Study location	United Kingdom, Colchester Campus
Type	Master courses, full-time
Nominal duration	1 year
Study language	English
Awards	MSc

Entry qualification	Undergraduate diploma (or higher) overall grade of 2:2 and above

Language requirements	English Accepted proof of proficiency: Cambridge English, IELTS, TOEFL or other equivalent IELTS: 6.0 overall (with a minimum component score of 5.5) CAE: C

Other requirements	At least 1 reference(s) must be provided. Reference should be written on official letterhead, signed and dated. Please upload it in the Documents section. CV

More information	essex.ac.uk/..tercourse=PG00605&subgroup=1

Overview

Interested? To learn more about this study programme, entry requirements and application process, please contact one of our consultants in a country nearest to you.

Programme structure

Year 1

CCFEA MSc Dissertation
Big-Data for Computational Finance
High Frequency Finance and Empirical Market Microstructure
Introduction to Financial Market Analysis
Professional Practice and Research Methodology
Quantitative Methods in Finance and Trading
Trading Global Financial Markets
Cloud Technologies and Systems (optional)
Constraint Satisfaction for Decision Making (optional)
Creating and Growing a New Business Venture (optional)
Digital Signal Processing (optional)
Evolutionary Computation and Genetic Programming (optional)
Financial Engineering and Risk Management (optional)
High Performance Computing (optional)
Industry Expert Lectures in Finance (optional)
Learning and Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (optional)
Mathematical Research Techniques Using Matlab (optional)
Programming in Python (optional)
Text Analytics (optional)

Career opportunities

We have an extensive network of industrial contacts through our City Associates Board and our alumni, while our expert seminar series gives you the opportunity to work with leading figures from industry.

Our recent graduates have gone on to become quantitative analysts, portfolio managers and software engineers at various institutions, including:

HSBC
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities
Old Mutual
Bank of England