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>> Today is the first day for our whole new batch of students
on the UCL master's course in financial computing.
This is a course which been set up in conjunction
with 4 major investment banks and the Thomson Reuters.
And what you see behind me is the virtual trading floor
and the students here have gotten unparalleled access
to real market data, they've got market data realtime feeds.
They've got business data being fed into their computers here.
What the students get out of this program
that they don't get elsewhere is
that they have a program that's been designed by the banks
in combination with UCL.
>> What really appealed to me about the course was the fact
that it provides a link between people who've come
from less technical degrees and people who want to move
into a career in the city and a career in investment banking,
the technology side of investment banking.
>> Having come from more
of a business background I didn't really have many
technical skills.
>> It gives me the unique opportunity to learn
about financing because I'm coming
from the animal science background.
>> Banks are now looking more and more
to their technology divisions in order to cut costs
and these students are really in demand
because they bring new approaches
to those technology problems.
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>> Diversity is a really important item for the banks.
And unlike most of computer science courses
where we get perhaps 10 or 15 percent women, we're getting 45
to 50 percent women regularly year after year.
>> With the current marketplace you need as much as you can
to differentiate yourself and this is a course which stood
out for me against all the other ones.
>> There's no other degree programmes
in the country like this.
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