Finance is a two-year master’s programme offered by the accredited Oulu Business School focusing on the core areas of finance, investment management, and corporate financial management.

Studying at the Oulu Business School is a genuinely multicultural experience, as international degree students, exchange students from all over the world, and of course Finnish students are attending the courses of the Finance programme. Students in the programme can also join an exchange programme with another business school.

Top reasons to study Finance:

• Students can widen their Finance degree with studies in Economics or Accounting, and other courses offered by the Oulu Business School.
• Get in-depth understanding of finance theory and financial markets.
• Opportunity for exchange studies abroad - you may choose from several exchange programmes and hundreds of business schools.
• An internationally comparable degree in Economics and Business Administration from an AACSB accredited business school, that enables you to apply for work within the EU and globally.
• Students will get a diversified perspective on current issues from own professors, guest professors from other business schools worldwide and high-profile businesspeople.

Career opportunities:

Students also gain special insight into investor behavior. Finance research at the Oulu Business School focuses on individual investors’ actions in the financial markets. The research utilizes large empirical datasets covering individuals’ securities transactions.

A rapidly rising phenomenon is social and environmental responsibility as a factor in investor behavior, as investors want to fund initiatives and projects that take on global challenges like climate change. 

The programme gives students the abilities and knowledge to pursue their academic careers further, if they so choose. Whether students aim at pursuing an academic career or working in the industry after finishing their studies, they will be well-prepared for both options.

Occupational profiles of the graduates: Asset Manager, Financial / Market Analyst, Investment Banker, Corporate Financial Manager.