Big data streams influence financial and statistical modelling daily and on an ever-increasing scale. It’s not just financial data that impacts investment decisions, even data streams from social networks and search engine analytics can change how an investment matures.
The finance and investments industry needs practitioners who have a fundamental understanding of financial markets who can also apply statistical modelling in the context of the growing, and increasingly complex, data available to financial firms.
This University of Essex course is perfect for those with an interest in big data and data analysis who want to work in specialist roles within the finance and investments sector. The MSc Finance and Data Analytics prepares students for the financial services sector by equipping them with the quantitative, statistical and technical skills needed in a world powered by big data.
Students master areas including:
big data
portfolio analysis
financial modelling
data analytics
trading global markets
The University of Essex is uniquely placed to offer a Masters in Finance and Data Analytics. The University is home to the ESRC Business and Local Government Data Research Centre, which helps local authorities and businesses across the UK to leverage data more effectively, as well as the UK Data Service who provide access to quality economic and social data to organizations across the UK.
Studying MSc Finance and Data Analytics at Essex Business School, where this course is taught, means that students have access to some of the most unique financial research in the UK, supported by these two large big data centres of excellence.
The virtual trading floor ensures students gain practical experience of using industry-standard terminals and real-world business information.
| Level | Masters |
| Discipline | Business & Management |
| Duration | 12 months |
| Intakes | Oct |
| Application Fees | GBP 0 |
| Tuition Fees | GBP 21350 |
| Campus | Colchester |
| Language proficiency (minimum) | |
| IELTS | 6.5 |
|---|---|
| TOEFL | 88 |
| PTE | 60 |
| Duolingo | Not Accepted |
| Exam proficiency (minimum) | |
| SAT | Not Required / Waiver |
|---|---|
| ACT | Not Required / Waiver |
| GRE | Not Required / Waiver |
| GMAT | Not Required / Waiver |
Minimum GPA - 70.0%
472
301-350
501-600
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