Master of Arts in Global Political Economy

at City, University of London United Kingdom

Economic theory is highly relevant and applicable in today’s rapidly changing world. From the impact of immigration, to the organization of healthcare systems, economics touches on all areas of modern life.

This degree provides a thorough understanding of economic theory, with a focus on the practical link between theory and real-world application. You’ll learn the mathematics and statistics that underpin economics, and develop quantitative and analytical skills to evaluate wider social and political issues.

At the end of your first year you will be able to choose pathway between Economics and Economics and Econometrics, which focuses on quantitative aspects of economics.

• Develop desirable transferable skills for a broad range of careers in economics, business, finance and beyond
• Acquire analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills, alongside a deep understanding of economic theory and ideas
• Choose a pathway between Economics and Economics and Econometrics
• Stand out from the crowd with a professional placement year – past students have undertaken placements with organisations like the Department for Work and Pensions, GlaxoSmithKline, RBS and HM Treasury
• Study abroad with an optional exchange in Europe, America or further afield
• 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.

Our finance courses are for students who want to progress with the knowledge and skills required for a successful career in the increasingly competitive world of global finance and banking.

The BSc Investment and Financial Risk Management is for students who want to work in a wide variety of finance and investment fields. Maybe portfolio management or investment analysis. Maybe corporate treasury or financial trading. You want to understand the role risk plays in investment decision-making and how to manage it.

Our three degrees in finance (Finance, Banking and International Finance, and Investment and Financial Risk Management) provide detailed knowledge of how financial markets work, how companies make investment, financing and acquisition decisions and how modern banks operate.

If your goal is a career in the international investment and risk management world, consider this course your jumping off point. You’ll gain an in-depth knowledge of how modern investment analysts and risk managers operate. As you move through the degree you’ll prepare for your career in investment management, trading or analysis in any area of finance.

You’ll study every aspect of the discipline, from managing global investment portfolios to asset trading. All within a broad sweep of rigorous academic learning encompassing equity markets, bond trading, risk management, derivatives, hedging, investment banking and many other broad areas of risk and investments. As a result, you will gain a good understanding of financial markets, its activities and its products.

The jobs in this field are both exciting and well paid. They demand intellectual rigour and commercial acumen, and by selecting this course, you too can prepare yourself with the skills and competencies these jobs require.

Focus on developing the cutting-edge skills you require to work in this area of growth in the media industry. Our MA in Data Journalism is designed to build skills in working with data and communicating the stories that emerge from it in a range of innovative and engaging ways.

The MA Data Journalism has been developed to allow students to develop the skills required to work within specialist teams that are being developed in newsrooms across the country.

There’s a strong focus on telling data-driven stories with engaging graphics, working as part of an agile team and using data techniques to investigate key issues.

The course offers a mix of technical skills that allow students to investigate, analyse and visualise information as well as the core Journalistic skills of research, storytelling, media law and ethics.

Across the course you will build a portfolio of visualisations and journalistic work and develop the problem-solving skills required to work in the agile and developing area of data journalism.

Who is this course for?

The course is suitable for students from any background with an interest in current affairs, story development and innovation.

Previous knowledge of journalism or coding is not required as the course provides a stepping-stone into careers in data in the news industry and beyond.

The Energy and Sustainability Engineering course equips you with the expertise to take a multidisciplinary approach in tackling the challenges faced in sustainable development and access to clean and affordable energy.

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

Individual and group engineering design projects demonstrate your expertise to future employers.

• 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 industrial collaborations across the Department of Engineering.

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.

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.

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.

Studying civil engineering is the first step in an exciting career. You’ll develop technical expertise as well as skills in strategic thinking, innovation and communication.

Your professional training includes structural, geotechnical and hydraulic engineering. We focus on innovation and sustainability, helping you develop environmentally sound solutions to infrastructure problems.

Our degrees are accredited, meaning your qualification will be recognised for its quality and relevance.

• Benefit from exceptional industry involvement in the degree programme, including projects set by industry and guest lectures from practising engineers
• Study in world leading test facilities, including our flagship Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility, where you conduct research and test your theories
• Get hands-on experience with concrete casting, soil testing equipment and centrifuges
• Take an optional placement year to boost your employability. Recent placements have included Balfour Beatty, AECOM, Arup, Interserve and Network Rail
• Enjoy easy access to leading civil and structural engineering contractors and consultants thanks to our central London location
• Apply to transfer to our integrated master’s MEng degree ;if you pass the second year of your BEng above 60%, fast-tracking your progress to Chartered Engineer status.

This three-year accredited degree will equip you with the skills and expertise to design and build advanced machines, such as:

• Driverless cars
• High-speed trains
• Robotic manufacturing systems
• Tidal power stations
• Solar-powered generators

It encompasses the disciplines of material sciences, thermodynamics, solid and fluid mechanics and robotics. Accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, it is your first step towards Chartered Engineer status.

• Apply your interest in science and mathematics to solve engineering challenges and develop innovative solutions
• Receive professional training in all subjects necessary for a successful career as a mechanical engineer
• Learn from academic staff from our active Research Centres, supported by specialist professionals from industry
• Study in specialist facilities including our flight deck, motion simulators, wind tunnels, optical compressors, formula car simulator and more
• Boost your employability with a work placement – past hosts have included TfL, Nissan, Interserve, AECOM and Network Rail
• Benefit from our industry connections and outstanding reputation from 120 years of engineering teaching.

Build essential skills in magazine journalism by learning to produce online and print publications. Our Magazine Journalism MA also requires you to take up to seven weeks of relevant work experience, giving valuable practical experience and potentially the first step of a career.

We aim to give you a versatile mix of skills. This covers everything from writing short news stories, long-form investigative features and arts and culture reviews to producing profile pieces, podcasts and editing pictures and video. You also gain confidence in designing and subbing print and online pages

You will learn to write, design and produce our showcase magazine XCity and its website Xcityplus.com.

Our strong entrepreneurial angle enables you to learn how to create and launch new media products and engage audiences.