Financial Strategy PgDip

University of Oxford

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The Oxford Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Financial Strategy is an opportunity for you to accelerate your career to the most senior levels whilst gaining a University of Oxford qualification</MS&&>. Designed for experienced finance practitioners and managers, it provides its graduates with highly-developed financial acumen, strategy techniques and business knowledge.

This page describes the course that will run from January 2023. All information provided, including fees and additional costs, is specific to entry in the 2022-23 academic year. Information about the course that will run from January 2022 (the 2021-22 academic year) can be found in its Course Information Sheet. If it is still possible to apply for entry in the 2021-22 academic year, further information will be provided on the diplomas page on the school's website.

Rigorous, selective and intellectually challenging, the part-time programme delivers the finance and strategy components from Oxford’s Executive MBA. It is taught in four modules of four days each (Wednesday to Saturday), allowing you to study alongside employment and complete the qualification in one year. Each module (see further details) consists of approximately 24 hours of supported study. Students are advised that approximately 6-8 hours of self-directed study per week outside of the modules is required.

The modules currently offered are:

• Strategy

• Business Finance

• Corporate Valuation

• Financial Strategies for Growth

The Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Strategy offers:

• the ability to apply expert analysis techniques in corporate and business strategy, investment appraisal, capital structure and corporate valuation;

• access to top-level teaching from world-leading experts, drawing on Oxford University’s strengths in finance and strategy;

• membership of a unique network of peers and practitioners from around the globe;

• a graduate-level qualification which builds on your existing professional development and experience; and

• lifelong association with the university through the Business School and university alumni networks, as well as a pathway to Oxford's Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA).

Please note that this course is paperless. This means that paper handouts will not be provided for most of your courses. All presentations will be uploaded to our virtual learning environment. For pedagogical reasons this may be in advance of, just before or immediately after teaching sessions. Handouts will be provided for certain courses based on specific requirements, eg unreliable internet availability or where handouts operate more like a textbook than slides.