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Analyze data and work close to leaders! The program is interdisciplinary and collaborates with businesses and organizations to develop your ability to solve real problems through appropriate economic models and methods.

Deepen your knowledge of financial markets and financial analysis in a unique environment.

The Master in Financial Engineering is deisgned to prepare students for a challenging and successful career in the international world of finance. You will see finance from advanced quantitative perspectives, including management of financial portfolios and risk analysis in financial markets.

In a globalized world, economists are needed to analyze and come to conclusions on economic conditions in a society in constant change. This Master programme in economics provides you with the tools you need to work with economic policy challenges.

This program will suit anyone who is interested in mathematics and wants to apply his or her skills to problem-solving and for creating new mathematical models. It also gives you the possibility to start an academic career. In Mathematical Statistics and Financial Mathematics, you study courses in mathematics but you also train stochastic thinking and statistic skills. It contains courses in e.g. probability theory, stochastic analysis, insurance mathematics, and financial modeling.

The two-year program is composed of the two fields of logistics/supply chain management and management accounting, a combination that is unique of its kind. One common theme in the program is to find and create efficiency within supply chains together with supplier networks, in order to fulfill those demands of value creation for the end customer that a competitive market imposes.

In this double degree programme, you spend the first year at either Universidad Carlos III de Madrid or the University of Groningen. The programme trains the next generation of analysts, researchers and professionals in the field of development and growth. It combines the expertise of three highly ranked European universities into a common platform with leading scholars in economics, economic history and demography. A hallmark of the programme is the emphasis on the personal contact between professors and students, achieved by small classes. You will, in close supervision of a highly qualified faculty member, complete two independent research projects (theses) both at the end of year 1 and year 2 of the programme.

With a unique combination of perspectives from political science, social work, sociology and economics, this programme provides you with a broad range of knowledge and skills intended for the management and administration of welfare services. The courses are based on a comparative approach, highlighting differences and similarities across countries, administrative levels and policy areas, including a European Union perspective. In addition to being active researchers in their own field of expertise, our teachers have undergone educational training and make use of modern teaching and assessment techniques. We also bring practitioners into our courses and make visits to different types of agencies involved in the production of welfare services.

The Master’s programme in Mathematical Statistics provides a broad spectrum of tools and methods for handling random phenomena occurring in scientific as well as industrial contexts. Within the programme, you can specialise in many different areas such as the modelling of economical, biological and environmental data. You study at least 45 credits in mathematical statistics at the Master’s level and write a Master’s thesis of 30 credits. The remaining (at most 45) credits can be used in additional mathematical statistics courses or, for example, mathematics or numerical analysis, as well as in other subjects, for example, computer science, economics, molecular biology and bioinformatics.

This programme is ranked in the Financial Times’ prestigious ranking of the best Master’s in Finance in the world. This fast-paced programme extends your knowledge of all major areas of financial decision-making. You will gain a thorough understanding of, and training in, effective identification, analysis and resolution of complex financial problems. The programme is research-driven and based on the principle of academic rigour in practical application. You will learn advanced theoretical and empirical concepts in both financial economics and corporate finance. As an MSc Finance student, you have access to extensive data resources, including Bloomberg terminals.

The MSc in Economics brings you the quantitative skills and analytical mindset that are essential for a successful career in governmental organisations, international institutions and private sector firms such as banks and economic consultancies. The rigorous and research-based education will enable you to undertake advanced economic analysis by applying modern economic theory and state-of-the-art tools for handling data and conducting econometric analysis (using, for example, STATA and MATLAB). The programme offers a wide range of elective courses (60 credits in total), allowing you to specialise in your field of interest. You also have the opportunity to study one semester abroad at one of our international partner universities.

This programme is apt for students interested in careers across a wide range of organisations and sectors in the fields of business, consulting and finance. You will gain an advanced level of understanding of the theories and practices, and apply these skills in practical decision contexts. A strong emphasis is put on training your abilities to discerningly and critically apply your knowledge in decision situations, and you will meet challenging, team-based projects, cases and experiments. The programme structure is flexible in that much of the course work consists of elective courses. This allows you to design a preferred specialisation within the broader area of accounting and corporate finance.

The program puts an emphasis on problem-solving skills that can be applied in a wide variety of settings and offers an invaluable start to your career. By using modern economic analysis and quantitative empirical methods you will be given the tools to analyze complex real world problems in public policy making, as well as in private business and international organizations. 

The MSc program in Accounting, Valuation & Financial Management provides you with relevant accounting and financial management knowledge and qualifies you for a career as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Management Consultant, Investment Banker, Business Controller, Financial Analyst or Auditor (for example). Key topics include financial reporting principles, business control, capital budgeting, financial analysis and corporate valuation.

The master’s programme in Finance is designed to equip students with a strong foundation in analytical and empirical analysis, and to educate them more generally about the research process in finance and related disciplines. The valuation concepts and techniques taught to you have proven applicability even outside the traditional investment banking community. Courses in the programme aim to provide deeper knowledge and operational understanding of concepts and techniques, thereby enabling you to apply them to practical problems.