Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Mathematics and Finance

at City, University of London United Kingdom

This course prepares you for a career in the global aerospace industry, working on manned and unmanned aircraft. Accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Aeronautical Society, it is your first step towards Chartered Engineer status.

You will study our core engineering first year, equipping you with skills in mathematics, engineering science and electronics. In later stages, you progress to specialist topics including flight dynamics and aerodynamics and propulsion.

You’ll put your in-depth aeronautical engineering knowledge into practice with design projects at every stage of your studies.

• Study in industry-standard specialist facilities including our flight deck, motion simulators, wind tunnels, fuel injection systems, formula car simulator and flight test course
• Boost your employability with an optional 12-month professional placement – past hosts include Airbus, DHL Air, British Airways, Delphi and EDF Energy
• Shine at interview with practical examples to showcase your expertise, thanks to real-world projects throughout your studies
• Benefit from our industry connections and outstanding reputation as the first UK university offering aeronautic engineering.

Build the vital skills in research and reporting that are needed to form robust investigations with the power to change lives and society. Our pioneering Investigative Journalism MA is an intensely challenging program that focuses on the practical investigative abilities required to succeed.

We aim to give you the skills to quickly progress from the basics of writing news for print or online to producing audio-visual journalism for TV, radio and online.

You will learn how to investigate and communicate across multimedia platforms and work ethically and legally.

Our program covers how to investigate using open and closed sources, different interviewing techniques, how to use access to information laws, and ethical undercover work.

You will learn through the production of your own professional-grade piece of investigative work.

This programme enables you to come up with safe solutions for real-world projects. You’ll learn in small groups alongside world-leading engineers using high-end industry software. This MSc will give you the opportunity to develop your own area of structural engineering expertise and the opportunity to work worldwide.

This accredited course has many and varied benefits that will help progress your future career. As a department we believe civil engineering is a creative and collaborative profession, as much as a technical one. Your course will give you the skills and tools you need to engage with both the analytical and experimental side of the subject allowing you to generate your own structural solutions. From earthquake engineering to sustainable construction, you’ll learn from a group of world-leading engineers with diverse research strengths.

This course is for professional engineers who want to specialise in structural engineering or move into this area of expertise to advance their career.

You will have a degree in engineering or a related discipline.

If you don’t have qualifications in civil engineering it’s likely you’ll have relevant work experience in civil engineering structures.

Our accredited bachelor of Computer Science degree provides a comprehensive overview of all areas of computing. This allows you to keep your career options open and explore a wide range of in-demand topics.

Elective modules in your third year let you tailor your degree to your developing interests, such as computer vision, AI and advanced game technology.

• Develop systematic knowledge of computer science, with a focus on how software and programming can be used to solve real-world problems
• Learn to evaluate solutions to computer science problems
• Develop commercially valuable skills for your future career
• Work with City’s internationally renowned research groups to develop knowledge at the forefront of computing science
• Acquire state-of-the-art approaches to a wide variety of technologies
• Learn to code creatively and use programming languages accurately
• Study in City’s computing labs, which include the latest hardware and software, such as state-of-art NVidia GPUs
• Boost your expertise and employability with an optional one-year work placement
• Gain three years of professional experience with our innovative Professional Pathway Scheme, combining paid employment and study.

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

The Engineering with busines course takes an interdisciplinary approach to engineering and business and management to enable development of skills necessary for modern businesses globally.

Over four years, you will develop the professional engineering, management and business skills required, with a focus on core engineering and design skills, entrepreneurship innovations, strategy and business sustainability.

Individual and group projects involving design and business aspects demonstrate your expertise to future employers, whilst the fourth year, at Master’s level, helps you transition from study to professional practice.

• Students will be trained to understand and analyse the broader context in which the engineering systems are used, integrating processes and information in a holistic way, dealing with the challenges of complex engineering challenges
• 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
• Students will benefit form the collaboration between engineering and Bayes Business school in the delivery of the programme.
• Study in world leading research facilities where different engineering solutions 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 and business skills are put into practice to make impact to meet the needs of industry today

The benefits of this course are many and varied. You will build knowledge of the field and its history while developing practical skills and understanding to help you in the modern workplace.

By the end of the course you will know how to analyse financial markets and instruments for risk management and how to apply quantitative data and statistical techniques to economic and business decision making.

Your personal development will give you greater confidence and value to the workplace.

Who is this course for?

If you want to learn how to apply economics to business issues, this course is suitable for you.

Our core modules require that you have a basic level of business economics knowledge, and a strong understanding of statistics and quantitative methods. You are also expected to have a strong interest in current affairs relating to business, finance and economics.

Under the guidance of world-class professors and expert practitioners, you’ll learn how to identify, create and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities on our Entrepreneurship master’s course.

You are a curious, persistent, problem-solving, team-oriented and ambitious graduate interested in launching your own business, leading initiatives within large corporations or taking your family business to the next level.

You relish the challenge of learning in a fast-paced, hands-on programme, created and taught by leading academics and entrepreneurs.

You’re looking for an academically rigorous and professionally relevant qualification that will serve your ultimate needs as an entrepreneur or business owner.

You begin your MSc in Entrepreneurship by plunging straight into the world of entrepreneurship as we kick off with New Venture Creation. During this four-day module, you and your fellow students come together to share ideas, form teams and build prototypes.

You’ll quickly realise that your studies put strong emphasis on balancing research-led teaching with experiential learning such as consulting for small-business owners, preparation for joining an accelerator and field trips.

It’s your fast-track guide through the intricate process of starting your own venture/initiative.

The overarching aim is to help nurture innovative and prosperous new ventures with responsible leaders who appreciate the demands of multiple stakeholders.

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.

Develop the key competencies in theoretical, applied and empirical economics that are required by many employers of economists. You will cover core modules in microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics, and have the chance to take modules in specialist areas including health economics and behavioural economics.

We help you develop new and existing skills, significantly enhance your knowledge of economics and prepare you for work as a professional economist.

By the time you graduate, your sharpened critical and analytical abilities will function alongside a full understanding of modern economic theory.

You will be confident in the application of econometric theory and techniques, and in your ability to critically analyse modern research.

The dissertation track is also a good pathway to an Economics PhD if you want to pursue further study.