Master of Arts in Media and Communications

at City, University of London United Kingdom

Our flexible three-year degree provides unrivalled opportunities to shape your studies to match your personal interests, whilst learning about society at the vibrant heart of a global city.

You’ll develop critical thinking studying topics including: social class, social mobility, ‘race' and ethnicity, gender, culture, identity, inequality, migration, media, and criminology.

You’ll also develop transferable skills in the analysis, interpretation and production of social data.

• Develop highly sought-after data literacy and quantitative skills, thanks to our strong links with City’s Q-Step Centre
• Become a critical thinker with an in-depth understanding of the complex interplay of local and global forces
• 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
• Boost your employability with an optional placement year
• Take advantage of excellent internship opportunities thanks to our central London location, including access to organisations in media, crime and justice, human rights, and mental health.

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.

On this four-year degree, you will develop advanced knowledge of game engine architecture, computer graphics and game design.

You’ll become an expert in industry-standard engines that power game development, as well as computer game architecture, and the games development process.

You will study at master’s level in your fourth year, learning alongside our internationally renowned researchers at the cutting edge of the subject.

• Gain the skills for a career in the thriving computer games sector, applying your computing expertise in a creative, dynamic and desirable industry
• Boost your professional credibility, employability and earning potential with a degree that satisfies the academic requirements for CEng status
• Become proficient in a broad range of programming languages and cutting-edge games programming techniques
• Boost your employability with an optional one-year work placement: past students have worked for Sony, PlayStation, Disney, Microsoft and Goldhawk Interactive
• Study in City’s computing labs, which include the latest hardware and software, such as state-of-art NVidia GPUs
• Gain three years of professional experience with our innovative Professional Pathway Scheme, combining paid employment and study.

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.

On this degree you will develop highly valuable, transferable skills that open the door to a rewarding career in finance or economics.

You will study current economic theory and practice, financial economics, and the technical mathematics and statistics that underpin them. This supports your professional development, equipping you with the analytical abilities of a trained economist and specific knowledge of the economic aspects of financial markets.

• Develop sought-after quantitative skills required to analyse financial markets
• Show prospective employers your sound knowledge and understanding of the macroeconomic and microeconomic principles underlying various types of financial markets and instruments
• Learn the latest developments in all major fields of economics in a highly energised and supportive environment from lecturers recruited for their research excellence
• Stand out from the crowd with a professional placement year – past students have undertaken placements with organisations like PriceWaterhouseCoopers, HM Treasury, RBS, Goldman Sachs and the Financial Ombudsman Service
• 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.

This is the course that will equip you with cutting-edge theory and application of finance and critical knowledge of accounting in the context of international markets.

If you are an ambitious, curious and hard-working graduate, driven to excel and succeed in the area of finance or accounting, this is the right course for you.

The International Accounting and Finance MSc is a highly practical course so you’ll need to possess sound quantitative skills.

This is a master's course for graduates that are keen to acquire both the leading techniques in finance and analytical understanding of accounting in measuring economic activities in a business.

You will be able to tailor your course with elective modules to pursue selected fields in depth and address your individual career choice.

You can choose modules that will enable you to focus at greater depth on finance, or that will provide you with knowledge you will need to prepare for professional accounting qualifications.

This is a one-year, full-time, expertly structured programme that will provide you with the real-world finance and accounting expertise that leads to a wide range of rewarding international roles.

The emphasis of the International Accounting and Finance programme is to enable you to critically assess the implications of financial figures for a multitude of finance related topics.

During the course you will develop a deep understanding of the use of finance and accounting tools in the context of global capital markets.

The postgraduate programme is designed to equip you with skills for using both finance theory and analysis together with accounting numbers in investment decisions and corporate assessment.

For example, you will learn how to think in financial terms and develop the methods that will help you weigh financial risks when valuing underlying real assets, evaluating a strategy, and drawing conclusion about the business using financial figures, you will acquire analytical skills for making informed assessments on key financial decision, you will develop deep understanding of the fundamental issues behind international capital flows, their accounting treatment and bearings on business decisions.

This is a demanding and highly rewarding course and after leaving it you will be well-prepared for a broad range of financial careers.

MSc International Accounting and Finance graduates find careers in investment and corporate banks, accountancy and audit firms, ratings firms, private equity, financial data providers, venture capital, and finance departments in major 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 Finance is for someone who knows they are interested in finance, and at this point would like to keep their eventual finance career options open. The skills you gain during your studies will equip you both for a career in finance or further, postgraduate study.

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 you are looking for a career in finance and weighing up which aspects of the field excite you the most, this course if for you.

This course will sharpen your understanding of the broad disciplines involved, from corporate finance to asset pricing, international finance to corporate governance. Throughout your studies, you’ll focus on quantitative methods, enabling you to understand the cutting-edge techniques in use today. In the second half of the finance degree, core modules allow you to create a bespoke degree that matches your own interests. 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.

On this four-year degree, you will develop advanced knowledge of game engine architecture, computer graphics and game design.

You’ll become an expert in industry-standard engines that power game development, as well as computer game architecture, and the games development process.

You will study at master’s level in your fourth year, learning alongside our internationally renowned researchers at the cutting edge of the subject.

• Gain the skills for a career in the thriving computer games sector, applying your computing expertise in a creative, dynamic and desirable industry
• Boost your professional credibility, employability and earning potential with a degree that satisfies the academic requirements for CEng status
• Become proficient in a broad range of programming languages and cutting-edge games programming techniques
• Boost your employability with an optional one-year work placement: past students have worked for Sony, PlayStation, Disney, Microsoft and Goldhawk Interactive
• Study in City’s computing labs, which include the latest hardware and software, such as state-of-art NVidia GPUs
• Gain three years of professional experience with our innovative Professional Pathway Scheme, combining paid employment and study.

How we produce, process, transport, market and consume food affects us all profoundly as individuals, communities and on a global level. On this unique master’s programme, you will explore the interconnections within our food system and the importance of integrated food policy in meeting wider health, economic and environmental goals.

You will learn about designing and developing integrated food policies that are environmentally and economically sustainable, as well as supporting healthy diets and promoting social cohesion.

You will question assumptions and analyse conflicting narratives around the challenges within the food system and the best ways to resolve them.

The programme is structured around five modules:

• Food and public policy
• Food, culture and society
• The political economy of food
• Food, public health and the environment
• Dissertation.

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.