Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Criminology and Psychology

at City, University of London United Kingdom

A one-year post-graduate programme deepening your knowledge of the theory and practice of investment and risk management.

You are an ambitious recent graduate looking to develop a full range of skills to help launch your career in finance or accounting. This is a highly practical master's course in Investment Management so you’ll need to possess a high level of quantitative skills.

Your coursework will involve you in examining accounting and finance from the perspective of those who use financial reports to evaluate company and managerial performance.

This one-year, full-time, expertly structured Investment Management postgraduate programme will provide you with the real-world accounting and finance expertise that leads to a wide range of rewarding international roles.

You will acquire a sound knowledge of the theoretical foundations that underpin modern investment and risk management techniques.

These principles are applied in practice via case studies and the use of online databases such as Bloomberg and simulators.

The practical aspect is delivered with extensive input from City of London institutions. Many leading practitioners teach on the course, providing a vital link between theory and practice.

The MSc in Investment Management is a demanding course. During the course you will cover the traditional syllabus of a general master's degree in finance and develop extensive expertise in a range of specialised areas such as:

• The management of equity and bond portfolios
• Trading techniques
• Asset-liability management
• Risk management
• Alternative investments
• Structured products
• Portfolio optimisation.

An advisory panel of senior practitioners ensures that the course remains at the forefront of developments within financial markets and reflects topical and technical developments in the marketplace.

The benefits of this course are many and will prepare you for a successful career in a wide range of engineering enterprises.

The programme has been developed from our research strength in fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, renewable and sustainable energy, gas turbine engineering, engines and powertrain, manufacturing and robotics.

The course also features industry-based projects that can provide you with employment opportunities.

Who is this course for?

This course is for you if you want to gain advanced knowledge of the latest technological developments in mechanical engineering.

This MSc is designed for new graduates and engineering professionals. You’ll learn and develop advanced skills in thermofluids, structural analysis, heat conversion and recovery, modern manufacturing technologies and robotics.

The course will also help you acquire an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals, practical skills and an appreciation of the latest developments in engineering solutions in the energy, transport and manufacturing sectors.

Discover how human rights can be protected by international law and accelerate your career in a related field with this unique LLM degree. You will examine profound issues concerning human rights from angles including minority protection, war and international crime.

You will develop an appreciation of how international law intervenes to protect human rights and where gaps exist in international law.

We enable you intellectually to examine international human rights from various perspectives including the prosecution of international criminals, war and minority protection.

Our programme also covers how the law of war protects the civilian and how far the rights of indigenous peoples are safeguarded by international law.

Your learning will be enhanced by our expert academics and your own independent studies.

On the Quantitative Finance master’s you will learn technical and practical skills useful in pursuing a career in front or middle office positions.

To successfully complete the Quantitative Finance course, you must have a good understanding of mathematics.

You may well have studied finance, economics, engineering or maths or physics as an undergraduate. Or you might have a bachelor’s degree in a science subject, in particular computer science.

You should have a general interest in mathematics and statistics, including the more quantitative and mathematical techniques used in financial markets; but you don’t need to have a background in finance.

You’ll study core modules focusing on asset pricing, risk management and introductions to key financial securities such as equities, fixed income securities and derivatives.

From there you’ll progress to specialist learning in econometrics, and cover a large amount of stochastics and numerical methods.

You’ll cover basic and advanced topics in econometrics including ARCH and GARCH models, co-integration and dealing with high frequency data.

You will also have the opportunity to work with a number of different estimation techniques, including OLS, Maximum Likelihood and GMM.

You’ll work extensively with programming language in the core modules.  In term 1 the focus of programming teaching is on Python alongside other languages such as VBA or Matlab which are also available as optional modules.

You’ll choose five from around 40 optional modules in your final term. You can also choose to complete a traditional dissertation, which counts for four optional modules, or a shorter ‘applied research project’, which is the equivalent of two optional modules.

On this degree you will develop highly valuable, transferable skills that open the door to a rewarding career in finance or economics.

You will study current economic theory and practice, financial economics, and the technical mathematics and statistics that underpin them. This supports your professional development, equipping you with the analytical abilities of a trained economist and specific knowledge of the economic aspects of financial markets.

• Develop sought-after quantitative skills required to analyse financial markets
• Show prospective employers your sound knowledge and understanding of the macroeconomic and microeconomic principles underlying various types of financial markets and instruments
• Learn the latest developments in all major fields of economics in a highly energised and supportive environment from lecturers recruited for their research excellence
• Stand out from the crowd with a professional placement year – past students have undertaken placements with organisations like PriceWaterhouseCoopers, HM Treasury, RBS, Goldman Sachs and the Financial Ombudsman Service
• Enjoy professional and social opportunities through the student-led Economics Society
• Follow in the footsteps of recent graduates who now work for major global corporations.

