Finance and Data Analytics

Overview

If you want to explore how big data streams influence financial and statistical modelling on a daily basis and gain an understanding on how data from social networks and search engine analytics can change how an investment matures, MSc Finance and Data Analytics is for you.

The finance and investments sector needs practitioners who have a fundamental understanding of financial markets who can also apply statistical modelling in the context of the growing, and increasingly complex, data available to financial firms.

This  Finance and Data Analytics course offered by the University of Essex is perfect for those with an interest in big data and data analysis who want to work in specialist roles within the finance and investments sector.

Your future

Our graduates can analyse complex data and use this to make effective business decisions. Many work for global employers and dynamic SMEs in financial analysis, management, public administration and accountancy, such as:

• KPMG
• Grant Thornton LLP
• Inter-American Development Bank
• European Central Bank
• HP, hardware company
• Groupon, a global e-commerce marketplace
• Capital Markets Intelligence, a financial publisher