Studies
Master's Program in Finance
Finance offers high quality teaching that is directly applicable both to strategic decisions (e.g. mergers and acquisitions) and to day-to-day management of the firm (e.g. portfolio and risk management). The emphasis of the courses is on exercises and cases.
Areas of concentration
The Master’s Program in Finance has two areas of concentration to choose from:
1) Corporate finance
Students focus on such questions as analyzing and choosing investment projects, mergers and acquisitions, agency theory, investment banking and obtaining funds from the primary markets, project and trade finance, and capital structure and dividend policy decisions.
Suggested minor studies: Accounting or Business Law
2) Financial markets
Students focus on issues such as the behavior and determinants of security prices, their implications on portfolio management, behavioral finance and investor psychology, venture capital, risk management, as well as using and pricing options, futures, and other derivatives.
Suggested minor studies: Economics or Quantitative Methods of Economics
Skills required
All prospective Finance students should have reasonable analytical skills and be comfortable with numbers. Computer literacy – a good knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software, as well as statistical packages such as SAS – is a must. A fluent command of English is necessary both for your studies and job market entry. Fluency in Swedish may also be a plus.
The combined duration of studies for Finance BSc and MSc programs from 1993 to 2008, years