Finance and Risk Management University of Florence

Overview

The Finance and Risk Management program from University of Florence is a combination of economic theory for finance with quantitative methods (probability theory, statistics, numerical analysis and computational methods) to quantify and manage risk arising from financial, economic and insurance applications.

The MSc mix theory and practice, academic lectures and interaction with finance and insurance practitioners and empirical sessions.

In the first year, with the common track, you will acquire an in-depth grounding with core courses from corporate finance,  financial markets and institutions, financial accouning, quantitative and computational finance, quantitative risk management, financial economics and econometrics.

In the second year, you can deepen your knowledge and  tailor the degree to your goals both by taking one of the three offered tracks – corporate finance and banking, insurance and risk management, quantitative and AI methods for finance - and by moving forward one of the three Double Degrees opportunities.  

With the DD Msc Finance and Accounting with School of Economics in Varsaw you will deepen your knowledge in corporate finance and financial accountability, while the DD in  Quantitative Asset and Risk Management at the University of Economics in Katowice will provide you an in-depth knowledge of asset management and risk management. A perfect choice to build an international path in Economics and Finance, is the DD in Economics with the specialization International Financial Economics at the University of Konstanz, with this new excellent opportunity for your international career.

Careers Profile

Student will be prepared for high profile careers across a wide range of sectors:

• in financial institutions, insurance and reinsurance companies, banks, accounting firms, private equity firms, management consulting, data analytics companies, industry,  management, quantitative analysts in insurance companies and consultancy firms, as well as in academia.

Graduates should be able to work as specialists in quantitative-oriented areas of the financial services industry, such as trading, risk or asset management, or to work in specialized areas of an insurance company.

The students who complete the MSc in Finance and Risk Management are eligible to achieve professional status as an Actuary in Italy.