Degree awarded
Master of Science (MSc) in Finance with 3 specific orientations: "Asset and risk management", "Corporate finance", "Financial entrepreneurship and data science"
Master of Science (MSc) in Finance with 3 specific orientations: "Asset and risk management", "Corporate finance", "Financial entrepreneurship and data science"
Professor Michael Rockinger, Director of the Master in Finance (MScF)
The Master’s in Finance offers three options:
The programme adapts constantly to the needs of businesses and financial institutions, as well as students’ areas of interest. As a result, new courses are added to the Master’s in Finance on a regular basis, along with new professors and experts. The three options were created more recently, for the start of the 2017 academic year, to allow students to specialise in a particular field while continuing to acquire general skills.
The Master’s in Finance is one of the best finance programmes in the world, notably according to the Financial Times ranking.
The programme is taught by professors who mainly hold PhDs from leading European or American universities. Some are members of the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI). They are actively involved in research and maintain close contacts with the world of finance.
The quality of the programme has also been recognised by the CFA, CAIA and GARP, of which the Master’s in Finance is a partner. The Master's courses covers a very significant proportion of the curriculum required for these organisations’ prestigious certifications, offering students an excellent grounding and access to grants as part of the partnership with the CFA. HEC Lausanne was the first university partner in the world to secure a partnership with all three organisations.
Students on the Master’s in Finance regularly perform well in the CFA Institute Research Challenge and even won the global final in 2018. In 2019, the HEC Lausanne team participated in the world final in New York after winning the Swiss final and then the EMEA final.