MSc in Financial Markets
Employability
77%
work outside France
Placement Report 2018
At a Glance
At a Glance
The MSc in Financial Markets is an advanced programme designed to give you in-depth know-how of the main concepts of finance related to stocks, bonds, derivatives and alternative investments as well as the analytical tools used in the industry.
If you have a quantitative background or prior training in finance and seek an international career in financial markets, this programme is for you. You will master how to structure, price and risk-manage financial instruments and learn the fundamentals of financial risk management.
With this degree in hand, you will be able to secure a career in market finance (sales, structuring and trading), in research, risk or portfolio management.
Language: English
Location: Nice Campus
Start Date: Early Sept-20
Deadline to apply: 30-Jun-20
GARP The Financial Risk Manager professional certification, a key differentiator in the job market!
- Master analytical and quantitative tools to price financial instruments
- Make use of numerical and programming tools
- Appreciate and design portfolio strategies or financial market products
- Perform skillful financial risk management though use of key principles and tools
- Frame ethical issues in finance and understand the need for strong professional standards
- Know the managerial skills that market demands and can assess one’s own competency level
PROGRAMME LENGTH
Sept – May: academic courses / June onwards: work experience
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PROGRAMME
♦ 1-year full-time programme taught in English
♦ +10 core courses, 2 Seminars, 2 concentrations, Data Science for Finance certificate
♦ Talent Identification & Career Development (TI&CD)
♦ 3-6 month internship / work placement
♦ Master Project
♦ French Classes
FIELDS
♦ Asset Pricing
♦ Fixed Income and Derivatives Products
♦ Portfolio Management
♦ Investment
♦ Trading
♦ Quantitative Techniques in Finance
ELECTIVES
♦ C++ for Finance
♦ Commodities
♦ Continuous-Time Finance
♦ Big Data Applications for Financial Markets
♦ Macroeconomy, Investments and Financial Markets
♦ Monetary Policy & Central Banks' Watching
3-6 MONTH INTERNSHIP
The personal and professional benefits of an internship are immense and long-lasting. Expanding your global contact network is no different. During your internships abroad you will develop valuable business relationships which will take your career goals to an international level. Many students find their jobs as a result of internships during their time at EDHEC.
MASTER PROJECT
The Master Project allows you to put acquired knowledge and skills into practice. If you prove your ability to perform high quality research, EDHEC faculty or members of its research centres may, working under their supervision, offer you the opportunity to deliver your Master Project in the form of applied research.
Female
Male
24
Average Age
4
Continents Represented
22-31
Age Range
Previous Academic Discipline
Key Figures
of jobs have an international dimension
Location
Europe (France 23%)
Asia - Pacific
Americas
Main Sectors
Selection Criteria for the 1st Job
Key Recruiters
- BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH
- BLACKROCK
- BNP PARIBAS
- DEUTSCHE BANK
- EDF TRADING
- GOLDMAN SACHS
- LAZARD FRERES
- LOMBARD ODIER DARIER HENTSCH
- PIMCO
- PWC
- SOCIETE GENERALE
- UBS
Academics
Academics
"The EDHEC Master in Financial Economics programmes have equal impact on skills and careers. They provide business relevant education for students who seek top-level positions within leading, global financial institutions. Thanks to their close ties with major financial industry players, the EDHEC-Risk Institute and Programme Corporate Partners, our programmes will help you become a leader in finance."
— Laurent DEVILLE, Director, Financial Economics Track
Our teaching methods are aimed to give you the core competencies necessary to compete in a complex and competitive business environment. You will learn to deepen your analytical thinking, develop practical skills, and design creative strategies for business success.
