Learning Objectives

The Master of Science in Finance has the following qualifying goals:

• Provide an advanced level of preparation in the areas of corporate finance, quantitative finance, management of financial institutions and investment banking, necessary to operate in the international context of corporate finance, financial markets and financial institutions;
• Develop the expertise to seamlessly blend company valuation and fundamental analysis with quantitative competences that include knowledge of the main software applications used in the financial sector, to operate as an expert in the domains of both investment banking and capital markets, as well as at their intersection, within prominent financial institutions;
• Provide knowledge in economic and legal disciplines, thereby cultivating the capability to analyze financial issues from an interdisciplinary perspective;
• Allow students to broaden/deepen their knowledge in specific areas such as:
  • M&A
  • venture capital and private banking
  • project financing
  • real estate
  • risk management
  • asset management
  • derivatives and digital assets
  • numerical methods for financial engineering
  • financial econometrics
  • machine learning techniques applied to finance
  • market microstructure
  • ESG and impact investment
  • monetary policy and financial regulation
  • behavioral finance
  • financial statement analysis. 
• Develop and widen the ability to apply knowledge through technology-based teaching and learning methodologies that encourage student interaction and engagement following a "learning by doing" approach (lab activities such as case studies, business games, trading simulations, computational group assignments and presentations). 
• Develop behavioral skills through “ad hoc” seminars and a diverse range of in/out of class activities related to courses, that promote the ability to communicate inclusively, interact with others, even in multicultural contexts, and tackle complex problems. 
• Promote fluency in English to work effectively and efficiently in different business contexts and cultivate competences in a second EU language (Italian for non-Italian native speakers); promote a broad-spectrum cultural education to foster critical thinking skills and delve into cutting-edge topics, such as AI applications in finance and ESG issues.