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Each course syllabus is available here.
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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
  • Seminar on theological issues (in Y1 or Y2)

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 MSc degree in Banking and Finance offers its students the possibility of obtaining a double qualification at the conclusion of their study path:
  
  • M.Sc. in Banking and Finance (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and M.Sc. in Mathematical Finance or MSc in Economics (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
  • M.Sc. in Banking and Finance (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and M.Sc. in Global Finance (Fordham University, USA)
  • M.Sc. 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. in Banking and Finance (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and M.Sc. in International Financial Management (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Start date and academic calendar for the a.y. 2025/26 will be available in July 2025. For reference:
Classes for the academic year 2024/25 started on September 9th, 2024.


Find here the calendar of the Faculty of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences for the a.y. 2024/25. 

SELDA (Servizio Linguistico di Ateneo) organizes fee-paying Italian language courses. For more information contact SELDA from the dedicated iCatt function (in the homepage, box “request for information”), or send an email to selda.lingueper@unicatt.
Students are required to attend theology teachings aimed at offering a reasoned and critical knowledge of the Christian message.