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First year

  • Advanced Financial Accounting - 5 ECTS
  • Advanced microeconomics - 5 ECTS
  • Applied econometrics - 8 ECTS
  • Applied statistics for finance - 6 ECTS
  • Corporate finance - 8 ECTS
  • Derivative securities pricing - 8 ECTS
  • Monetary economics - 6 ECTS
  • Principles of financial regulation - 10 ECTS
  • Quantitative methods for finance - 8 ECTS

Second year

  • Investment risk management - 4 ECTS
  • Market microstructure - 8 ECTS
  • Risk management - 8 ECTS
  • Foreign language (French, German, Spanish or Italian for international students) - 4 ECTS
  • Electives* - 12 ECTS
  • Final dissertation - 20 ECTS

*Elective courses list
  • Corporate governance and social responsibility - I part -  4 ECTS
  • EU risk governance regulation - 5 ECTS
  • International corporate finance -  8 ECTS
  • International financial markets - 4 ECTS
  • Project management - 8 ECTS
  • Real estate finance - 4 ECTS
  • Stage/Internship - 8 ECTS

 

Graduates from the program will gain both the technical knowledge and the methodological tools suited to pursue professional and managerial careers in banks, asset management companies, securities firms, large corporations (particularly in the Treasury and Finance departments), and regulators.

Professional consulting positions in all areas of banking and finance nationally and internationally are of course another option too.

The degree program in Banking and Finance offers its students the possibility of obtaining a double qualification at the conclusion of their study path:
  
  • M.Sc. degree in Banking and Finance (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and Diploma in Accounting and Finance (London School of Economics, UK)
  • M.Sc. degree in Banking and Finance (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and M.Sc. in Mathematical finance or MSc in Economics (UNC Charlotte, USA)
  • M.Sc. degree in Banking and finance (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and M.Sc. in Global finance (Fordham University, USA)
  • M.Sc. degree in Banking and finance (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and MSc in Banking and International finance (BIF) or M.Sc. in Corporate Finance (MF) or M.Sc. in Finance (Bayes Business School, UK)
  • M.Sc. degree in Banking and finance (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and M.Sc. in Finance (HSE-Saint-Petersburg, RUS)
  • M.Sc. degree in Banking and finance (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) M.Sc. in International Financial Management (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
The calendar for the academic year 2024/25 will be available in July 2024. 

For reference: find here the calendar of the Faculty of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences for the a.y. 2023/24. 

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”).

Students are required to attend theology teachings aimed at offering a reasoned and critical knowledge of the Christian message.