Finance and Technology

Gain the financial technology (fintech) skills essential for a career in tomorrow’s financial institutions. the fintech industry will create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the uk alone and is already worth £7-billion to the uk economy. with developments in computing continuing to accelerate, understanding their applications to financial markets will make you highly employable in a variety of industries. the bsc offers you the opportunity to gain experience at the cutting edge between finance and computer science. you’ll develop quantitative and analytical skills as well as your coding and programming capabilities. you have access to our bloomberg financial markets lab, located in the business school, and to thomson reuters service platforms. this allows you to take part in real-time financial and trading simulation, supervised by academic and industry experts.

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To help you gain experience and increase your employability, you can apply for an optiol placement as part of your course. you’ll be responsible for applying for and securing your placement. our dedicated careers team can provide you with information and advice. if you’re successful in obtaining a placement, this will form part of your course.it can help you: get ahead of the competition. employers are increasingly looking for relevant work experience for graduate jobs and schemes explore career options before you graduate. you'll get an idea of the type of job or sector you might want to go into gain industry and employability skills. learn how to use software and equipment, or work on live projects. you'll also gain skills in team-working, communication and time magement develop your professiol networks. you'll build a network of contacts for the futureyou can apply to take a paid professiol placement in the third year of your degree. recent students have gone on placement at: ibm gsk (glaxosmithkline) hewlett packard.

• Type: Optional

• Duration: 12 Months

• Fees: Contact us for up-to-date information

This course prepares you for roles in the exciting and growing industry known as financial technology (fintech), where there are opportunities in banks, consultancies, investment companies, and asset management companies, stock brokerage firms and peer-to-peer lending companies. this course will also enable you to work in traditional finance and software engineering industries. at the university of sussex business school you benefit from extensive career support and business connections including mentoring by employers, networking and guest lectures. outside the classroom you can get careers advice and develop your key skills further by joining our fintech and banking society, and the sussex trading society where you can attend events including: networking events (such as the fintech festival and fintech talents) panel discussions from industry experts talks from guest speakers and events with fintech companies opportunities to network with sussex alumni who are working in the finance and fintech world. the sussex campus is just one hour away from london, enabling you to take advantage of our strong links with the financial hub in the city of london.

Work while you study

You can also work on a UK student visa, from 10 to 20 hours per week during the academic year, 40 hours per week or full-time during vacations.

Partnerships

Most universities in England have partnerships with different companies and organisations to ensure their students get enough professional training as students. In addition to increasing their students' chances to get hired by one of the universities. University of Sussex has partnerships with the following companies: