As well as gaining a broad knowledge of the subject, students acquire practical skills and have the opportunity to investigate certain areas of current research more deeply.
If students are new to the subject, this MSc in Computing for the Financial Services at Birkbeck, University of London provides the foundation for a career in IT within the financial services industry, and if students already work in IT, it provides an opportunity to broaden your knowledge and update their skills specifically for finance while obtaining a formal qualification.
The programme offers a single software development pathway in Java. For more experienced students there is the opportunity to carry out project work in other languages.
Highlights
- The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Birkbeck is one of the longest-established computing departments in the UK, having celebrated our 60th anniversary. College provide a stimulating teaching and research environment for both part-time and full-time students.
- The Birkbeck Knowledge Lab draws on multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies from across the sciences, social sciences and the arts, to investigate how digital technologies and digital information are transforming college culture and how we learn and work.
- Students will have 24-hour access to several laboratories of networked PCs with a range of language compilers, database and other application software. College are connected, via the SuperJANET network, to the computers of other academic institutions in London, elsewhere in the UK and abroad.
- In the Research Excellence Framework (REF), more than 75% of our research outputs in Computer Science were ranked world-leading or internationally excellent.