The Engineering Systems course takes an interdisciplinary approach to complex systems and the analysis of interactions to enable the successful realization and use of engineered systems in industry and globally.

Over Three years, you will develop the professional engineering skills required, with a focus on innovative and sustainable solutions to current and future problems in engineering systems.

Individual and group engineering design projects demonstrate your expertise to future employers and helps you transition from study to professional practice.

• Students will be trained to understand and analyze the broader context in which the engineering system is used, integrating processes and information in a holistic way, dealing with the challenges of complex systems interactions
• Benefit from exceptional industry involvement in the degree programme, taking advantage of the London location of City, including undertaking projects set by industry and guest lectures from practising engineers
• Study in world leading research facilities where different engineering systems are designed, developed and implemented for industry today
• Take an optional placement year or placement over two summer periods to boost your employability, building on the strengths in research and their industrial collaborations across the Department of Engineering, where engineering systems thinking is put into practice to make impact to meet the needs of industry today

Investigate the human obsession with crime by taking a critical approach to criminology and criminal justice in this MSc programme. You may pursue an established field of learning or specialise in a subject area that relates to your background or career ambitions.

You will benefit from the globally broad perspective presented in this MSc.

We believe that crime is multi-dimensional and should focus on the victim as much as the offender, the family of the offender, the community and the wider society.

You benefit from focusing not just on criminal acts, but also on the societal reaction to crime and cultural narratives around it.

If you are an independent thinker who wants to work within criminal justice, or perhaps already does, this degree is ideal. You can undertake specific research that builds on undergraduate criminology degrees taken anywhere in the world.

An interest in data collection and analysis will also be useful as research methods form a key component of the programme.

You might have a background in science, humanities or law, and you might already be working in the criminal justice system.

Studying alongside our research-active academics, you’ll learn about crime, policing, victims, media representations of crime, youth crime and more. You’ll also understand how criminality, victimisation and crime control relate to social issues such as class, gender, ethnicity, politics and the economy.

Our London location puts you at the heart of UK justice, with access to key criminal justice institutions such as the Central Criminal Court (the ‘old Bailey’), three police forces and numerous prisons.

• Develop methodological expertise to analyse crime and justice data, and engage with key criminal justice policy debates
• Build your studies around your interests, with our wide choice of elective modules
• Learn from academics who are internationally acknowledged as leading researchers in their field
• Boost your employability with an optional work placement year
• Develop highly sought-after data literacy and quantitative skills, thanks to our strong links with City’s Q-Step Centre
• Opt onto a Q-Step quantitative methods pathway: benefit from a heightened focus on data skills, a workplace Data Placement in Year 2, and an optional international work placement.

This accredited integrated master’s covers mechanical, computational and sustainable life-cycle engineering in this high-tech field.

Over four years, students develop professional engineering skills, with a focus on innovative and sustainable solutions to future mechanical engineering systems.

Individual and group engineering design projects demonstrate students’ expertise to future employers. Whilst a fourth year, at master’s level, it helps to transition from study to professional practice.

• Benefit from strong links to industry and exceptional industry involvement in the degree programme. Profit from City’s vision of sustainable engineering, a fundamental aspect in future Mechanical and Design Engineering.
• Study in world leading test facilities, including our thermo-fluid laboratories, engine test beds and  low-turbulence wind-tunnel, and high-speed tunnel belonging to the UK National Wind Tunnel Facility initiative.
• Work with modern state-of-the art experimental equipment and high-performance computational fluid solvers, both being developed at City and supported by world-experts in those fields.
• Enjoy easy access to our central London location and benefit from the links to our international aviation program, with City being the hub for key national and international industries.

Mathematics is the universal language of today’s global economy. Data Science is increasingly the tool for analysing real world complexity and decision-making.

Whether you are managing an investment portfolio, encrypting financial transactions or constructing a machine-learning algorithm to identify hidden patterns in your customer database you will likely be doing it through a combination of Mathematics and Data Science methods.

The Mathematics with Data Science BSc opens doors to the widest range of careers, because virtually all industries need graduates with skills in these disciplines. The confidence and knowledge you gain at City will open doors to a rewarding and satisfying career.

• Understand the universal nature of mathematics as a discipline that knows no borders or language barriers
• Master a wide range of mathematical and data science topics and techniques, such as calculus, probability and machine learning
• Learn to implement sophisticated algorithms, data mining techniques artificial intelligence with real world applications
• Boost your employability with an optional paid one-year work placement – past students have secured placements at organisations such as Axa, Barclays, Bloomberg, Disney, Microsoft, Toyota and Warner Music
• Take special career development modules to understand mathematics’ essential role across all industries and the opportunities available to you.

Explore your interests through a research project chosen from a wide variety of mathematical topics – past projects have included everything from life-saving mathematics in medical imaging, to wallpaper patterns.