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Rank: Member Joined: 8/12/2010 Posts: 129 Location: nairobi
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Hi guys, anyone interested in doing a local msc in finance? look no further Kenyatta university have the program and so does kemu! for mor details click the link below http://www.ku.ac.ke/scho.../programmes/graduate/31
Actually the first lot of students have been admitted(KU) and the number is suprising..10 yea only ten not because of the cost but coz its popularity its not as popular as an mba in finance, i really hope it can develop a widespread interest. This is the perfect course for those who want to advance themselves in the field of finance!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/2/2009 Posts: 2,458 Location: Nairobi
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thanks for the info..
does any one know the Academic calendar for these institutions MBA classes. Im suprised their websites(as third rate as they are) have everything apart from the academic calendar.
UoN
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/12/2010 Posts: 129 Location: nairobi
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poundfoolish wrote:thanks for the info..
does any one know the Academic calendar for these institutions MBA classes. Im suprised their websites(as third rate as they are) have everything apart from the academic calendar.
UoN unless you go tho their offices and enquire say on sat morning. they usually dont post them.
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Rank: Member Joined: 12/17/2009 Posts: 121 Location: Nairobi
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to view the academic programme, go here: http://www.ku.ac.ke/index.php
and then click on resources. On Christ Alone
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Rank: Elder Joined: 5/27/2008 Posts: 3,760
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MSc Finance. 1st stop Strathmore 2nd stop Inoreero.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 5/24/2010 Posts: 846 Location: KENYA
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Msc Finance...1st stop, the financial markets. If you fail a course you lose money, now thats practical!
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/12/2010 Posts: 129 Location: nairobi
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The Merchant wrote:Msc Finance...1st stop, the financial markets. If you fail a course you lose money, now thats practical! dont you think the fundamentals need to be the first stop-college, then the practical bit comes later?
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/12/2010 Posts: 129 Location: nairobi
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@Gordon Gekko does strath really have the msc in finance? i bet it would cost 500,000 shillings
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/7/2007 Posts: 2,182
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The Merchant wrote:Msc Finance...1st stop, the financial markets. If you fail a course you lose money, now thats practical!  LOVE WHAT YOU DO, DO WHAT YOU LOVE.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 1/21/2010 Posts: 6,675 Location: Nairobi
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emlyn ngwiri wrote:@Gordon Gekko does strath really have the msc in finance? i bet it would cost 500,000 shillings @emlyn there is no MSC finance in strathmore just CFA and MBA Mark 12:29
Deuteronomy 4:16
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 5/24/2010 Posts: 846 Location: KENYA
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emlyn ngwiri wrote:The Merchant wrote:Msc Finance...1st stop, the financial markets. If you fail a course you lose money, now thats practical! dont you think the fundamentals need to be the first stop-college, then the practical bit comes later? I believe one has to know what they are looking for or rather hoping to gain from studying towards an Msc in anything. I f you play the markets you can identify areas you need to learn more or areas you do not need any further knowledge. You may even play the markets and find out that you need to study mathematics not finance! Point is most people do MBA or whatever just for the name, they know very little. Now I am not saying MBAs are not important, all I am saying is what are you learining or hoping to gain. If you cannot answer that dive into the markets and you will find out and hopefully make some money! If you lose money add that to your cost of education! 
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/12/2010 Posts: 129 Location: nairobi
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/12/2010 Posts: 129 Location: nairobi
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i just started the msc finance program at K.U.and it seems to be much more relevant to the field of finance than doing an mba finance.the units are more of a science rather than an art and so the msc finance uses a practical approach in its illustrations.
i tell you guys,its a one year course that you will never regret.
units: SEM 1
Financial econometrics
Finance theory
Manegerial Economics
Applied Statistics
Finance seminar (case study of kenyan companies)
Financial intermediation
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Rank: Member Joined: 3/17/2008 Posts: 567 Location: Nairobi
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@emlyn
Have you also done MBA finance to make that conclusion?
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/12/2010 Posts: 129 Location: nairobi
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i have not done an Mba but looking the curriculum for the Mba UON,MOI,USIU and KCA, CASE case studies,financial analysis using past financial data for kenyan companies is not done. furthermore use of optimization softwares such as SPSS and EVIEWS to analyze stock market data is never put as an add-on to the mba inance curriculum.
furthermore, if one has done a Bcom finance and one wants to do an mba, the units covered are the same ,financial accounting 1&2, financial markets and institutions and many others are covered again.
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 1/17/2011 Posts: 26 Location: nairobi kenya
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Kemu also offers Msc Finance and Investment and i agree, i did a BCOM in Banking and Finance and the units in MBA are all similar to what i did. I think Kemu's 1st sem is Financial management, analysis of corporate financial statements,statistics of finance,investment mathematics and financial markets
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Rank: Member Joined: 3/17/2008 Posts: 567 Location: Nairobi
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I think that the course to do depends on you purpose. I.e if youre working for a say a cement company and trying to go up the corporate ladder MBA may do the trick for you. If you want more research, analysis, teaching type work maybe MSc. would suit you better.
Tough courses doesn't mean more money. Ask Agricultural Engineers.
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/12/2010 Posts: 129 Location: nairobi
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the big question then, 'isn it in order for one to do what one has already done as an add-on or is it better to get knowledge for something that one has not done?
in my view analysis of curriculum is important because value addition is paramount to take this country forward.
i did an analysis if mba courses that offer relevant finance courses for the financial market and found that only the msc finance from K.U is the most worthy of curriculum for the financial maket sector (after cfa)
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 1/17/2011 Posts: 26 Location: nairobi kenya
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@emlyn, one needs to further on their undergraduate course since you gain more insight and you are in a position to articulate more issues in your profession though in my experience, economics,finance and accounting are three important fields that are relevant for anyone to claim that he/she is able to consult or is a guru in the field of finance. Economics helps in predicting future macroeconomic factors that affect the financial systems which will be useful in a derivatives market, in international financial management and foreign exchange risks etc. As for a/c,without a/c then what would we analyze?
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/12/2010 Posts: 129 Location: nairobi
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brian i understand what you are saying. but some of these public and private universities offer mba courses that half bake their students on completion of the course.
i once spoke to a person whose notion of doing an mba was to get knowledge. to his amazement,he felt that being a financial analyst requires one to intuitively study the core finance units such as those in the cfa curriculum. (CFA is an mba in itself) the units he was covering at UON were not core per se compared to his expectations.
in short i dont mean to condone our local mba curriculum, but i feel that the finance option within the mba program should cover derivatives ,fixed income , asset management and alternative investment units to change with the changing times- other universities like nigeria, capetown even in egypt have re assessed their curriculum.
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