The Finance Department offers a wide range of courses in the following Programs:
The ESSEC MBA Grande École
The department offers twenty courses in Finance to more than 2,000 students each year.
In particular, the Department offers:
• The Finance Track is open to students who wish to specialise themselves in the Finance area and have successfully completed a selection of courses. The Finance Track is a mark of distinction reflecting the quality of Finance education offered at ESSEC.
• The Private Equity Chair proposes specialized coursework on Private Equity that mix regular lectures, case studies, meetings with the industry’s top professionals, a research project, and a simulation game where students play the role of a PE fund bidding in an auction.
Advanced Master's in Financial Techniques and Insurance and Finance
• The MSTF-AF Masters program (in French) has been operating for more than 15 years. Over 14 months of coursework including an internship, about 50 students prepare their career in the financial industry. Graduating alumni take jobs not only in the Paris financial community but also in the major financial capitals of the world.
• ESSEC has launched a new Financial Engineering Asia track to train international students in the domains of risk management and financial engineering. This program is partially based in ESSEC’s Singapore campus, where students can benefit from the exciting developments in the Finance area taking place in Asia.
The Finance Track of the ESSEC MBA program and the Specialized Masters MSTF-AF are partners of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute.
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