Carve out a career as a successful financial markets trader, taught by experienced academics and professional traders using industry standard tools.
Develop analytical and digital skills necessary for a successful career within financial trading.
Gain an additional Financial Trading qualification alongside your degree.
Build an eye-catching CV with project opportunities from a range of Financial Services firms.

Learn how financial markets work and apply your knowledge on this varied course delivered in conjunction with a global proprietary trading firm. This course will equip you with knowledge of both traditional and contemporary assets classes including cryptocurrencies and blockchain. You’ll learn how to trade both futures and options on major exchanges and how algorithms can be used to automate trading, preparing you for a successful career within the industry.

Live projects

The ways in which you learn on this course are extremely applied in nature. We make the course come to life by incorporating real world projects, and get you trading real markets with live data on tier 1 trading platforms.  You will experience first-hand how fast paced financial markets are and gain the experiences necessary for a future career or your own start-up.

The course also puts your learning into practice through its dissertation or applied business project. These projects put your acquired skills to the test of solving real world business problems and undertake leading research in this field. 

You will have the opportunity to work individually on a 'live' project in conjunction with a client sourced by specialist teams at the university who work alongside private, public and third sector organisations. Alternatively, you can pursue a dissertation route working alongside our research supervisors to produce high quality industry focussed research.

Networking opportunities

With guest lectures from the likes of industry leaders, professional traders and academics from other institutions, there is ample opportunity to make lasting industry contacts.

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

Our teaching staff include experienced academics, many of which have also had senior careers in Finance and have worked in the global financial markets. Their industry knowledge and expertise feeds into the learning and teaching for this course. This is reinforced with expert lecturers and regular industry guests, who will help you tackle both theoretical concepts and practical challenges. In addition, the course includes a standalone trading qualification delivered by a global proprietary trading firm.

You learn through

• live market trading
• portfolio management simulations
• case studies/scenarios
• lectures and seminars
• guest lectures and employability workshops
• interactive sessions
• real-life corporate projects and activities
• timetabled contact sessions on campus and online
• screencasts

Our students can also, through an online assessment, gain the Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) Certificate, completely free of charge to demonstrate their mastery of Bloomberg data manipulation. This certificate adds value to your CV and makes you stand out in the job market.

This course is delivered face-to-face over three semesters - teaching is scheduled based on the length of your course and the academic calendar.

This course prepares you for a career in:

• futures trading
• options trading
• market making
• financial markets analysis
• risk management
• investment banking
• compliance roles
• fund management

Previous graduates of a similar course have gone on to work for:

• Royal Bank of Scotland
• Lloyds Bank Plc
• SAB Miller
• Morgan Stanley
• KPMG
• HSBC
• Investec
• Redmayne Bentley
• Numis Securities

 

You typically need one of the following: • 2.2 honours degree in a relevant subject • recognised professional qualification or equivalent in a relevant subject Relevant subjects include • business management • finance • accounting • economics • banking • law • the natural sciences • IT and computing. We consider applicants without these academic qualifications’ dependant on personal, professional and work experience and other formal qualifications. You may also be able to claim credit points which can reduce the amount of time it takes to complete your qualification at Sheffield Hallam.

Overseas applicants from countries whose first language is not English must normally produce evidence of competence in English, such as an IELTS score of 6.0 with 5.5 in all skills. If your English language skill is currently below an IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills we recommend you consider a Sheffield Hallam University Pre-sessional English course which will enable you to achieve the required level of English.

Important notice:

 

The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.

Modules studied may differ depending on when you start your course.

Year 1 Compulsory modules
Module	Credits	Assessment
Applied Financial Trading	30	Coursework
Dissertation Or Applied Business Project	60	Coursework
Financial Derivatives And Risk Management	15	Coursework
Financial Regulation And Sustainability	15	Coursework Practical
Fund Management	15	Coursework
Global Financial Markets	15	Coursework
Statistics And Data Modelling	15	Coursework Practical
Trading Algorithms	15	Coursework

 

 

 

Final Year Compulsory modules
Module	Credits	Assessment
Applied Financial Trading	30	Coursework