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Rankings for Masters in Finance

The US News and in 2011 - for the first time - also the Financial Times published a Ranking for the best Finance Masters.

More precisely, the FT published two rankings: One includes programs for people who just graduated (Pre-Experience Programms) and one includes Finance Masters for people with work experience in Finance (Post-Experience Programmes). In addition, the Financial Times also published a listing of Master in Finance programs.

The FT Master in Finance Ranking is based on surveys in 2011 among graduates from 2008. Similar to the Master in Management ranking, it applies a multitude of dimensions based on the feedback from universities and alumni, for example:

  • the difference between the salary before and three years after the program
  • how many graduates found an employer three months after the program
  • how international is the board
  • how international are the student cohorts and courses
  • etc.

FT Top Schools for the Master in Finance (Pre-Experience Ranking)

  1. HEC Paris
  2. IE Business School
  3. Essec Business School
  4. University of Oxford: Saïd
  5. Warwick Business School
  6. Grenoble Graduate School of Business
  7. ESCP Europe
  8. Imperial College Business School
  9. Skema
  10. EM Lyon Business School
  11. City University: Cass
  12. Universität St.Gallen
  13. HEC Lausanne
  14. Brandeis University
  15. Stockholm School of Economics
  16. Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
  17. Eada
  18. Cranfield School of Management
  19. Washington University: Olin
  20. Illinois Institute of Technology: Stuart
  21. Henley Business School
  22. Kozminski University
  23. University of Bath School of Management
  24. University of Strathclyde Business School
  25. University of Edinburgh Business School
  26. Tulane University: Freeman
  27. Lancaster University Management School
  28. Durham Business School
  29. Faculdade de Economia of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa
  30. University College Dublin: Smurfit

FT Top Schools for Master in Finance programs (Post-Experience Ranking)

  1. London Business School
  2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  3. University of Melbourne

Further Information on Master in Finance Programs

Background: Master in Finance

The Master in Finance is a so-called specialized Management Master. In contrast to the Master in Management and the Master of Business who are general management programs, Finance Masters provide you with in-depth knowledge in the specific areas of investment management, corporate finance, and financial analysis. Here are some statistics from our database:

  • About 30 percent of the Master in Finance programs (in our databse) require an undergraduate degree in business-related subjects. The other 70 percent are open for graduates from all disciplines.
  • About 70 percent of the programs (in our databse) are fulltime program while the rest can be studied part-time, for example on a weekly-track, online or through a module structure of residential periods.
  • About 65 percent of the programs (in our database) can be studied within one year. 27 percent can be studied in between one and two years, and only 8 percent take more than two years.

Graduates from Masters in Finance usually can expect excellent career options either in the corporate world, research institutions, the public sector, or non-profit organizations. Some finance programs also offer the opportunity to extend the Master in Finance to the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam. Programs such as the MSc in Finance at the University of Melbourne partner with the CFA Institute, the global association for investment professionals that awards the CFA® designation. The Melbourne Finance Master includes about 70% of the CFA knowledge in its curriculum and offers sample exams so that the students can prepare themselves for the CFA exams in addition to the Master degree.

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