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