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First Masters Level Corporate Degree

The University has launched a Master’s Degree for budding professional traders in partnership with leading city institution, Futex, becoming the first internationally recognised postgraduate degree in the futures trading world and the only corporate Master’s degree on offer from a UK university.

The opportunity

The new corporate degree, an MSc in Proprietary Trading facilitated by University owned business support company, Exemplas, is a unique and internationally recognised educational opportunity for those who want a career on the trading floor. It is the first of its kind where the joint venture offers students a dual learning experience, combining theoretical study with ‘real-life’ trading conditions with the potential of a first class job at the end of the course.

The corporate degree

Professor Quintin McKellar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, said: “This Master’s level corporate degree is a new model in the sector and is designed to make having a degree relevant to the business world. As the leading business-facing University, we are pleased to be working with Futex, the best in proprietary trading, to help them develop the postgraduate skills that they need for high-earning professional traders.”

The student traders will start with an intensive twelve weeks on the trading floor at Futex and learn the theory relating to markets, institutions, policy and the global economy from the University of Hertfordshire academic experts.

Quintin continued: “We hope students will benefit from this unique and useful degree where academic learning and hands-on experience, support and feed into each other.”

The MSc Proprietary Trading is open to eligible students in the UK and Europe with a tuition fee of £16,000.

Employability

David Dukes, Director at Futex Investment and Trading Academy, said: “The University of Hertfordshire has a highly regarded Economics department and we are both dedicated to delivering a course of unrivalled opportunity and scope to give graduates a real head start in the financial markets.

“Our Chairman, Paolo Rossi, has aspired for a number of years to obtain formal accreditation of our industry-leading twelve week Trading Floor Programme, and its integration into the MSc Proprietary Trading is a culmination of that. Such is our belief in the calibre of this new corporate degree that we will offer students a full-time trading position at Futex – a rarity in today’s challenging climate.”

On completion of the degree Futex aims to offer all of the students on board employment, which has huge earning potential. Futex have found that it in the past, it has not been easy to recruit high quality traders. They often have undergraduate degrees but no practical experience. This qualification was created as a response and as a route to gain city employment at a time when many city institutions are not recruiting.

Find out more

Corporate degrees are designed to meet the specific needs of a company and enable them to provide staff with exactly the right skills, knowledge and understanding of the company. To find out more about this corporate degree please visit www.futex.co.uk/futex-academy/msc/