• Development Finance Practitioners
• Civil Servants
• Staff of Development Finance Institutions
• Staff of Other Financial Institutions
• Entrepreneurs
• Staff of NGOs
• Staff in the Private Sector

• A four-year degree or Honours degree in Economics, Commerce, Accounting, Finance or other finance related degrees.
• Alternatively applicants may have a four-year or Honours degree in other non-finance related discipline with at least 3 years work experience in finance related work.
• Students must be fluent in spoken and written English.
• Applicants are not required to take the GMAT or any other tests.

• Micro-Enterprise Finance
• Project Finance
• International Finance for Development
• Quantitative Methods in Development Finance
• Issues in Development Finance
• Responsible Investment
• Public Sector Finance
• Financial Risk Management
• Research Methods

Students will be required to take a minimum of one elective from the following list:

• Sovereign Debt Management
• WTO and Trade Negotiations
• Global Financial Architecture
• Financial Services Regulation
• International Trade Policies
• Corporate Finance and Investment

GSB faculty

GSB faculty is committed to ensuring that the MCom in Development Finance program is the best in  Africa.

Professor Nicholas Biekpe is the Program Director & Teaches Quantitative Methods in Development Finance

Dr Sean Gossel is Head of Research & Teaches Financial Risk Management

Dr Stephanie Giamporcaro is Head of Academic Coordination and internationalization & Teaches Responsible Investment

Dr Kutlwano Ramaboa Teaches  Research Methodology

International lecturers

The program not only benefits from the expertise of the GSB faculty but also from a range of international lecturers, who bring a practitioner and afropolitan vision to complete the range of financial topics taught in the program.

Core courses and elective are validated through the successful completion of a range of assignments: a mini-test in class, a final exam in class and an essay/case study to be written outside class are usually requested by lecturers.  

In addition students must write and submit a research report on a suitable topic to round off the degree.

Each student will be required to write a report in one of the following formats:

• Writing and analysing a major work-related case study.
• Writing an essay-type scientific report which delves deeply into a particular issue of interest to the student.
• Writing a journal article related to one or more of the modules on the degree programme.

The degree is offered as a 2-year modular programme.  A first intensive modular (2 weeks) period takes place in the period March/April of the first year.  A second intensive modular period (2 weeks) is organized in August of the first year. The second year an intensive modular period takes place in February. The rest of the year is dedicated to the writing of the compulsory research report.

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Please note that applicants are not required to take the GMAT or any other tests

Tuition fees for the 2014 programmes are under review. Our website will be updated during August 2013 with provisional fees. The final approved 2014 fees will be known only in November 2013. As a guideline, please refer to the fees for 2013 

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