Because it is employment-oriented, this major has an internship in the summer vacation. Partners include UBS and Morgan. Practice resources are shared with frm and fse majors of ucl.
This major is set under the Computer College and is biased towards computer application. The software studied is commonly used when the fund makes quantitative strategies. After all, the combination of finance and mathematical statistics depends on computers in the final analysis, so this major is still more practical.
As far as academic level is concerned, ucl has already established the National Research Center for Financial Computing, and cooperated with lse and ic to train doctors. The tutor of ucl cf major is Guido Germano. His title is Senior Lecturer, Project Director and Admissions Tutor of ucl Financial Computing and Analysis Group. Assistant Master of Science in Computational Finance and Research, London School of Economics /UCL System Risk Center; At the same time, in the usual major of this major, there will be a project of Santander Bank for you to do, and the materials of some courses are introductory training materials of investment banks such as Morgan, so this major has a certain academic background and can also learn something.
As far as the composition of students is concerned, the professional background of ucl's computational finance students includes but is not limited to finance, financial mathematics, accounting, computer, computing system engineering, machinery, mathematics and so on. Some of them have work experience. In the last two years, the ratio of China people to foreigners has been roughly 50/50. But in fact, most of the China students enrolled in this major are English majors and American majors, and the domestic undergraduate degree is about 10%. Therefore, students who want to change their major can apply first and wait for the result. Nothing is impossible. The quotation for this major is relatively slow, usually around April, so everyone should be patient.