Master of Science in Finance
The Master of Science aims at developing the interdisciplinary and sophisticated competencies and the skills that are required to successfully work as finance specialists and financial institutions’ managers or consultants. To have an above average competence in a number of different areas is an important advantage and also helps a finance specialist to maintain more flexibility in his or her career path that could develop in a number of different finance related companies.
The Master of Science in Finance offers all the key competencies in all the different areas of finance,This exposure to all key areas rather than to a subset only is crucial to enable students to become competent, flexible and able to interact with colleagues from different divisions and backgrounds in their future professional career. It also offers the choice of a wide number of specialized elective courses that can be chosen according to the desired career path and personal interests.
Its curriculum is designed in order to provide an optimal balance between theory and its practical application in the industry. This is proved not only by the success of Finance students with top recruiters, but also by the fact that the M.Sc. in Finance has been one of the first five graduate degrees worlwide to be recognized by the CFA Institute, the most important association of investment professionals (especially security analysts, money managers and investment advisers) as a CFA Program Partner. This implies that that the CFA Institute has recognized that the curriculum of the M.Sc. in Finance at Bocconi covered at least 70% of the body of knowledge required for the CFA Level III Exam, which represents the most important professional certification for any investment professional.
Learning Objectives
Develop interdisciplinary competencies in all the key areas of finance, since a wider set of competencies may represent a strategic advantage for the individual in the job market, making it easier to interact with colleagues in any kind of teamwork and granting greater flexibility in future career paths.
Develop even more sophisticated technical competencies through second-year elective courses in those areas that fit the personal interest and the target job market of the individual candidate. Develop the personal skills (e.g. teamworking, analytical and logical ability, efficient time management) that are required to successfully work in the field of finance, and that can be developed also by working with other talented peers that have passed a tough selection to be admitted to the M.Sc. in Finance.
International Opportunities
MSc in Finance students can profit from the international opportunities offered to all Bocconi graduate students, and in particular from:
Double Degree programs:
One-semester exchange programs in other partner universities all over the world;
internships abroad proposed by the International Relations Service.
Double Degree programs offer the opportunity to a limited number of students to spend one full academic year in Italy and one abroad obtaining both the Bocconi Master of Science and the graduate degree from the foreign partner university where the other year was spent.
Career Opportunities
Main career opportunities offered by the course are:- manager in banks, insurance companies, other financial institutions
- corporate finance/investment banking analyst in investment banks or other financial institutions
- equity and debt analyst/ financial economist
- trader/sales/structurer in equities, fixed income, currencies, derivatives
- asset manager
- private banker / sales to institutional clients
- risk manager
- consultant in either corporate finance advisory or financial institutions’ divisions of large consulting companies.
