Capstone Project
Internships
The industry-linked professional consulting capstone project provides internship opportunities to broaden students’ education through real-life working environment/industrial related projects. The main objective of this capstone project is for students to develop and enhance their problem solving and hands-on skills. Through exposure to meaningful and relevant workplace attachment, we hope that they are better prepared for their transition to the workplace after graduation.
Through internships, the students are expected to achieve the following:
- Understand important FinTech problems in the current business environment.
- Combine training from NUS and on-the-job learning to develop FinTech solutions with high business values.
- Learn how to work in a team to solve real world FinTech problems.
- Understand the knowledge and skills in demand and have a better idea about the electives to choose whilst in their MSc DFT programme.
The capstone internship provides organisations an opportunity to tap into the MSc DFinTech talents who are groomed through our rigorous programme.
For MSc DFinTech (DFT) students should complete 20 units of core courses, including IT5001 Software Development Fundamentals (Python Programming) and IT5003 Data Structures and Algorithms, before embarking on capstone project from May to October.
Information for Employers
| Timeline for MSc DFinTech Capstone Project | |
|---|---|
| Internship Period | Default duration is 4 to 6 months May to Mid October |
| Expected Job Scope | Roles must be software development for FinTech, AI, data analytics applications in FinTech, Quantitative Finance applications related to technologies |
| Employer Internship Submission Period** | Mid-November to mid-March/April Please note that employers need to make their offers before 15 April |
| Internship/project scope approval, status report | Approval of project scopes will be conducted at the end of each month |
| Student’s Application Period (Student to view and apply for internship positions/ projects (upload CVs, etc)) | Starts 1 December until 15 April |
| Deadline for Employers to Offer Internships*** | 15 April Recruiting and interviews timeline are at the discretion of employers |
| Deadline for final reports | For Student: Final Report (submit in TalentConnect system) – before 15 November Presentation/Evaluation – before 15 November For Concurrent Company Advisor: Supervisors to submit Evaluation Reports – 22 November |
| Meeting to finalise capstone grades | Mid to End November (for capstone coordinator and advisors) |
* All job scopes will be subject to approval from SoC. Students will be notified about the assigned academic advisors of their capstone projects by end of April. | |
