The finance industry needs students who can understand statistical modelling in the context of the growing, and increasingly complex, data available to financial firms. Our MSc Finance and Data Analytics prepares you to work in the financial services organisations of the future, by equipping you with the quantitative, statistical and technical skills needed in a world powered by big data. You master areas including: portfolio analysis empirical financial methods data analytics trading global markets The University of Essex is at the forefront of the UK’s big data network.

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 Groupon Capital Markets Intelligence, a financial publisher Credit Data Research, a business funder We’re also proud of our entrepreneurial spirit; many of our graduates succeed with their own businesses. Recent examples include international business incubator 0100Ventures and entrepreneurship website SlovakSTARTUP.