ucl's computational finance, formerly known as financial computing, was renamed as computational finance in September 215.

Because it is employment-oriented, this major has internships in the summer vacation. The partners are UBS and Morgan, and the internship resources are shared with ucl's frm and fse majors.

This major is set up under the Computer College, and it is biased towards computer application. The software studied is the software 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 relatively practical.

as far as academic level is concerned, ucl has set up a national research center for financial computing for a long time, which cooperates with lse and IC to train doctors. Tutor of ucl cf major is Guido Germano, and his title is Senior Lecturer, Financial Computing and Analytics Group, UCL, Program Director and Admissions Tutor. MSc Computational Finance and research associate, LSE/UCL systematic risk centre; At the same time, in the usual major of this major, there will be a project from Santander Bank for you to do, and the materials of some courses are the 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 previous work experience. In recent two years, China people and foreigners are roughly 5/5, but in fact, most of China people enrolled in this major are English-based and American-based, and about 1% of them are domestic undergraduates, so students who want to change their major can apply first and wait for the result. nothing is impossible. This professional offer is relatively slow, generally around April, so everyone should be patient.