Our methodology includes:
♦ Core curriculum
- Embraces the latest technology
- Responds to trends in the market
- Co-developed with leading business partners
♦ Blended learning
- Tutorials
- Lectures
- Workshops
- Seminars
♦ Applied learning
- Business Games
- Case Studies
- Entrepreneurship Projects
♦ Personal performance coaching
- Interviewing strategies
- Teamwork development
- Intercultural communication skills
CERVELLON Marie-Cécile, PhD
Professor Marketing
CZELLAR Veronika, PhD
Professor Econometrics
DEMUIJNCK Geert, PhD
Professor - Head of Faculty Business Ethics, Philosophy
DEVILLE Laurent, PhD
Associate Professor Finance
FABOZZI Frank, PhD
Professor Finance
FASTERLING Björn, PhD
Professor - Head of Faculty (Law) Business Ethics, Law
FOULQUIER Philippe, PhD
Professor - Director of the EDHEC Financial Analysis and Accounting Research Centre - Academic Director of MSc Financial Management in European Apprenticeship Track
Accounting, Finance
HAGUET Daniel, PhD
Associate Professor Finance
LIOUI Abraham, PhD
Professor - Head of Faculty (Finance) - Director Ph.D. in Finance Program Finance
MARTELLINI Lionel, PhD
Professor - Director of EDHEC-Risk Institute - Senior Scientific Advisor ERI Scientific Beta Finance
MARS Marie-Catherine, PhD
Associate Professor - Coordinator for Marketing Courses, EDHEC BBA Marketing
O'KANE Dominic, PhD
Affiliate Professor Finance
PELGRIN Florian, PhD
Professor Economics
SISTO Michelle, PhD
Research Associate & Director - Global MBA
TESSAROMATIS Nikolaos, PhD
Professor Finance
UPPAL Raman, PhD
Professor Finance
VERRIEST Arnt, PhD
Associate Professor Accounting
VULANOVIC Milos, PhD
Professor Finance
STEPANYAN Gohar G., PhD
Associate Professor Finance
CALVET Laurent, PhD
Professor Finance
Adjunct Faculty & Adjunct Visiting Faculty
Sylvaine Chubert
Managing Director
SC Training & Consulting SARL
Michel Crouhy, PhD
Head of Research & Development
Natixis
Mélanie Delvaux, MBA
Assistant Manager, Cross Border Tax/M&A
Deloitte SA Luxembourg
Dan Galai, PhD
ABE Gray Professor of Business Administration
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Georges Hübner, PhD
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Gambit Financial Solutions
Georges Iatridis, PhD
Associate Professor of Accounting & Finance
University of Thessaly
François-Serge Lhabitant, PhD
CEO & CIO
Kedge Capital Fund Management Ltd
Sanjay Sharma, PhD
CRO, Global Arbitrage &Trading
RBC Capital Markets
This is an advanced course in modern Finance Theory. The purpose is to provide you with essential theoretical foundations for financial decision making. You will learn about asset pricing theory to discover how we measure risk and we measure risk reward. The course will also cover Equilibrium asset pricing and its relation to linear Arbitrage Asset Pricing theory.
This is a modern and rigorous econometrics course designed for students pursuing careers in, financial markets. You will learn how to handle and model the vast quantity and variety of data that streams from modern financial markets and how to make valid statistical inferences, reasonable conclusions, and useful forecasts from this data.
This course will deepen your understanding of how fixed-income markets work. The main focus is on the Government Bond Markets (nominal and inflation-protected), with a secondary emphasis on the LIBOR markets. You will learn about fixed-income principles and their relation to market features and products such as bond futures, the repo market, bond indices, the role of liquidity, and embedded options.
This course will familiarise you with the pricing and risk management of derivative securities. You will learn about the different types of Derivatives, beginning with vanilla call and put options and the more complex products such as swaptions, variance swaps and credit derivatives.
This course provides an overview of many concepts, techniques, and algorithms in machine learning with a special focus on financial applications. The course will start with topics such as classification and end up with more recent topics such as boosting, support vector machines, and Bayesian networks. In addition, you will learn to use the Python programming language, and the powerful Scikit-Learn library. The course will combine both theory and hands-on implementation.
This course introduces you to the fields of data visualizations. You will learn how to acquire parse and analyze large (financial) datasets using multivariate, temporal, text-based, hierarchical and network/graph-based data. In addition, you will use specialized softwares (R, Tableau, ggplot2) with a special focus on financial applications.
This course addresses the ethical challenges in finance, which includes financial markets, financial services, and financial management. It delivers helpful background knowledge for students to take the CFA exam.
The world is facing three main environmental, social and governance (ESG): the climate change, a worldwide health issue (obesity) and the demographic transition.These trends affect financial industry. Today, a significant number of companies are at risk regarding these ESG trends while some are well placed to benefit from them. As investors, the objective is to identify these companies. Upon completion of the socially responsible investing course, you will be able to analyse and assess ESG risks and/or opportunities for financial industry (banks, asset managers, insurers, retail banking...) and create a strategy, investment process, fund with an ESG profile (without technical details).
This course will enable you to become familiar with Python, a programming language that is increasingly used in financial markets, and how it can be used to quickly and efficiently construct finance-related applications.
Trading securities in markets involves explicit and implicit costs. In this course, you will learn where these costs come from, what are their determinants, how to estimate them and how they must be accounted for in the construction of efficient portfolios and the determination of optimal trading strategies.
Major in Asset Management
♦ Alternative investments
Characteristics of alternative investments from an asset allocation perspective (focus on hedge funds and commodity trading advisors); long/short equity strategies and other strategies; trades, main risks, and quantitative tools for alternative investment analysis.
