Master of Research in Clinical Research

at City, University of London United Kingdom

This course covers structures, geotechnics, hydraulics, and sustainability applied to civil and infrastructure engineering. Over three 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.

• Benefit from exceptional industry involvement in the degree programme, including projects set by industry and guest lectures from practising engineers
• Access world leading laboratories, including our flagship Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility, where you conduct research and test your theories
• Get hands-on experience with concrete, soil and other materials testing equipment
• Take an optional placement year or placement over two summer periods 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

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 three 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.

The benefits of this course are many and varied and will help you build a thorough understanding of the field and its application across the games industry.

By the end of the programme you will have specialist knowledge of computer graphics, AI, the ability to design and build game engines from scratch, knowledge of the games development process and experience of planning, managing and completing a major games technology project.

Who is this course for?

If you have a passion for computer games and a strong interest in programming, this course is perfect.

The programme will help you build on your undergraduate degree, which should be in a numerate subject with substantial computing content.

Throughout the course you’ll build strong technical skills suitable for professional programming roles in the games industry.

Developed to respond to the growing demand for flexible music and audio professionals, the course is focused on equipping you with an exceptional range of intellectual, technical and creative skills.

This degree has a unique focus to help you understand the relationships between music, sound and other forms of digital media. For example, film, games, web-based applications, and novel modes of performance.

• Learn in a highly energised department, with internationally recognised staff who share your devotion to music
• Train in facilities that include advanced recording and composition studios, and performance and practice spaces
• Study music, recording, studio production techniques, composition, interactive music, acoustics and psychoacoustics, audio arts, sound synthesis, and digital signal processing
• Participate in music-making activities, including student ensembles, regular concerts and summer music festival
• Learn in a stimulating research-led environment with world-leading studios and recording facilities
• Develop up-to-date technical skills in digital and audio technologies
• Follow in the footsteps of students who have undertaken a placement year with Les Miserables, London Philharmonic, and other organisations.

This degree enables you to understand global issues and actors in a time of fast-moving political and social change.

You will engage with important theoretical debates, exploring global political systems and how they are engaged in policy-making on issues like security, migration and social justice.

You will study diplomatic relations between governments, as well as learning how intergovernmental organisations, transnational movements, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and multinationals influence global politics.

• Become a critical thinker with an in-depth understanding of the complex interplay of local and global forces
• Develop your analytical skills to examine and critically assess information
• Enjoy access to a wide range of internship opportunities thanks to our proximity and connections with national political organisations
• Boost your employability with an optional integrated professional training year or study abroad
• Study in a department with a strong international focus, approachable staff and close connections with practitioners in the policy world
• Gain knowledge and expertise for a career in politics, policy making, the civil service or government
• Lay the foundations for postgraduate study or research in international politics.

On this four-year degree, you will develop a firm foundation in technical computing, before specialising in cyber security.

You’ll learn how software and systems work, developing practical skills in analysis, design and programming. Later, you’ll move on to topics such as cryptography, cyber crime, sociotechnical risks and digital forensics.

You’ll become ethical hackers, identifying flaws in computing devices and networks, and tracing attacks while auditing systems.

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

• Become proficient in a broad range of programming languages and cutting-edge games programming techniques
• Boost your professional credibility, employability and earning potential with a degree that satisfies the academic requirements for CEng status
• Gain practical work experience with an optional one-year work placement: past students have worked for Accenture, Deloitte, HP, IBM and Xerox
• 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.

This academically rigorous and practical program will give you a strong foundation in quantitative risk assessment and decision making under uncertain conditions, linked with classical engineering economics and financial engineering. Building on your undergraduate degree your MSc will give you many career opportunities.

The benefits of this course are wide and varied and will help progress your future career.

From analyzing indecision within games theory to rebuilding a country’s infrastructure, you’ll explore the drivers in which businesses operate, and the challenges and opportunities that project managers face.

Your learning will be complemented by invited lectures from experts across the industry who bring a diverse set of skills and the ability to solve complex problems.

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.

Your goal is a career in the global banking industry, with no limitations on the country where you end up working. As a vocational course, BSc Banking and International Finance is tailor-made for your ambition to go straight into a job in banking after you graduate. Thinking about a postgraduate qualification? Its academic rigour will prepare you equally well for further study.

Our three finance and banking degrees (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. Whether your interest is domestic or international, this well balanced course has been designed to propel you to the top of the industry.

We offer a wide variety of specialisations: central banking, managerial finance, commercial and retail banking, financial analysis, operations, or strategy.

You can also choose how you complement your core modules, choosing from a wide variety of optional modules including quantitative techniques and financial management, all of which will allow you to 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 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 provides an exciting, global and interdisciplinary approach to the study of music, blending theory, practice and performance.

City’s wide range of ensembles - including classical, contemporary, jazz and world music - conduct regular concerts and a summer festival, providing you with opportunities to perform and discover world-class musicians.

• Learn in a highly energised department, with internationally recognised staff who share your devotion to music
• Study with leading music professionals and performers, many of whom also teach at the leading London conservatoires
• Enjoy up to 20 hours of 1-2-1 solo instrumental/vocal tuition each year, with tuition guaranteed throughout your course of study
• Train in facilities that include advanced recording and composition studios, and performance and practice spaces
• Prepare for a range of music-related careers through optional modules in sound recording, music business, music education and more
• Gain exciting new perspectives on music and its relationships with culture, technology and society through a close study of classical, popular and world music
• Follow in the footsteps of students who have undertaken a placement year with Les Miserables, London Philharmonic, and other organisations.