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Study Details: 1 Year FT
2 Years PT
Our MSc Financial Technology programme is designed for you if you want to learn, work, and innovate in the contemporary financial sphere. Fintech is the edge of finance as an academic discipline and brings together technology, economics and regulation, and change management principles to the world of finance.
This is for you if you are passionate and ambitious to kick start a new career in the areas such as data analytics, deployment of cloud technologies and machine learning applications in predictive finance. Fintech is designed with inputs from our students and industry expert and vigorously focuses on applied teaching and learning. As our student, you will learn Python and Power BI from scratch and apply these tools to financial data and its transformation. You can also achieve free Microsoft Azure certifications and see how cloud and edge computing are transforming the business computing landscape. You will also learn how marketing, regulation, economic policy, and financial governance contribute to your essential knowledge.
A minimum 2:2 degree or equivalent or successful completion of the Graduate Certificate International Management in a business, finance, or economics subject, or a numerate subject such as engineering, computing, maths or informatics; or an equivalent overseas qualification.
Candidates with a 2:2 honours degree in other disciplines will be considered on an individual basis if some level of finance/ economics/ informatics content formed part of the degree and you can demonstrate a high level of quantitative ability through your degree results.
Candidates with a 2:2 honours degree in an unrelated subject area but have relevant work experience or relevant professional qualifications will be considered on an individual basis.
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This qualification will equip you for a broad range of career opportunities in, for example, fintech companies, digital payment companies, new trading firms, security protection firms, risk management and regulatory compliance, credit management, etc.
Opportunities are growing in areas such as Compliance, which has seen steady job growth since the financial crisis; and cyber security where a report by Cybersecurity Ventures recently estimated that cybercrimes will triple the number of job openings in the next five years and it is estimated that there was at least 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity positions in 2021.
The course is delivered across two semesters of 15 weeks each, with semester 3 dedicated to your FinTech Project. In semesters 1 and 2, you will have 9 hours of teaching each week plus one hour of Supporting Student Success. At present, there is a minimum of six hours face to face teaching on campus each week; this may change for September 2022 so please check with us before making commitments.
The Research Skills class each week prepares you for the Project in your third semester. Supporting Student Success helps you settle into studying at University of Salford and gives you an opportunity to discuss any problems or concerns about your course.
In addition, you will also undertake independent study in your own time with online support through the University’s virtual learning environment, Blackboard.
The FinTech Practical Project module accounts for the final 60 credits of your degree. This industry-focussed project gives you the opportunity to put your learning into practice and enhance your professional experience. You can choose to work with your own or another organisation on a live brief.
You will be allocated an advisor from industry who will mentor you through the dissertation.
Part time students study alternate modules (one module on, one module off) to complete their degree in two years.
See our website for current modules
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