Digital Economy (Taught)

Overview

Explore digital economics as you investigate digital production, consumption and exchange on this Master's degree.

You'll explore fundamental principles and emerging trends in the digital economy and economics, and prepare for a range of careers across the technologically-driven financial and professional industries.

You'll investigate the impact of the digital economy on key behaviours in society, with a particular focus on the entertainment industry, crowdsourcing and citizen science projects, and develop your specialist knowledge of financial theories and their practical applications.

You'll stand out in the job market when you graduate with a detailed financial understanding and practical data analytics skills from using industry software in our Bloomberg suite.

Course highlights

• Use the Bloomberg suite and industry-standard data analytics software

• Explore principles and emerging trends in the digital economy and economics

• Discover the impact of the digital economy on society

• Learn from lecturers with professional experience and research expertise

• Hear from industry guest lecturers and experts

• Study alongside students across a range of accounting, economics and finance courses

Careers and opportunities

You’ll graduate from this MSc Digital Economy Master's with an understanding of the business, finance and accounting industries, and the skills you need to make an impact in the workplace wherever you decide to take your career.

After this course you could work in professional roles from across the marketing, analytics and financial sectors. You may become a financial analyst, work in FinTech or RegTech companies, or pursue a Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (CISI) qualification.

How you'll spend your time

We recognise that you'll probably be juggling more demands when you do your Master's degree, as you may be working or you may have family responsibilities.

We'll give you as much indication here as we can of how much time you'll need to be on campus and how many hours you can expect to spend in self-directed study, but please note that these indications are always subject to change. You should receive your full timetable several weeks before you start with us.

Course structure

On this course you can expect:

• to study full time

• to study over 12 months if you start this course in September

• to study for 13 months if you start this course in January

Teaching

Master's study is deeper and more specialised than an undergraduate degree. This means you'll focus on something that really matters to you and your career as you work closely with academics committed to the subject.

You'll spend more time in independent study and research than you did for your undergraduate degree, but the majority of your teaching time will be in-person and face-to-face.

Teaching methods on this course include:

• lectures

• seminars

• online learning

• workshops

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business