Master 1 Finance

The Master's in Finance trains high-level financial executives for companies, banks, financial institutions, insurance companies and research organisations. The programme strives for excellence through the quality of the courses offered, the diversity of the professions covered, its international outlook and the importance attached to research.

The main objective of the programme is to provide advanced courses in corporate and market finance, enabling students to master the financial system, its overall operation and its products, as well as national and international regulations in an increasingly complex environment.

• By the end of the first year, students will have acquired a global view of the complex, cross-disciplinary problems facing financial institutions and establishments, or which drive the major financial decisions that determine the creation of value for stakeholders. They will be able to handle the quantitative tools needed in finance and will have a solid knowledge of micro- and macro-economics. Particular attention is paid to fostering a responsible approach to finance and to sustainable finance. 

• The second year of the Master's programme enables students to acquire a high degree of specialisation in five distinct career orientations, each corresponding to specific professions. 

Another aim of the programme is to encourage international mobility through several international exchange agreements.

Le master Finance se décline en cinq parcours-types de M2 qui apportent une spécialisation en :

• Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering,
• Wealth Management,
• Financial Modelling (this track is open to students registered in the programme Magistère ingénieur économiste),
• Financial Risks and Sustainable Finance (this track is open to students registered in the programme Magistère ingénieur économiste),
• Research (this track is open to students registered in the programme Magistère ingénieur économiste).

Whatever the M2 track, graduates must acquire a capacity for initiative and autonomous decision-making that makes them suitable for positions of responsibility in administrative and financial departments, in banking, investment banking and private banking, in insurance companies, as well as in management companies, investment funds and services and financial consultancy firms.

This master is co-organised with the engineering school Centrale Méditerranée.

Who can apply?

Students can access this master’s from the Faculty of Economics and Management of Aix-Marseille University (Economics-Finance, MCF, EMFO, IPBE and ME courses) as well as from other French and foreign universities. The master's is also open to students who wish to specialise in finance and who have followed specific management courses, both from our own university and from other institutions: AES, Management, Economics, Law, bachelor’s degree in management, etc.

How do I apply?

First-year entry is recommended but it is possible to enter the programme in the second year (M2). All students must submit an application which will be examined by the pedagogical commission of the Faculty of Economics and Management. Apply during the admission period on the dedicated platform. For more details on the procedure to follow, please consult the faculty's website.

Apply at the time of admissions on the dedicated platform.

REGISTRATION

• Initial training

• Continuing education

• Apprenticeship or professionalisation contracts (work-study program)

INTERNSHIPS AND SUPERVISED PROJECTS

Second-year students are required to complete a long-term work placement, for which a report is written. In the first year, students have the opportunity to complete an internship at the end of the academic year. Supervised projects are offered in some M1 and M2 courses, as well as a final year project common to all courses. 

STUDIES ABROAD
The Master's in Finance is also open to international students, with 4 double diplomas (from HEC-Liège and Louvain-la-Neuve Universities in Belgium, Ca'Foscari University in Venice and Tubingen University in Germany). Students are selected at the end of L3, with mobility to the partner in M1 and to the Faculty of Economics and Management in the M2 Finance Financial Risk Management course.  

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Les parcours "Gestion de Patrimoine" et "Risques Financiers et Finance Durable" peuvent se faire en double diplôme avec le DESU Gestion d’Actifs et de Fortune,  ce qui ouvre aux certifications professionnelles :
- au niveau national : AMF
- au niveau international : CEFA (Certification européenne d’analyste financier), CIIA (Certified International Investment Analyst) et CIWM (Certified Investment in Wealth Management) en partenariat avec la SFAF  (Société Française d’Analyse Financière).