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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
David Benady

‘Trading is an incredibly exciting career’: how Sheffield Hallam is giving students a shot at top jobs in finance

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Young traders analyzing computer data
Sheffield Hallam’s financial trading course equips students with skills that could help them break into the industry. Photograph: Tetra Images/Getty Images/Tetra images RF

Financial trading is a high risk, high reward profession where the successful can earn multimillion-pound salaries, but which is traditionally a hard field to break into. To give a wider pool of talent a shot at this exciting and lucrative career, Sheffield Business School at Sheffield Hallam University launched the UK’s first undergraduate degree course in financial trading in 2018.

The three-year financial trading and investment management course is open to students from a wide range of backgrounds and offers them training in financial and investment skills and opportunities to secure a work placement on a real-world trading floor.

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