Program Overview

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Energy, Trade and Finance MSc

Key information

• Duration: 12 months
• Attendance mode: Full-time
• Location: Bunhill Row, Central London
• Start of programme: September 2025
• Application deadline: Rolling applications
• Entry year: Showing course information for 2025

Overview

The programme is designed to provide skills and knowledge necessary for an individual to pursue a career in different aspects of the energy and commodities trading, shipping and transportation, as well as investment, finance and risk management sectors.

Why choose this course?

• Study on a unique multidisciplinary programme, acquiring specialised and flexible skills and knowledge in demand by employers across the Energy, Trade and Finance industries
• Design your third term to meet your career goals, with a wide choice of specialist electives and opportunities for research projects, including with the Bank of England, Department for Transport and Maritime UK

Course objectives

The MSc in Energy, Trade and Finance fully equips you with the skills and knowledge to operate effectively in the highly competitive international energy markets and the commodity trade industry as well as in the wider financial sector.

Course structure

Induction weeks

All of our MSc courses start with two compulsory induction weeks which include relevant refresher courses, an introduction to the careers services and the annual careers fair.

Term 1

• Accounting and Finance

  • 15 credits
  • 30 hours, over ten weeks, in lectures
  • 70 hours, over ten weeks, self directed study

• Energy Economics

  • 15 credits
  • 30 hours, over ten weeks, in lectures
  • 70 hours, over ten weeks, self-directed study

• Oil and Energy Transportation and Logistics

  • 15 credits
  • 30 hours, over ten weeks, in lectures
  • 70 hours, over ten weeks, self directed-study

• Data Analytics for Shipping, Energy, Trade & Finance

  • 15 credits
  • 36 hours, over ten weeks, in lectures
  • 64 hours, over ten weeks, self directed study

Term 2

• Financial Modelling and Business Analytics

  • 15 credits
  • 42 hours, over ten weeks, in lectures and labs
  • 120 hours, over ten weeks, self0directed study

• Oil and Energy Trading

  • 15 credits
  • 45 hours, over ten weeks, in lectures
  • 120 hours, over ten weeks, self-directed study

• Corporate Finance

  • 15 credits
  • 30 hours, over ten weeks, in lectures
  • 120 hours, over ten weeks, self-directed study

• Power and Renewable Markets.

  • 15 credits
  • 30 hours, over ten weeks, in lectures
  • 120 hours, over ten weeks, self directed study

Term 3

Option 1 – elective study only by taking SMM198 Research Methods and Professional Skills and five electives, 5 x 18 hours specialist electives of 10 credits each.

Option 2 – study through a combination of a taught course and a business research project

• SMM198 Research Methods and Professional Skills plus 2 x 18 hours specialist electives of 10 credits; and
• One General Research Project of 30 credits and a maximum of 5,000 words.

Electives offered in 2024

Please note that electives are subject to change and availability.

• Hedge Funds
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Ethics, Society and the Finance Sector
• Big Data in Commercial Shipping & Trading
• Business Analytics for Energy, Shipping, Trade and Finance
• Shipping Risk Management
• Trade Finance
• Commodity Derivatives & Trading
• Energy Project Investment & Finance
• Fintech in Shipping and Energy Trade & Finance*
• Introduction to Python.

Assessment methods

• Assessed essays
• Examinations
• Group presentations
• Problem sets

Term dates

Term dates 2025/26

• Induction: 15th September 2025 - 26th September 2025
• Term one: 29th September 2025 - 12th December 2025
• Term one exams: 5th January 2026 - 16th January 2026
• Term two: 19th January 2026 - 3rd April 2026
• Term two exams: 20th April 2026 - 1st May 2026
• Term three - international electives: 4th May 2026 - 15th May 2026
• Term three: 18th May 2026 - 3rd July 2026
• Term three exams: 6th July 2026 - 17th July 2026
• Resits: 10th August 2026 - 21st August 2026
• Additional resit week - tests only: 24th August 2026 - 28th August 2026.

Careers

Your skills will be of interest to commodity trading houses, oil & gas companies, professional services firms, shipping-related companies and energy and commodity market information providers.

Recent graduates have secured positions such as:

• Business Analyst
• European Gas Analyst
• Oil Derivatives Junior Broker
• Energy Analyst
• Trader

Fees & funding

International fee

2025 entry

£31,000

Tuition fees are subject to annual change.

UK/Home fee

2025 entry

£29,500

Tuition fees are subject to annual change.

Deposit: £2,000 (paid within 1 month of receiving offer and non-refundable unless conditions of offer are not met).

First installment: Half fees less deposit (payable during on-line registration which should be completed at least 5 days before the start of the induction period).

Second installment: Half fees (paid in January following start of course).

Graduate Loyalty Discount

We are offering a Graduate Loyalty Discount of 20% on tuition fees to all our alumni when applying to any of our degree courses.

Scholarships & bursaries

Scholarships, sponsorships, loans and other funding could support your education at Bayes Business School.

Entry requirements

• A UK upper second class degree or above, or the equivalent from an overseas institution
• Some level of previous study in finance or quantitative methods is preferred
• Work experience is not a requirement of this course.

GMAT

• GMAT is not required for application, but may be requested as a condition of offer at the discretion of the Admissions Panel.

Interview

Applicants selected by the Admissions Panel may be invited to an online interview. We will contact all selected applicants with full instructions after the Admissions Panel has made an initial assessment of your application.

English language requirements

If you have been studying in the UK for the last three years it is unlikely that you will have to take an English language test.

If you have studied in the UK at degree level for less than three years (e.g. 3+1, 2+1, 2+2, etc.) you will be required to provide the results of an approved English language test and possibly resit the test to meet our academic entry requirements.

Full list of approved English language tests/qualifications and minimum requirements.