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Business Engineering: Financial Engineering

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Master On-Campus Full-time 2 September €11814 per year €7800 per year
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About Business Engineering: Financial Engineering, Master - at University of Antwerp

Do you have an interest in finance and business, as well as in statistics, mathematics and finance technology? Want to learn everything there is to know about finance, and then deep dive into your field of interest? If so, then you were meant to be a financial business engineer.

But what does that mean? In a nutshell: you are fully trained to engineer the financial future of business ideas by transforming financial theory into corporate practice, in an ethical and sustainable way.

Interdisciplinary programme

In this two-year English Master's programme (120 ECTS credits), you

  • gain a profound insight in the financial products used by corporates, banks, insurance companies, asset managers, ... - and
  • develop the skills to formulate, analyse and solve financial models within the complex environment of todays' organisations.

Build your future

Once you are graduated, you become a highly sought-after profile on the job market. Often, our final-year students sign a contract even before they graduated.

Over the past ten years, 95% of our students from our Dutch equivalent programme found a job within 6 months after graduation.

Rankings and accreditations

  • The faculty's AACSB, EQUIS and EFMD-programme accreditations illustrate our high-quality teaching.
  • The university scores really well in Young University Rankings, obtaining a 7th place in the Times Higher Education Young University Ranking 2022. On a global scale, the university ranks 131rd in the Times Higher Education 2023 and 280rd in QS World Ranking 2023.

This Master's programme spans the entire range of the financial spectrum, but at the same time you have a lot of freedom to choose specific fields you want to focus on. It is taught entirely in English and consists of:

    • a compulsory core (78 ECTS), containing business ethics, asset management, banking, an empirical finance lab, etc.,
    • electives (42 ECTS) in accounting, auditing, data science, economics, corporate finance, insurance, strategic management, ...
    • international exchanges, bootcamps and/or summer schools

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Entry requirements

Contact University of Antwerp to find course entry requirements.


Why study at University of Antwerp

- Experience excellent education

- Research-based teaching

- Study in a multicultural environment (more than 120 nationalities)

- Use state-of-the-art facilities (modern classrooms and labs)

- Live in the heart of Europe