s in Finance and Management: QS World University Rankings: Masters in Finance ranking 2022 and our Management MSc ranked UK top 10 in the Financial Times: Masters in Management 2021 ranking.

Overview

• Duration: 2 years part-time
• Qualification: MSc, PgDip
• Study Type: part-time
• Campus: Cranfield campus, Online

A world-leader in management education, research, and consultancy for over 50 years, Cranfield School of Management is an exclusively postgraduate business school whose mission is to improve the practice of management. We have a global reputation for developing high-performing leaders in technology and management - encouraging them to transform their organisations and wider society.

Renowned for our strong links with industry, Cranfield is both about business and for business. We are a centre of world-class research, expertise, and teaching, providing practical management solutions through a range of activities including leadership, finance, marketing, logistics and supply chain management.

We are one of an elite group of Schools worldwide to hold the triple accreditation from AACSB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) and AMBA (the Association of MBAs).

What makes Cranfield School of Management unique?

• Ranked 3rd in the UK and 6th in the world in the Business School Teaching Power Rankings 2021 compiled for the Financial Times.
• Unrivalled teaching experience. You will be part of small learning teams, ensuring close contact and continuous support.
• A mature learning environment. As we are a postgraduate-only university, you will be surrounded by like-minded individuals who are driven to succeed in their chosen careers.
• Career-focused learning. Because our teaching is exclusively focused on postgraduate and executive levels, it is designed to nurture your practical business skills and confidence and places a huge emphasis on real-world challenges.
• Our extensive alumni network. You will join our network of 75,000+ graduates, many of whom now hold senior roles within some of the world’s leading organisations.