Programme Highlights

MSc Financial Computing Highlights  

• Gain valuable expertise at the intersection of technology, finance and mathematics 
• Learn from lecturers with considerable experience in investment banking and financial markets. 
• Take up to two modules taught by the School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science (artificial intelligence, cloud computing). 
• Opportunity to join student investment fund 

MSc Financial Computing enables graduates to develop the skills and knowledge needed for a career in the profitable and intellectually challenging intersection of mathematics, finance and technology. There is high demand from investment banks, hedge funds, financial software companies, brokerage and consultancy firms, and other businesses for graduates who have excellent mathematical, financial and computing skills. Upon graduation, you will have gained a solid understanding of all the key areas of modern financial computing, including a range of numerical and computational techniques that form an important part of the toolkit of a typical practitioner. 

Structure 

The programme consists of eight taught modules, a project and dissertation. You will study a range of modules offered by the School of Mathematical Sciences and the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. In semester one and two, you will take three compulsory modules and one elective module. You will gain experience of a variety of software development environments, languages and tools. You will learn about the structure of financial instruments and the operation of the markets, and the foundations of mathematical modelling in finance.  

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