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  • Qualification

    MSc - Master of Science

  • Location

    Main Site

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    SEP

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

Explore key issues and challenges in finance for economic development in developing countries with our MSc Development Finance master’s degree.You will examine the key issues in development finance, and conduct analysis of financial markets in emerging economies, financial sector reform, and policies and institutions, to promote financial inclusion.Your MSc Development Finance degree will: join the highest placed UK university for Agriculture and Forestry at 20th in the world (QS World Rankings by Subject, Agriculture and Forestry, 2025), with its own farms and specialist facilities, explore key issues within the field of development finance and microenterprise finance, against the background of major perspectives on development and macroeconomic policy, investigate specialist areas within the financial services sector as well as other topics relating to development.

Application deadline

01/08/2025

Tuition fees

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(International fees)

£ 26,450per year

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University information

University of Reading

University of Reading

  • University League Table

    36th

  • Campus address

    Whiteknights Campus, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6UD, United Kingdom

The University of Reading is an international community with more than 26,000 students from around 160 countries. 
Reading is a lively town just 22 minutes from London Paddington by train, and 45 minutes from Heathrow Airport by coach. Windsor and Oxford are also close by.
Reading supports undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students to maintain, improve and develop their academic English.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    30th out of 102 3

  • Entry standards

    / Max 233
    127 55%

    37th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    84.0 84%

    13th

    3
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.08 77%

    67th

    35

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