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