Admissions

Entry Requirements

You will need to have obtained an honours degree (preferably but not necessarily in economics, business or finance) with at least a grade of upper second or equivalent. You will also need to sit the GMAT examination and ensure that the School receives the details. A GMAT of 550 or more is suggested.

If English is not your native language, or you have not undertaken your undergraduate degree through English, you will also need to satisfy the university language requirements.

Finally, if the admissions committee deems that you have insufficient preparation in management, economics, data analysis or financial statement analysis, we may require you to attend a brief course in one or more of these areas. You will have to attend and pass any examination of these courses prior to commencing the programme.

How to Apply

Application should be made only via the Postgraduate Online Applicaton System at WWW.PAC.IE  If you do not have your final degree results, include detailed transcripts for each year you have completed and forward your final results as soon as you receive the details. Please click here for further details.

Duration

The MSc has two options: the fulltime course lasts 11 months, with coursework over the September-April period and dissertation work over the May-July period. Part-time students can  take the course over two years, with the dissertation to be completed by the end of December of the second year.

The course delivery is in an intensive block format. Part-time and full-time students both attend the same course of instruction. Typically each module (c 24h class contact) is delivered over a one week block, in the afternoons and early evening and also on Saturday. Parttime students would need therefore to put aside c3 weeks class time per semester, over 4 semesters or two years. See here the timetable for the 2008-9 course (link to pdf)