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IE Business School Master in Finance ranked No. 4 worldwide by Financial Times

IE Business School holds the No. 4 position worldwide in the 2015 Financial Times Ranking of Masters in Finance. IE achieved this result in the pre-experience category with its full-time English-taught Master in Finance, aimed at young professionals with an international profile.

The student body of this year’s intake of IE’s Master in Finance comprises 84% international students who will complete the program at the end of this month to start work in companies that include JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Cinven Private Equity and Jefferies. IE’s Finance Master was the first program in Spain to be made a program partner of CFA (Chartered Financial Advisor), the leading international endorsement for financial analysts.

“IE Business School has been running finance management programs since 1977” says Ignacio de la Torre, Director of Masters in Finance Programs at IE Business School. “ We were the first to head programs focused on non-banking finance management, the first in Spain to be recognized as a program partner of CFA, the first to use a trading room as a teaching tool, and we were pioneers in the introduction of programs on Islamic finance and micro finance. Our highly demanding admissions process and the quality of the student body, combined with a broad academic offering and a top-tier faculty have played a key role in consolidating the position of our finance programs among the best in the world.”

The Master in Finance forms part of IE Business School’s Masters in Finance portfolio, along with the School’s Master in Advanced Finance, Executive Master in Financial Management, and the Global Master in Finance, a blended program with residential periods in Madrid and London.  The five programs offer a selection of 200 subjects in fields like non-banking funding, Islamic finance and microfinance. Students have access to a pool of more than 60 electives in fields like raw materials, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity. The methodology employed by IE’s Masters in Finance is eminently practical, employing management education tools like portfolio management simulation in real-time using the Bloomberg platform, Factset, and Matlab, a software program which analyzes fixed income.

Students can round off their learning experience in New York, visiting investment banks and hedge funds, holding meetings with financial executives, and gaining a deep insight into how Wall Street works. They also get the opportunity to take part in corporate social responsibility projects like the initiative based in Ghana run by NGO Financieros sin Fronteras, to gauge the impact of microfinance institutions on the eradication of poverty. In the field of research IE Business School enjoys agreements like that which links its Center for Islamic Finance with King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia.

The Financial Times ranking of Masters in Finance comprises the categories of pre-experience and post-experience programs. It is based on 18 criteria that include the percentage of students working on completion of the program, graduate salaries 3 years after graduation, the degree of internationalization of the school and its programs, the fulfillment of students’ expectations, the percentage of international faculty and students, the percentage of women faculty and students, the percentage of professors that hold doctorates, and research levels.

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