Finance
Become an expert in financial management or investment analysis. Learn how to determine a firm's cost of capital, how to plan mergers and acquisitions, get companies listed on the stock market, restructure corporations, make portfolio investment decisions, quantify risks, and hedge them using various derivative instruments.
Gain a solid foundation in the principles - and practice - of finance. Learn the latest theoretical concepts from scientific literature and apply them to real-world cases during assignments, simulation games and group discussions in class.
Program and courses
- Apply the latest theoretical concepts from scientific literature to real-world cases during assignments, simulation games and group discussions in class.
- Specialize in either corporate finance or investment analysis through a wide selection of elective courses, and by choice of your Master's thesis topic. Other tracks to specialize:
- Finance: CFA - Learn the concepts and principles that investment professionals around the world find important and integral to global practice.
- Sustainable Finance - Become a financial expert with a heart for the environment and society. You will learn how sustainability issues change the concept of finance.
- Finance: Data Science - Become a finance professional who works on the threshold between finance and data science.
- The program is taught by teachers with very good teaching evaluations. The teachers are some of the world's leading finance academics. Many teachers in the program have been awarded Excellent Teacher awards.
- The Master's program in Finance is CFA accredited and is ranked in the Global Masters in Finance Ranking by the Financial Times.
Typical courses are:
- Investment Analysis
- Advanced Corporate Finance
- Empirical Methods in Finances
- ECTS transcript – If you are still completing your Bachelor’s degree, upload an ECTS transcript showing the subjects you have studied, your grades, and the number of credits awarded. Your Bachelor’s diploma must be uploaded later, as soon as you receive it.
- Bachelor’s diploma – If you have already graduated, upload your Bachelor’s diploma. A separate ECTS transcript is not required.
Note: Your Bachelor’s degree must be in the same or a related field as the Master’s programme you are applying for. The university will check whether you have completed enough relevant subjects and ECTS credits.
Important! View the full requirements on the university’s official website. Requirements may vary depending where you completed your bachelor education.
Applicants have to prove their English language skills either by an internationally recognized language test or upon previous studies. Usually English language skills can be proved by the following documents:
- TOEFL iBT*
- IELTS Academic
- A Cambridge English qualification
- Higher education degree completed in English
- Secondary education completed in English in a country or school qualification accepted by the university
- An English subject and grade on your secondary school leaving certificate that meet the university’s requirements
- Other
Important: Accepted methods and minimum results depend on study programme and the country where you completed your education. Check the official requirements for your chosen study programme.
*Use the Kastu promo code LTU1000102 when registering for TOEFL iBT and receive a 5% discount.
The Master's program in Finance equips you with a broad knowledge framework in business and specialized knowledge in financial management - a highly attractive profile for companies, banks and consultancy agencies.
Possible job positions after graduation:
Financial planner
Portfolio Manager
Risk Manager
Investment adviser
Treasurer
and eventually Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Facts & Figures
Average number of months until first paid job: 3
Job within 6 months after graduation: 86%
Is (very) satisfied with the Master's program: 87%
The gross monthly income of our graduates the first year: € 2.993
Where do our graduates work?
Alumni of the Master's program in Finance currently work for international companies, small domestic firms, and large Dutch and international banks. Others work in financial consulting or for venture capitalists, non-profit organizations, insurance companies, investment funds, pension funds, and the Dutch government including the financial authority (AFM) and the Ministry of Finance. Examples of positions attained by our graduates include that of:
Associate Debt Solutions at ABN AMRO
Financial Controller at Achmea Holding
Corporate Finance Assosiate at Deloitte
Senior Advisor at Ernst & Young
Financial Advisor at Fujifilm Manufacturing Europe
Project Manager procurement transformation at Heineken
Manager Performance Measurement & Reporting at ING Bank
Management Consultant at KPMG
Stock Accountant at Mars
Financial Management Trainee at Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Business Controller at Philips Consumer Lifestyle
Financial Trainee at PricewaterhouseCoopers
Finance Specialist at Rabobank International
Credit Analyst at Rabobank Nederland
Financial Trainee at SNS REAAL
