MSc INTERNATIONAL

FINANCE
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MASTER IN FINANCE
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99
NATIONALITIES ON CAMPUS

52.300
ALUMNI
IN 132 COUNTRIES

340
ACRE WOODED
CAMPUS

HEC Paris is a world-leading business school, renowned for the quality of its degrees,
faculty, and research. For more than a century, our history of academic excellence and
selectivity has enabled us to train innovative and responsible leaders, capable of meeting
and inspiring the numerous challenges of our ever-evolving world.
 10 8
MONTH CERTIFICATES
PROGRAM

100% MSc INTERNATIONAL 2€

IN ENGLISH TRACKS:
FINANCE ACCELERATED/BUSINESS

90 1
ECTS CREDITS STUDY TRIP
 ORIGIN OF MSC INTERNATIONAL FINANCE STUDENTS

MSc International Finance student background:

40%
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION,
25% MANAGEMENT
ECONOMICS
102
STUDENTS

5%
OTHER

30%
AVERAGE AGE:
ENGINEERING
23
(21-29)

Former University location of MSc International Finance students:

90%
INTERNATIONAL 70%
STUDENTS EUROPE
(33 nationalities) 16%
10% ASIA, PACIFIC
AMERICA

4%
710
REST OF
MEDIAN
THE WORLD
GMAT

MIF CLASS PROFILE

September January June

BUSINESS TRACK PROFESSIONAL

or ACCELERATED TRACK ELECTIVE COURSES CERTIFICATE EXPERIENCE
CORE COURSES AND ADVANCED CORE COURSES
STUDY TRIP
TRAINING CLASSES

OPTIONAL DOUBLE DEGREE

JOB MARKET

BANK PRESENTATIONS | MEETINGS WITH ALUMNI | NETWORKING EVENTS | FINANCIAL CAREER FAIRS...
with Tsinghua University

PROFESSIONAL THESIS

THE N°1 GATEWAY TO A SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN FINANCE

Students on the MSc International
Finance have the choice between:
 the Business track: designed for
CORE COURSES   apital markets specialization
C  Corporate restructuring: ●  tochastic processes
S   redit risk & turnaround of
C
 Soft skills seminar courses: ● Mergers & acquisitions ● Modeling techniques for financial distressed companies
 Ethics seminar ● Asset pricing theory ● LBO structuring and modelling in engineering  Économie et Gestion Bancaires

● Financial engineering practice ● FX derivatives trading

(2)
students with a background in  Probability and statistics refresher (taught in french)
finance and accounting  Corporate Finance theory
(2) ● Quantitative asset management ● Real options ● Origination of structured   nergy and finance
E
 the Accelerated track: designed  Corporate valuation
(2)  Corporate finance specialization ● Private equity products  Energy markets
for students with a background  Securities markets cources: ● Value / distressed investing  Capital markets:  Financements structurés (taught in

in a quantitative field such as  Financial statement analysis

(2) ● Financial modeling  Corporate strategy: ● Financial engineering & french)
mathematics, engineering, physics,  Introduction to finance
(1) ● Corporate restructuring ● Macroeconomics of crises derivative products   inancial modeling
F
● Derivatives economies ● Bond portfolio management Infrastructure and real assets
(2)
and econometrics.  Corporate finance
(1) 

 Financial accounting and reporting

According to their choice, students
will have access to a specific range of
core and elective courses. While the
first semester is dedicated to Core and
Advanced Core courses, the second
semester allows students to choose
not only from a Concentration of
electives but also from a wide variety
of free electives.
(1) Accelerated Track only
(2) Business Track only
(1) ● Corporate strategy & financial ● Sustainable & responsible  Legal and contractual aspects of
CONCENTRATION ELECTIVES
 International macroeconomics
(1) institutions investment corporate finance
 Corporate investment & financing
 Empirical methods in finance ● Behavioral strategy ● Alternative investments  Real estate foundations
policy:
 Asset management
(2) ● Financial dimensions of strategic ● Ethics: Financial analysts and  Topics in valuation
● Advanced financial accounting decisions portfolio managers  Numerical analysis
● Financing decisions of firms
ADVANCED CORE COURSES ● International expansion  Quantitative asset management
● Financial solutions for corporates FREE ELECTIVES
 International finance
(2) strategies  Financial dimension of strategic
● Equity capital markets Business taxation
 Financial engineering: decisions

 Financial regulation
● Entrepreneurial finance  Credit crisis: Historical and
 Fixed income and MM ● Advanced Asset Pricing  Financing decisions of the firms
technical analysis

MIF SPECIFIC CAREER EVENTS 8 CERTIFICATES TO ENHANCE YOUR EXPERTISE

The program puts a strong emphasis on graduate placement. It provides a variety of workshops and events with Sponsored by companies, Certificates are a set of interdisciplinary courses that include 100 contact hours and a wide
multinational companies, including a study trip in London, designed to increase networking and job opportunities. range of fieldwork.

LONDON STUDY TRIP JOB MARKET TRAINING CLASSES ENERGY AND EXCELLENCE IN CLIENT DIGITAL LUXURY
FINANCE EXPERIENCE TRANSFORMATION
BANK PRESENTATIONS ON CAMPUS DATABASE OF 1,800+ INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
MERGERS AND SOCIAL DIGITAL LEADERSHIP
FILMED MOCK INTERVIEWS THE FINANCE EVENT (September) ACQUISITIONS BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP
THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FORUM (October)
 99%
FOUND EMPLOYMENT
WITHIN 3 MONTHS
63%
WORK OUTSIDE
THEIR HOME COUNTRY*

AVERAGE
STARTING SALARY:
68K€
KEY PLACEMENT DATA
Post-MSc International Finance functions:

22% AVERAGE
10% SALARY AFTER
CONSULTANT ASSET MANAGEMENT 3 YEARS:
88K€
6%
20% OTHER
FINANCIAL
MARKETS

42%
CORPORATE FINANCE Post-MSc International Finance job sectors:

FINANCIAL SERVICES 73%

CONSULTING 18%

OTHER 9%

*Post MIF job location: America 6%; Asia 6%; Europe 85% (France 16%; United Kingdom 37%; other European countries 32%);
Middle East 3%.
Source: Graduation Survey 2017

MIF CAREER PATHS

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