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
Na studia magisterskie mogą kandydować wszyscy, którzy ukończyli studia licencjackie lub inżynierskie (studia I stopnia), studia magisterskie lub studiują na ostatnim roku studiów I-stopnia. Studia, które planujesz powinny mieć zbliżony profil do tych obecnych lub ukończonych, ponieważ w procesie rekrutacji kluczowa jest ich zgodność programowa.
- Wykaz punktów ECTS – osoby, które są jeszcze w trakcie studiów, muszą załączyć wypis punktów ECTS, w którym będzie wykazane, jakie przedmioty były realizowane na studiach oraz ile punktów za nie otrzymano.
- Dyplom ukończenia studiów licencjackich lub inżynierskich – jeśli jesteś absolwentem wyższej uczelni, nie potrzebujesz wypisu, wystarczy załączyć dyplom ukończenia studiów wraz z suplementem (w języku angielskim lub oryginał z tłumaczeniem)
- Uwaga! Każdy kierunek magisterski może mieć inne wymagania i wymagać specyficznych dodatkowych dokumentów. Przed aplikacją sprawdź na stronie uczelni, jakich dokumentów potrzebujesz!
Spełnienie wymagań w zakresie języka angielskiego można udokumentować w następujący sposób:
- IELTS – 6.5
- TOEFL – 90
You need a solid basis in the following areas:
- Mathematics and Statistics (24 ECTS)
- Academic Training (24 ECTS)
- Economics (18 ECTS)
- Management or Marketing (12 ECTS)
- Accounting (12 ECTS)
- Finance (12 ECTS)
Applicants must pass a GMAT test. Exception applies to people who graduated from Vilnius University faculty of Economics (or Tilburg University's partner institution in other countries). The average GMAT score of accepted students at Tilburg University is 600. The GMAT institutional code for Tilburg University is VMV-LT-02.
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
