How is Lancaster Uni---MSc in Finance ??

briancsy

How is Lancaster Uni's Master in Finance? Anybody can share your precious views?

I heard that its MSc in Finance is quite strong!

Lancaster is one of two 6-star business school (LBS and Lancaster) in the UK. http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/AboutSchool/6star/

In addition, in 2005, Lancaster MBA rank top 39 in the world and Top 3rd in the UK (LBS, Oxford, Lancaster, Cambridge........) according to "Financial Times" http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/mba/rankings.html

The chairman (Professor Xu) of department of Finance in Peking Uni is also graduated from PhD in Finance in Lancaster Uni. http://www.gsm.pku.edu.cn/viewfaculty.asp?tid=48

徐信忠

• 专业:   
  
  
• 系别:  金融系
  
  
• 职称:  教授
  
  
• 职务:  系主任
  
  
• 办公电话:  +86 10 6276 5135
  
  
• Email:  xuxz@gsm.pku.edu.cn
  
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    教育背景:

    
    

    1981年9月至1985年7月在北京大学气象学专业学习，取得学士学位；

    
    

    1987年9月至1989年6月在英国Aston大学工商管理专业学习，取得硕士学位(MBA)；

    
    

    1989年9月至1993年12月在英国Lancaster大学金融学专业学习，取得博士学位

自我介绍:

现任北京大学光华管理学院金融学教授兼金融系主任。在加入北京大学之前，曾任英国Bank of England货币政策局担任金融经济学家和英国Lancaster大学管理学院金融学讲座教授。本人曾任中国金融学年会第一届理事会主席。

本人在公司治理，行为金融和金融风险管理和资产定价等领域有多年的研究经验，取得了丰富的研究成果，并在国际和国内一流学术杂志上发表文章16篇。 发表论文的学术期刊包括Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Review of Economics and Statistics.

本人的研究成果受到国际同行的认可，发表的论文被大量引用，并获得British Accounting Review 1997最佳论文奖和2002年澳大利亚金融国际会议衍生产品领域的最佳论文奖。本人的研究成果具有极强的实用价值，上述发表的论文已多次被金融应用性书籍转载，并应邀在英格兰银行，瑞士联合银行，日本三菱银行等金融机构作学术演讲。关于隐含波动率期限结构（Term Structure）的学术文章被金融衍生产品的经典教科书《Options, Futures, and other derivatives by John Hull》引用；关于“恋家”倾向的研究成果被《纽约时报》报道。

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So, is it Lancaster strong in Accounting and Finance discipline?

If anyone can share your precious views, it would be appreciated greatly!!!

vivitian

Gary Xu was our professor two years ago, i also met him in Peking Uni 2years ago when he first started his position in there. Lancaster is boring, but if you really wanna pursue a academic career, it is a heaven, but if you want a job in finance section, go to london...

nicholas_8

Lancaster is great in Accounting and Finance!

Professor Gary Xu, the chairman of the department of Finance in Peking University, is very execellent!

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