Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

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Applied Data Science for Banking and Finance

Campus: Brescia

School: Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences | Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences


Intake: September 2025


Edition: 6


Language of instruction: English


Duration: 2 years


Degree awarded: Laurea magistrale in Applied data science for banking and finance


Total ECTS: 120

The MSc degree in Applied Data Science for Banking and Finance helps students build professional skills to tackle new challenges in innovation by drawing on knowledge from different areas.

To achieve this, the course is organised around three main areas of knowledge:

  • Technical-scientific area: This focuses on building skills in computer science and learning tools for analysing data with statistics.
  • Corporate-management area: This part helps students develop analytical skills that are useful in a business setting. 
  • Financial-economics area: This area teaches students to conduct specialised analysis relevant to the banking and finance sectors.
     

97%

of graduating students say they were satisfied with their programme

87,9%

would enrol again on a degree programme at Università Cattolica

100%

are employed within a year after graduation

Source:

The satisfaction of those who have completed the degree programme refers to the Graduating Students' Survey of the calendar year 2023.

The percentages relating to employment opportunities refer to graduates of 2022 (if 1 year after graduation), 2020 (if 3 years after graduation) and 2018 (if 5 years after graduation).