MScComputational Finance
Study location | United Kingdom, Colchester Campus |
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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 |
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Language requirements | English IELTS: 6.0 overall (with a minimum component score of 5.5) |
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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 |
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More information |
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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
Financial Engineering and Risk Management
Introduction to Financial Market Analysis
Learning and Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance
Professional Practice and Research Methodology
Quantitative Methods in Finance and Trading
Big-Data for Computational Finance (optional)
Industry Expert Lectures in Finance (optional)
Mathematical Research Techniques Using Matlab (optional)
Programming in Python (optional)
Artificial Neural Networks (optional)
High Frequency Finance and Empirical Market Microstructure (optional)
Machine Learning and Data Mining (optional)
Trading Global Financial Markets (optional)
Creating and Growing a New Business Venture (optional)
Evolutionary Computation and Genetic Programming (optional)
Constraint Satisfaction for Decision Making (optional)
Career opportunities
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
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