Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computer Science with Games Technology with Placement Year

at City, University of London United Kingdom

This highly practical yet academically rigorous masters in shipping will propel you into the upper ranks of the global shipping, trade and finance industry.

The Masters in Shipping, Trade and Finance is for business-focused individual with a high-performing career in global shipping and its associated industries as your ultimate goal. Equally at home with practical subjects and academic theory, you thrive on solving tough challenges under time constraints. You want to acquire or sharpen the skills necessary to operate at an executive level in areas ranging from shipping, supply chain and commodities, to finance, investment, trading, banking and related sectors and industries.

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.

Society needs future leaders who care. From charities and social enterprises, to multinational corporations, government departments and start up businesses. They all need leaders who pay attention to socio-economic and environmental issues. If you want to be a Change Maker, this course is for you.

Graduates of the Business Management with Social Purpose pathway will have the skills, experience and knowledge necessary to lead and manage projects, movements and organisations in the public, private or non-profit sectors.

Our expertise in business management and charities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), corporate social responsibility, volunteering and social enterprise gives our graduates the knowledge, skills and necessary experience that is attractive to employers.

You’ll also benefit from our outstanding connections with industry professionals and employers. Many of our academics themselves are practitioners, therefore giving you multiple opportunities to meet and network with leaders from the charities sector and the business world.

By learning the fundamentals of business management and having an in-depth understanding of local and global socio-economic issues, you’ll be part of the next generation of change makers and leaders.

You’ll learn about strategy, human resources, operational management, finance and accounting, marketing, corporate reputation management, social entrepreneurship and enterprise, corporate social responsibility and investment, non-profit management and the management of culture, values and business ethics.

You’ll also apply the principles you learn to real-world scenarios. In your third year, for example, your final project involves working with major firms and enterprises to assess their engagement with social enterprise and corporate social responsibility. You also have a number of electives to choose from like our Mentoring & Coaching for Leadership module.

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.

You excel in and enjoy mathematics, especially modelling and probability. You love asking “What if?”.

The skills you gain on the Actuarial Science undergraduate course will kickstart your actuarial career. You can also enter careers in risk management, investment management or financial analysis.

If you enjoy mathematics, statistics, probability and economics you will find this course ideal. For the duration of your degree, you’ll delve deeper into these core subjects, as well as stochastic models, finance and financial reporting, business and, naturally, actuarial science itself. You’ll also produce a self-researched final-year project on an area that interests you and reflects your ambitions.

This course prepares you for a career in the global aerospace industry. You’ll develop in-depth engineering knowledge each year, putting it into practice through cross-disciplinary design projects at every stage of your studies.

• Learn about the design, analysis and testing of aeronautical and aerospace vehicles and associated technology
• Study in industry-standard specialist facilities including our flight deck, motion simulators, wind tunnels, fuel injection systems, formula car simulator and flight test course
• Prepare for professional practice in your final year, with an in-depth individual design project based on industrial needs
• Boost your employability with an optional 12-month professional placement - past hosts include Airbus, DHL, British Airways, EDF Energy
• Future-proof your skills with our focus on design innovation and sustainability
• Progress to a high-tech career in the airline and aircraft industries
• 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.

This program aims to provide you with a deep understanding of collection-orientated institutions and services and their relevance in society. Your course will enable you to examine the processes of information organization, communication, access and provision, as well as considering library infrastructures and services from both historical and philosophical perspectives.

This course will prepare you for a career in collection-related institutions and services. It is also ideal for those wishing to update their skills in this sector.

Library Science is a broad, interdisciplinary field, the principles and practices of which underpin today's information society.

With an emphasis on the use of new and emergent technologies; information resource description and organization; methods of investigation and analysis; ethical, legal, and socio-political implications, and policy formulation, this course is an ideal foundation for a career in modern collection-based services.

This accredited integrated master’s covers structural, geotechnical and hydraulic engineering. Over four years, you will develop professional engineering skills, with a focus on innovative and sustainable solutions to infrastructure problems.

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

• 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
• Fast track your progress to Chartered Engineer status, with a degree that meets all academic requirements for professional registration.

You will study a broad curriculum in your first two years – learning about cognitive, behavioural and biological psychology – before having the opportunity to specialise in your final year.

We offer four pathways linked to the expertise of our staff, who are all research-active academics and practitioners. Continue with our BSc Psychology degree or specialise in:

• BSc Psychology with Counselling and Health Psychology
• BSc Psychology with Organisational Psychology and Behavioural Economics
• BSc Psychology with Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
• BSc Psychology with Child Development.

This flexibility offers you the chance to start shaping your CV as your career aspirations take shape.

• Learn from internationally recognised research-active academics
• Study cutting-edge topics related to our research activity, in areas such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Autism, Child Development, Memory, and Counselling and Health Psychology
• Benefit from our three specialist research centres that provide a link between our research and professional practice and industry
• Develop your research skills in our specialised psychology research laboratories
• Boost your employability with an integrated professional training year, research assistant opportunities or volunteering.

The MSc in Corporate Finance programme is your chance to specialise in one of the biggest, most popular and prestigious areas of finance. Start your stellar career today.

The MSc degree in Corporate Finance is designed for ambitious students with interest in the area of corporate finance. Your background is not necessarily in finance or accounting, but you have a keen interest to study corporate finance and aim for a professional career in this or a related field.

You aim to work as a finance professional for an investment bank, a consulting firm, or a global corporation as a finance manager. You are interested in questions such as:

• How do investors decide which stocks (e.g. Tesla vs. Ford) and which markets (e.g. the UK vs. Italy) to invest in?
• The benefits of international compared to domestic mergers?
• How do hedge funds and investment banks compete in the market?
• What skills and knowledge you need to work for a hedge fund, a private equity firm, an investment bank or one of top accounting firms, an M&A boutique or a finance department at a global corporation.
• How to value a company for a private equity buyout, an acquisition or an IPO?
• How to analyse financial statements to understand firm’s profitability and future prospects

The degree attracts top students from around the world and is among the most popular degrees students apply to. During the studies, you will have the opportunity to meet and network with alumni working in the finance profession and learn their inside tips on getting a finance job. The programme is widely recognised by top recruiters in the City of London and internationally.

The Corporate Finance master’s is designed to satisfy your drive to understand how companies manage their investment and financing decisions.

In your studies, you will examine questions such as: how financial markets work and how companies access them to finance their operations, what IPOs and mergers and acquisitions are and how they help increase firm value, how to value financial products, such as stocks and derivatives.

Your studies will encompass practical and up-to-date teaching on how the modern corporate finance world works from top academics and practitioners from the City of London.

You will graduate fully equipped for a successful career within financial management and corporate finance departments of leading global and international corporations, top investment and commercial banks, and family firms.

Unique features of this degree are:

• Core modules in Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity and Risk Management
• Tuition from 'practitioner' professors who discuss how theory applies to the real world
• Hands-on courses on the use of Excel, VBA and opportunity to learn other programming languages such as Python
• A choice from over twelve finance related electives including international electives in New York, Madrid, Portugal and Milan
• Opportunities to meet and interact with top finance and business leaders during guest lectures and seminars
• Support from one of London’s best Careers’ Office to help you secure future employment (including one-to-one sessions to prepare you for interviews, networking sessions, work on your CV, advice on application and a Career’s Fair where you can meet potential employers)
• Networking events with alumni and finance professionals
• The opportunity to apply for an additional year's study at LUISS or Bocconi business schools in Italy to quality with two MSc degrees (one from the Bayes Business School and the other from LUISS or Bocconi)