Master of Engineering (Hons) in Aerospace Engineering with Placement Year

at City, University of London United Kingdom

You will be introduced to the fast-paced world of commercial publishing and learn the how the different sectors of the publishing industry fit together.

Our digital publishing element shows you how social media and web publishing is vital to finding and sustaining your community of readers.

We aim to improve your skills as a creative writer, particularly as a writer of short stories and novels. You will build the skills and experience needed to better engage with the publishing industry and work within it.

Who is this course for?

If you are a writer seeking to develop publishing industry knowledge alongside writing skills, this programme is ideal. You can get hands-on publishing experience and enhance your creative practice.

Whether you are an experienced writer or relatively new to the field, you will be equipped with new professional competencies from creative digital content to traditional print.

This course is a hybrid of Mathematics and actuarial science, designed to help you develop knowledge of mathematical methods and how to apply them to real-world problems.

You will be trained in advanced mathematical techniques, economic theory – both micro and macro – and a wide range of finance topics.

• Become a graduate in demand – our students are highly sought after in financial sector, particularly risk assessment, insurance and statistical finance
• Master a wide range of mathematical topics and techniques, including computing and computational mathematics, statistics and probability – and how to apply them to real-world problems
• Develop in-demand expertise in finance and actuarial science, such as financial and investment mathematics and financial reporting
• Boost your employability with an optional paid one-year work placement – past students have secured placements at organisations such as Axa, Barclays, Bloomberg, Disney, GE Capital, IBM, J.P. Morgan, Microsoft and Toyota.

Learn from a multidisciplinary team combining expertise from our Department of Mathematics and Department of Economics, with finance modules taught principally by City’s experts at our Business School.

This degree offers a broad understanding of these two complementary subjects, with a special focus on how the local and the global relate to each other.

You’ll study topics such as culture, identity, class, international political theory, and the global political economy.

You’ll learn about how specific actors and institutions emerge, how ideas shape global politics, and how social dynamics affect us all. You’ll explore the organisation of contemporary societies and the structures that define our everyday lives.

• Develop transferable skills in the analysis, interpretation and production of social data, including sought-after data literacy and quantitative skills
• Gain knowledge and expertise for a future career in politics, policy making, the civil service or government
• Become a critical thinker with an in-depth understanding of the complex interplay of local and global forces
• Benefit from our central location in a global city, close to national political institutions and organisations, and with access to a wide range of internship opportunities
• Boost your employability with an optional placement year.

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.

Diagnostic radiographers use imaging techniques – such as radiography, fluoroscopy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound – to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of illness.

This accredited course provides the technological, biological and social knowledge required to practise as a diagnostic radiographer within a healthcare team.

City, University of London has one of the best-equipped radiography training facilities in the country and we’re 1st in London for Medical Technology. We offer students a unique learning environment, mirroring many of the facilities you will encounter in professional practice.

• Benefit from opportunities arising from our close links with radiology departments in hospitals, the radiography profession and industry
• Practise your skills in a simulated environment in our well-equipped Clinical Skills Centre, which includes a fully equipped X-ray suite and dental equipment
• Spend approximately half your time on clinical placement – recent students have worked at the Royal Free Hospital, University College London Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, the Royal London Hospitals and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

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.

Build in-depth knowledge and understanding about the role of media and communications in the societies of developed and developing countries across the world. Our University is proud to be ranked first in London for Communication and Media Studies (Complete University Guide 2020).

You will benefit significantly from new knowledge in specialist areas including big data, digital cultures, media broadcasting and reform, and transnational media.

You will be given a wider global perspective through a grounding in the social, economic and political context of media and communications.

We will expose you to the latest debates in media and communications and introduce you to current cutting-edge research. This helps your learning and can inform your choice of specialism.

Our module options in Sociology allow you to approach your specialism from an innovative angle.

You will benefit from improved analytical and critical skills and the development of diverse methodological approaches and tools.

Our International Political Economy BSc is designed to meet increasing demand for an interdisciplinary course that prepares students for both the public and private job markets.

This bespoke programme – the first degree in IPE in the UK – provides training in a range of conceptual and analytical skills. These will help you analyse the challenges facing decision-makers in business and politics in the global age.

You will be able to analyse complex dynamics of the global markets, financial systems and national political structures. You’ll have the skills and knowledge to draw connections between economic, political and social processes driving major changes on the global scene.

• Study politics, the economy and society as a whole, developing a fully integrated understanding of the world’s changing economic and political topography
• Receive interdisciplinary training from the largest concentration of world-renowned experts in IPE and related fields
• Benefit from our close links to business, the financial sector, policy-makers and think tanks

Develop data literacy, analytical skills and in-depth understanding of micro- and macro-economic theory that are sought-after a wide range of careers.

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.

This course will offer those students wishing to report on domestic and international affairs the opportunity to study in greater detail the forces that have shaped the world, and for historians and students of politics to acquire extra skills to become first-rate communicators in whichever professional field they choose to enter.

City’s Journalism department enjoys a first-rate reputation among professional journalists because of the high standard of graduates it produces.

Successful journalists are interested in ideas. This course will give you the education in Journalism, Politics and History for professional success in a complicated world where politics is often polluted by disinformation.

• Location in central London, one of the world’s leading media capitals, with access to the Journalism department’s excellent facilities, and extensive industry contacts
• The chance to study, and report on, British and international politics and history at a time when the U.K. is redefining its relationship with the rest of the world
• A focus throughout on how your studies will prepare you for professional success