About Birmingham

The University of Birmingham, founded in 1900 as the UK’s first ‘civic’ university, represented a new higher education model led by local citizens to meet the needs of the community. Today, it is an outstanding University with global reach and currently ranked 84th in the QS World University Rankings (2024). Birmingham Business School, established as the faculty of commerce, is the largest school in University and one of the oldest Business School in the UK. Birmingham Business School holds the gold standard of ‘triple-crown’ accreditation from the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) , AMBA (Association of MBAs) and EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System).

About Postgraduate Programmes

Speakers will introduce Birmingham Business School and Department of Economics, and present the curriculum of those three MSc programmes (triple-crowne):

• MSc Money, Banking and Finance

• MSc Financial Economics

• MSc Economics

The triple-crowne accreditation Birmingham Business School holds is an informative and reliable indication of quality in MSc education. Furthermore, Birmingham aim to provide students the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills on finance, banking system and economic activities in the context of globalization, such as monetary economics and macroeconomy, fundamentals of banking and financial institutions, responsible banking and financial data analytics. In terms of employability, by completing this programme, Birmingham equip students with the finance and economic theory and advanced quantitative methods for corporate banking or a role with a regulator.

About the Speaker

1. Prof. Anindya Banerjee is Head of the Department of Economics at Birmingham Business School. He joined the Department of Economics in January 2008 as Professor in Economics. Before coming to Birmingham, he was Professor at the European University Institute in Florence and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Professor Banerjee received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. His interests lie in time series econometrics, including factor models, and the econometrics of integrated panel data.

2. Dr. Yao YAO is Associate Professor in Economics and PGT programme director for MSc programmes at Department of Economics, University of Birmingham. Her role involves all areas on teaching management and students support for MSc Money, Banking and Finance, MSc Financial Economics and MSc Economics, the three MSc programmes Department of Economics currently offers.