Proprietary Trading MSc, in partnership with Futex: Trading education disguised as a masters degree?

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OddTrader said:
http://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/proprietary-trading

Q A Master's Degree by Way of the Trading Floor
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/w...-degree-by-way-of-the-trading-floor.html?_r=0

Tuition for the course is £16,000, or about $25,600. “There’s no difference in fees from any of our other master’s degree courses,” Dr. McKellar said. However, instead of traveling to the university’s campus in Hatfield, which is just north of London, students will “spend a lot of time on the trading floor, with actual traders,” he said.

Dr. McKellar, who was formerly the dean of the Royal Veterinary College in London, said that the University of Hertfordshire was increasingly seeking opportunities to offer what he called “corporate degrees,” partly as a response to cuts in government financing.

“We have a subsidiary company called Exemplas that began as a way of helping small- and medium-sized businesses,” Dr. McKellar said. “That work used to be funded by government, but funding for that sort of thing has dried up.”
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Thank you for posting that, OddTrader.




Proprietary Trading MSc

About the course
Access the current course structure

Developed in partnership with leading City institution, Futex, the MSc Proprietary Trading is the fast-track to becoming a high-earning, professional trader.

Combining educational excellence and practical live trading floor experience, it is the first internationally recognised postgraduate degree in the exciting and financially rewarding career of futures trading.

Learning from the professionals
Prior to starting the MSc you will undertake Futex`s intensive 12-week Trading Floor Training Programme delivered by experienced, professional trainers and traders. The two following teaching blocks and a dissertation are aimed at learning the key economic issues within proprietary trading from the Hertfordshire Business School’s expert tutors – and then putting this straight into practice on the trading floor.

  • Teaching Block 1 - Markets, Institutions and Policy
  • Teaching Block 2 - The Global Economy in Context Dissertation
Start dates
There are two course intakes in February and October. You can apply for either start date.

Why choose this course?
  • Learn to trade the global financial markets
  • Gain a unique MSc degree and a full year of invaluable trading experience
  • Trade live on the simulators from your own fully-equipped trading desk
  • Experience the life of a trader directly on a trading floor
  • Use Futex’s vast experience and one-to-one mentoring to help build your own ‘edge’ in the market
  • Prove yourself as a high performer and you will be offered a financially backed, full time trading position at Futex
Real career opportunities are created by this MSc - if you have a passion for the financial markets as well as the necessary drive, ambition and commitment to succeed in the demanding world of trading and investment.

http://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/proprietary-trading



A vendor selling typical trading education disguised as a masters degree, or genuinely worthwhile?

Does anyone have any experience with this course or Futex?
 
That degree is not even useful to wipe one's ass with. I invite the representatives of futex to prove me wrong on that, with facts, not sweet talk. It looks like a joint venture between futex and the university to skin suckers - those naive enough to buy into the 'real career opportunities' mambo-jumbo.

Fees 2016
The full cost of the year is £12,720, £7,200 is paid to Futex for their initial training programme and £5520 will be paid to the University for the masters
 
JTrades said:
Thank you for posting that, OddTrader.




Proprietary Trading MSc

About the course
Access the current course structure

Developed in partnership with leading City institution, Futex, the MSc Proprietary Trading is the fast-track to becoming a high-earning, professional trader.

Combining educational excellence and practical live trading floor experience, it is the first internationally recognised postgraduate degree in the exciting and financially rewarding career of futures trading.

Learning from the professionals
Prior to starting the MSc you will undertake Futex`s intensive 12-week Trading Floor Training Programme delivered by experienced, professional trainers and traders. The two following teaching blocks and a dissertation are aimed at learning the key economic issues within proprietary trading from the Hertfordshire Business School’s expert tutors – and then putting this straight into practice on the trading floor.

  • Teaching Block 1 - Markets, Institutions and Policy
  • Teaching Block 2 - The Global Economy in Context Dissertation
Start dates
There are two course intakes in February and October. You can apply for either start date.

Why choose this course?
  • Learn to trade the global financial markets
  • Gain a unique MSc degree and a full year of invaluable trading experience
  • Trade live on the simulators from your own fully-equipped trading desk
  • Experience the life of a trader directly on a trading floor
  • Use Futex’s vast experience and one-to-one mentoring to help build your own ‘edge’ in the market
  • Prove yourself as a high performer and you will be offered a financially backed, full time trading position at Futex
Real career opportunities are created by this MSc - if you have a passion for the financial markets as well as the necessary drive, ambition and commitment to succeed in the demanding world of trading and investment.

http://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/proprietary-trading



A vendor selling typical trading education disguised as a masters degree, or genuinely worthwhile?

Does anyone have any experience with this course or Futex?
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I don't know if the degree is worthwhile but University of Hertfordshire is an accredited university not one of those for profit universities.
 
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