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Graduate Diploma

Developed by academics at LSE, this diploma provides a strong grounding in the principles of finance and helps you to develop critical skills for a wide range of real world professional situations.

It is designed for graduates looking for either a standalone qualification in finance or a foundation for postgraduate study in finance-related fields.

Graduate Diplomas
Study the Finance Graduate Diploma wherever you are in the world.

Study this course at a Teaching Centre near you

You can receive local support from a local teaching centre, use the dropdown to find your nearest centre.

Studying this programme, you will:

  • understand several of the major contexts within which banking operates.
  • understand and critically evaluate, current and major alternative technical languages and practices of banking and finance.
  • manipulate financial and other numerical data and apply mathematical and statistical concepts.
  • the principles of business information systems management.
  • analyse business activities and perform financial analyses and projections in appropriate contexts of planning, decision making and recognise the limitations of these techniques.
  • understand the pricing of financial assets and why and how corporations issue various types of assets.
  • understand financial management, risk and the operation of financial markets, based on critical evaluation of theories and empirical evidence.

Programme details

This programme has one intake date per year: November. 

2023 intake
Application deadline 01 October 2023
Registration deadline 01 November 2023
Programme starts November

The fees below relate to new students registering for the 2022-2023 session, and are effective from 25 January 2022. These may be increased by up to 7% per annum.

Academic year 2022-2023
Application fee (non-refundable) 107
Initial registration fee 1214
Further registration fee for Law options (per course) 66
Examination entry fee per half course 183
Examination entry fee per full course 366
Online examination fee* 10
Continuing registration fee 554
Indicative total 2785

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More about programme fees

*The online examination administration fee is charged for each examination paper held online, including resits. This does not apply to any coursework submissions. This fee will be charged at the point of exam entry and is in addition to the exam entry fee listed above.

Additional Costs

You will also need to budget for:

  • Textbooks (could extend to around £300 per year)
  • Teaching centre tuition costs
  • Exam centre fees, which are paid directly to the venues where you sit your exams.

We accept most traditional payment methods, including debit/credit card, international money order, and Western Union.

How to pay your fees

Please note: all student fees shown are net of any local VAT, Goods and Services Tax (GST) or any other sales tax payable by the student in their country of residence. Where the University is required to add VAT, GST or any other sales tax at the local statutory rate, this will be added to the fees shown during the payment process. For students resident in the UK, our fees are exempt from VAT.

Further information on Sales Tax

Your payment provider may apply additional transaction fees (if in doubt, please check with them before making a payment).

Further information about fee payment options can be found in the “How to pay your fees” link above.

This programme is only available to study at a Recognised Teaching Centre and cannot be studied independently. Before you apply for this programme with University of London, you should contact your Recognised Teaching Centre of choice for advice on application/admission requirements, including any additional requirements that the teaching centre might have.

Once the Recognised Teaching Centre is happy to offer you a place in principle, they will provide you with an Application Validation Code (AVC) to be used to complete your University of London application. Please remember that any Recognised Teaching Centre offer is subject to formal University of London approval. This will be in the form of you receiving an offer from your University of London application. Your Recognised Teaching Centre can contact University of London on your behalf for eligibility advice, prior to you submitting a formal online application.

Without the cost of moving to London, studying for your University of London diploma anywhere in the world represents excellent value for money. However, there may be additional sources of support depending on where you live.

More on funding your study.

About the LSE Summer School

LSE’s Summer School is the most well-established and the largest of its kind in the whole of Europe, with over 80 academically rigorous courses on offer. Each year over 6,000 students from 120 nations study at the LSE campus in the heart of Central London.

Courses are taught by LSE faculty and complement the content of this degree. If you complete two Summer School courses you may be able to earn credit equivalent to one course on the degree. As a student on this programme you will receive a 15% discount on tuition fees to attend the LSE Summer School.

Full details and how to apply are available on the LSE Summer School website.

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