The importance of the virtuous circle

PROTAGONIST IN THE MAIN INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS, AND TODAY SIXTH IN THE WORLD ACCORDING TO THE FINANCIAL TIMES RANKING, THE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN FINANCE IS BASED ON THREE PILLARS: QUALITY OF THE STUDENTS SELECTED AT THE ENTRANCE; VALUE OF BOCCONI FACULTY AND SERVICES; PROFESSIONAL PROMINENCE OF THE ALUMNI COMMUNITY, AS EXPLAINED BY DIRECTOR CESARE CONTI

The Master of Science in Finance at Bocconi University has for years been in the top positions of the most prestigious international rankings. This result represents a flagship for the University as a whole and, as explained by director Cesare Conti, professor at the Department of Finance "derives from three main factors, which bind and feed each other creating a sort of virtuous circle. The first is the strict selection at for admission. The students who arrive in our classrooms are excellent and highly motivated, whether they come from Bocconi three-year programs or from other universities, Italian and international. The quality and motivation of the students contribute strongly to the creation of a stimulating learning environment. The second factor is represented by the "Bocconi team": on the one hand, the high-profile faculty, on the academic and operational/teaching levels; and on the other hand the staff, extremely effective in ensuring the best networking services. In particular, the career service facilitates the contacts for our students with the most prestigious recruiters in Italy and Europe. The third factor", continues Conti, "is constituted by the professional placement of our alumni, who often occupy top positions in the most prestigious financial institutions and who constitute an important reference for our students.”

A demanding program, at the end of which graduates will have acquired in-depth training and also a mind set and an aptitude for work particularly appreciated by recruiters. The program, explains the director, "provides in the first year a common path that serves to give solid foundations, including quantitative ones, suitable for successfully carrying out most of the tasks related to the areas of investment banking, financial consulting, asset management, market finance, alternative finance and quantitative finance. In the second year students can customize their path, opting for the track in investing banking and financial consulting, for that in asset management and quantitative finance or even for a free plan. The training course is completed by the development of personal skills, the possibility of accessing exchange and double degree programs and, finally, the offer of special professional internships, which project our girls and boys into the labor market."
Graduates of the Master of Science in Finance, says Cesare Conti, "have important career prospects as analysts (investment banking analyst, M&A analyst, business analyst, fixed income analyst, quantitative analyst, asset management analyst, trading, sales, ...) at banks, asset management funds and private equity funds, as well as in the finance area of large consulting firms or, again, in national and international supervisory and supervisory authorities."

And for many of them these prospects are realized abroad: "About 54% of our graduates find work outside Italy, particularly in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany. And, a constantly growing trend that we are pleased to point out, many of them are women."

by Davide Ripamonti