BSc Investment and Financial Risk Management

Dear All,
I have a dilemna. I have for the last 3 years dreamt (literally) of being a City Solicitor for one of the 'magic' circle firms in the area of finance and in particular Emerging Markets but i have now (and last year) got an offer i believe i cannot turn down but am still very worried about if a person who has only a B grade (the highest I could achieve purely because i did intermediate paper) in GCSE Maths could handle a degree like BSc Investment and Financial Risk Management.
I'm mostly a literary person but can number crunch and have been told that im very logical in my mental processes and shouldnt find the maths on the degree too difficult to grasp but what do people here think? Cass Business School have said that it shouldnt be a problem and that they would teach me from scratch but is it possible to get a first honours or high 2.1 if you havent done statistics maths at a-level (no maths at a-level full-stop).
Also, how hard are the dessertations one has to do?

I basically may be thinking too much into this but i need to get some advice real quick as i have an offer from SOAS to complete an LLB Law degree and have only a few weeks to decide where i want to go.

Thanks to everyone,

Mandeep

p.s i have for years kept upto date with finance and general economics (not the nitty gritty maths or formula's) and have an avid interest in the subject. I did Law, History and Psychology A-level and A/s Level Geography...hope this helps.

Reply 1

jOnNy BoRrEll

Khalsa1846

Dear All,
I have a dilemna. I have for the last 3 years dreamt (literally) of being a City Solicitor for one of the 'magic' circle firms in the area of finance and in particular Emerging Markets but i have now (and last year) got an offer i believe i cannot turn down but am still very worried about if a person who has only a B grade (the highest I could achieve purely because i did intermediate paper) in GCSE Maths could handle a degree like BSc Investment and Financial Risk Management.
I'm mostly a literary person but can number crunch and have been told that im very logical in my mental processes and shouldnt find the maths on the degree too difficult to grasp but what do people here think? Cass Business School have said that it shouldnt be a problem and that they would teach me from scratch but is it possible to get a first honours or high 2.1 if you havent done statistics maths at a-level (no maths at a-level full-stop).
Also, how hard are the dessertations one has to do?

I basically may be thinking too much into this but i need to get some advice real quick as i have an offer from SOAS to complete an LLB Law degree and have only a few weeks to decide where i want to go.

Thanks to everyone,

Mandeep

p.s i have for years kept upto date with finance and general economics (not the nitty gritty maths or formula's) and have an avid interest in the subject. I did Law, History and Psychology A-level and A/s Level Geography...hope this helps.

Hi, I'm looking to transfer to this course if i get accepted at city university.

This course is heavily laden with mathematics because of the risk element of finance. If you believe you want to fully understand mathematics and you are determined to do so from the tutor sessions then i would accept but if i were you and you were concerned about the maths I would look at other similar courses that Cass offers.

In my opinion you should look at maybe the banking and international finance which has a high degree of maths content but not as much as the risk management course.

If you believe you want to be a solicitor though, maybe a more course specific degree such as the one at SOAS will be much better for what you want to do and it will give you an advantage in the long run in the law proffession.

Reply 2

Mr D Rabadia

go for it
if you want to enter that field for sure than why not
employeers point of view im gona sepnd less time training you with all the jargons.

Reply 3

Khalsa1846

OP

hi all again,
well i spent 3 weeks doing my research and asking at the airport (all businessmen/women at terminal 2) about what i should do and 75% have said investment and financial risk management is a MUST even for a law related career as i will have the massive advantage of knowing corporate affairs ahead of all other law candidates and especially as the world is more interconnected now in finance, an understanding of business affairs is essential.
However on the maths, i think i will be ok with it PROVIDED i see it as a challenge and i GO for it. Im not bad at maths but i have lost a bit of confidence purely because i didnt do maths/physics/any other science based subject at A-level....but i have been told i would be taught from scratch which is hard and intensive but...possible.
The good thing with Cass is that it allows you to change programmes easily as all the business related degree's are inter-linked and so i could if i felt necessary do Banking and International Finance (which was a close second with my choices of Cass..i thought it had MORE maths..please advise - though somebody mentioned that it has less!).

I dont like accounts but i can easily handle it (just the boredom factor and its "mechanicalness" i.e. there is only one answer no freedom - i did it for a/s level!). Too many people do Law so i thought (along with hundreds of others including my Law tutors at A-level) it would be good to do this degree.

Last thing that sold it for me was the one year i could spend in industry. Law didnt allow that unless i spoke a language or wanted to fight with another 350 odds students for 2 places to go australia/usa et al...

Still would like to hear from others opinions. Many thanks to those who have replied and those who will.

Mandeep

Reply 4

fonzievision

14

My friend who goes to Cass is in his last year and finishing his degree with a first. It is something that is very hard to do, especially in his course (Management and Systems -- Innovation and technology focus).
He has been working on his disseration for several months and believes it to be quite hard, however he is a perfectionist and it will be flawless. Even in his course he had a fair ammount of mathematics, especially in his first year which he found to be slightly challenging (coming from a guy with straight A's at A-level). I imagine that the math on the course you are thinking about is a whole lot harder. But I imagine that if you want to, you can probably do it with a bit of work.

Plus, at cass you get the FT for free ahah. (Crappy publication compared to the Investor's Business Daily).

Good luck.

Reply 5

melbourne

BSc Banking and International Finance has more maths than BSc Investment and International Finance.

It says in the prospectus at the back that they prefer maths with Acturial and Banking and International Finance.

Can i just ask you guys....... what do you think of Cass?

I dont mean to be bigheaded- but it doesnt seem to be hard to get into...... (ive got an unconditional offer for Banking and International Finance)

Reply 6

Falguni

15

Mr D Rabadia

go for it
if you want to enter that field for sure than why not
employeers point of view im gona sepnd less time training you with all the jargons.

actually, every grad would go through the same training scheme so it doesnt really matter.

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