Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Politics

at City, University of London United Kingdom

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.

The International Business pathway should appeal particularly to you if you expect to work in multinational businesses. Or in other areas where contemporary issues affect the way business takes place globally. You should be prepared to consider the different impact of management concepts in different parts of the world and to apply these to practical examples.

This course gives you a broad understanding of business within an international context. As part of this degree you must spend some time at one of our overseas partners and use this experience to contribute to your understanding of management concepts.

You’ll be able to reflect on this international experience within your final-year project. You’ll discuss issues related to the global economy, and will be encouraged to consider the particular impact of management concepts in different parts of the world.

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.

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.

If you love mathematics, especially modelling and probability, and you are interested in the use of coding, data and IT to solve real-world problems, then you will find this course ideal for you.

As you would expect, the Data Analytics and Actuarial Science undergraduate course sets you up for a career in actuarial science. However, the course will also prepare you for a career in the wider fields of data analysis and risk management, or in investment management or financial analysis.

Traditionally, actuaries have used data to solve problems in the financial risk area. However, the world of finance is being transformed by two major trends – the increase in the volume and types of data and the focus on risk management. This means some problems are now best solved using different data analysis techniques.

This course prepares you for these new challenges. You will explore the traditional actuarial approach to risk management but you’ll also learn about some of the newest areas of data science, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, and their practical application to finance and insurance.

As well as developing your understanding of mathematics, probability, statistics, economics and IT you’ll look into probability modelling, data analysis and the financial markets. You’ll also be able to demonstrate your skills and your ability to communicate your findings in your final year project.

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.

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 four 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

Train to become a reporter, correspondent or editor for global news organizations with our stimulating and modern Newspaper Journalism MA program. You will develop a range of practical skills and media knowledge needed to make an impact in a hugely competitive industry.

You will build a combination of vital professional skills. These include research, reporting, interviewing, writing, editing and newspaper production in print and online.

We give you a concern for professional standards, covering both critical and ethical reflection.

During your degree, you will be encouraged to undertake optional work placements, with support from your tutors in finding these at appropriate organizations.

On this intensive, hands-on MSc course, you will work on executive and operational challenges in health management to build expertise in business processes, systems and structures. You will develop your strategic leadership and problem-solving skills, underpinned by professional best practice and key management insights and research driven analysis.

City’s MSc Health Management provides applied business skills for ambitious professionals working in, or transitioning to, global healthcare, health technologies, strategic healthcare administration and management.

You will learn about health management supported by a range of international and cross-sector contexts, including commercial sectors, healthcare, pharma, medical technologies.

Working on live projects alongside clinical and management professionals from a wide range of disciplines will enhance your interpersonal skills and provide practical experience of collaborative working.

You are fascinated by the financial world and that complements your love and talent for mathematics, especially modelling and probability. You love solving problems and setting up, then challenging, hypotheses.

The Finance with Actuarial Science undergraduate course will equip you with financial risk management and analysis skills that will boost your career prospects in investment management, risk management or actuarial science. Financial engineering or financial analysis careers will also be open to you.

Discover the different aspects of the financial world and in particular how assessing and managing risk is vital for success. To develop the skills you need to understand these ideas, you’ll take a mixture of financial, mathematical, statistical and actuarial modules. You will apply your new technical and analytical skills to solve a wide range of business problems.

In the first year your focus is on building a firm foundation in mathematics, statistics and economics as you begin to develop your understanding of financial risk.

In the second and third years you will broaden your understanding of the financial markets. This will include analysing the various types of financial instruments that are available, how they are valued and how they can be used to provide suitable solutions to financial problems involving risk and return.