Class size
80 students, of whom 20 are international*
*”International”= A diploma awarded anywhere in the world with the exclusion of: Italian high school qualification (Maturità) | European Bac.
Curriculum
First year
- Management and accounting (10 ECTS)
- Microeconomics (10 ECTS)
- Foundations of private law (10 ECTS)
- Mathematics (10 ECTS)
- Financial intermediation (10 ECTS)
- Statistics (10 ECTS)
- Business English (4 ECTS)
- ICT (2 ECTS)
- Foreign language:
- French (4 ECTS)
- Spanish (4 ECTS)
- German (4 ECTS)
Second year
- Business law and financial regulation (10 ECTS)
- EU law for financial economists (5 ECTS)
- Macroeconomics (10 ECTS)
- Advanced statistics (5 ECTS)
- Quantitative methods for finance I (5 ECTS)
- Reporting and financial statement analysis (10 ECTS)
- Financial management (5 ECTS)
Third year
- Introduction to financial econometrics (5 ECTS)
- Derivatives (5 ECTS)
- Corporate finance (10 ECTS)
- Valuation and private equity (10 ECTS)
- International monetary economics (6 ECTS)
- Statistical methods for finance and insurance (6 ECTS)
- Three optional courses among the following: (15 ECTS)
- Digital business model innovation (5 ECTS)
- The R language and environment for statistical computing (5 ECTS)
- Taxation (5 ECTS)
- Corporate restructuring (5 ECTS)
- Final dissertation (3 ECTS)
Career opportunities
By undertaking their initial work placements or internships, graduates will gain the knowledge to move confidently into the national or international finance community. Possible careers: manager in a banking institution (banks, asset management companies, private equity companies); financial officer in industrial or commercial companies; financial analyst; financial advisor in a law firm.
Programme dates
Classes for the academic year 2024/25 will start on September 9th, 2024.
Programme dates and academic calendar for academic year 2024/25 will be published in the month of July.
For reference find here the calendar of the Faculty of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences for the academic year 2023/24.
A Welcome event is usually organized by the Faculty in the week prior to the beginning of the courses; confirmation and details will be available in early August.
Learning Italian
If you are looking for a flexible and autonomous solution to learn Italian while studying at Università Cattolica, you can access the self-learning linguistic lab (CAP) of the SeLdA (Servizio Linguistico d’Ateneo) and benefit from a personalized language advisory service.
In addition, SELDA organizes fee-paying Italian language courses, for more information contact SELDA from the dedicated iCatt function (in the homepage, box “request for information”).
Theology seminar
Students are required to attend theology teachings aimed at offering a reasoned and critical knowledge of the Christian message.