Finance - AI and Data Science Tilburg University

Overview

 The Finance -  AI and Data Science track of MSc Finance prepares you for a career as a financial data scientist who not only knows about collecting, mining, and making sense of data, but is also an industry expert with in-depth financial knowledge.

The program prepares you to excel in the dynamic and data-driven finance industry by combining advanced data analytics techniques with specialized financial expertise.

• Gain in-depth knowledge of the financial domain and get familiar with the latest more specialized data analysis techniques.
• Develop your skills to structure sheer amounts of information that is collected by de finance industry in such a way that conducting analysis is possible and can be interpreted in a sensible way. This is a challenge in all subfields of finance, for example Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments, Trading and Banking and it typically requires much greater skills than a standard data analyst.

• The program is taught by Tilburg University   teachers with very good teaching evaluations. The teachers are some of the world's leading finance academics. Many teachers in the program have been awarded Excellent Teacher awards.

Career prospects 

As a Master of Science in Finance you are equipped with a profound knowledge framework in business and specialized knowledge in financial management or investment analysis. The AI and Data Science track educates future finance professionals who work on the threshold between finance, AI and data science. Rather than simply collecting, mining, and making sense of data (like data analysts) financial data scientists are industry experts with specialist, in-depth financial domain knowledge. The areas they work in are for example risk management, (algorithmic) trading and investing and mergers & acquisitions guidance.

Some examples of jobs you can expect:

• Financial Data Scientist  
• Risk Manager
• Financial Consultant