Regulation and Compliance

This MSc teaches you the fundamentals of the regulatory framework and provides a more focused approach to compliance in various markets. You will investigate compliance issues in the UK, EU, and global markets.

• Gain the skills that will help you succeed in a regulation and compliance career.
• Options to specialise in the financial, data protection and intellectual property, business and insurance or energy sectors or follow the general curriculum.
• Online-learning modules available.
• Taught by academics from the Institute for Regulation and Ethics, an institute that draws from faculties which focus on the inter-relationship between commercial law, regulation and ethics. 

You will need to provide the following documentation as part of your application. This list of documents may vary slightly from course to course.

• Completed application form
• Degree transcripts. Please provide a transcript for your degree study. If you have not yet completed your degree please provide a transcript of your results achieved to date. If you have completed more than one university qualification, please provide a transcript and certificate for both.
  • If your degree was awarded by a UK university, please upload a transcript of your marks for each year. If your institution issues electronic Higher Education Achievement Reports (e-HEARS), or similar, you must provide a copy of the e-HEAR. No other documentation will be accepted.
  • If your degree was awarded by an overseas institution, you should supply a transcript of your marks for each year of your studies and a copy of your degree certificate together with a certified translation if the document is not in English. Please note that original documentation will be required before you enrol. International and EU applicants are also advised to include high school transcripts
• Referee details. Please provide the contact details of one or two referees on your application as required. You should provide details of an academic referee if you are currently studying, or if you have graduated within the last five years. Professional references may be considered if you have graduated more than five years ago.
  • Your academic referee(s) may already have provided you with a reference that you can use to support any application for study or research that you make. We call these ‘open’ references. Open references will normally only be accepted if they are written on headed paper, provided as a colour copy of the original, and provide the referee’s work contact details.
  •  If you have open references, please upload these at the time of application If you do not have open reference, we will contact your referee(s) via email to supply a reference, preferably electronically. Please note, we can only accept a reference provided by email if it is sent from a university or company email address. References from a personal email address such as 'Yahoo' or 'Hotmail' are not acceptable.
  •  Your referee(s) can also supply a paper reference in response to the reference request email your referee will receive. Paper reference forms should be endorsed by an appropriate institution/company stamp or on official institution/company letterhead, and should be provided as a scanned colour copy of the original.
• Statement of purpose. Your statement of purpose should explain why you want to study your chosen programme and how it will help your future career aspirations. This should typically be one side of A4 paper.
• Curriculum Vitae (CV)/Resume
• English language certificate (if applicable). If English is not your first language, you should provide evidence of English language ability: IELTS, TOEFL, or other acceptable proof. Please see the English Language Requirements section for more details.