♦Regulation and innovation in Asset management
Modern portfolio management; optimal asset allocation; portfolio construction; technical challenges; estimates of risk and expected returns; inclusion of alternative asset classes and investment styles; statistical benchmarks.
♦ Investment solutions
From investment products to investment solutions: benchmarks improvements, liability-driven strategies, risk-controlled and life-cycle investments.
♦ Efficient equity investing: advanced methods for active and passive money management
Detailed introduction to the modern approach to equity portfolio management.
♦ Private equity
Overview of the financing of the creation, development, growth, transmission and eventually restructuring of a company thanks to the private equity toolbox.
♦ Tactical asset allocation
Methodological foundations and tactical asset allocation strategies.
Major in Trading
♦ Banking and financial markets regulation
Focus on the requirements imposed to entities that are active in these fields such as asset managers, market makers, market operators, issuers and banking institutions.
♦ Treasury risk management
Study areas include the role and organization of treasury operations as well as practical challenges of measuring and managing currency and interest rate risks faced by banks and multinational corporations when investing or raising capital in foreign countries.
♦ Market risk measurement
Introduction to market risk: volatility, risk factors, and shortfalls. Managing and measuring risks of financial portfolios.
♦ Structured products
Structured products are investment vehicles combining vanilla and exotic derivatives to form sophisticated products on different assets classes: equities, currencies, commodities or interest rates.
♦ Trading in practice
Real trading situations in commodities, derivatives or other financial securities; sessions are conducted by professional traders in our trading room.
Intercultural Seminar
How to benefit from cultural diversity to solve business challenges, foster innovative thinking and improve team performance.
Programming for Finance with VBA and R
The seminar is designed to teach you how to leverage the advanced facilities of Excel that are commonly used in corporate finance/capital markets. It then introduces you to the use of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to create very robust and powerful spreadsheets.
Ethics and Finance
Because ethics plays a vital role in guiding the formation of law and regulation in areas not governed by law and regulation, this seminar addresses the ethical challenges in finance. It intends to raise your awareness of the relevance of ethical norms for professionals in finance. The Ethics and Finance seminar also delivers helpful background knowledge for people who prepare the CFA (Charted Financial Analyst) exam.
Preparing yourself for learning with cases
This seminar will enable you to understand the relevance of the case study methodology both in classwork and future recruitment scenarios. It teaches the theory and enables students to practice one or more case studies.
Remedial in Mathematics: Foundation of Mathematics for Finance
This seminar will bring you up to speed on elementary calculus and linear algebra for financial applications.
Career Center
Career Center
EDHEC Career Centre helps you to master your career plan.
A dedicated team organises numerous training and recruitment events, on- and off-campus, to prepare you for challenging international recruitment processes and to help you network with potential employers.
The EDHEC Career Centre is a one-stop-shop for career development. It offers an integrated career programme designed for you to define and achieve your career goals: the Talent Identification & Career Development (TI&CD) programme.
Fine-tune your career plan. The Career Centre helps you design your job-search strategy and assess your recent work experience and managerial competencies. The TI&CD programme, unique in Europe, evaluates and assesses your strengths and areas of improvement based on 8 managerial competencies defined by international recruiters. The TI&CD is a real career booster enabling EDHEC students to assess and hone their managerial competencies to be particularly efficient in their first job.
List of services Career Center provides:
- Individual career counselling (on campus, via phone, via skype) with internal and external counsellors
- Help to define career goals and search strategy
- CV and CL correction in English and French
- Career training and workshops (CV, CL, application forms, interview skills, networking, social media, personal branding, etc.)
- TI&CD
- Graduate Programmes
- On-campus events
- Off-campus events
- Website with plenty of career resources
- Placement reports
- The Teaching Factory concept
Every year EDHEC Career Centre organises a number of events throughout the year to give its students an opportunity to learn about job and internship opportunities offered by companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations where they might like to work with.
- 120 corporate events across campuses
- +110 companies at our Paris Career Fair
- 40 companies, of which 50% are international, at our Finance Career Days
- International Graduate Programme Day
- Industry-specific events: luxury, audit, marketing, etc.
- Explora Digital Certificate.
Learn more about the various events organised by the career centre department.
Programme Insights
Programme Insights
Ilia Shchupko, Russian - EDHEC-2019
Data Analyst in Global Data department at Bloomberg-London
Simone D’Angelo, Italian, EDHEC-2019
Investments & Wealth Management at Barclays UK-London
Norah K'habore, French/Ivorian/Burkinabe
Analyst, FICC Structuring, Goldman Sachs-Hong Kong
The Student Experience
News
- 05-08-2019
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- 17-07-2019
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- 12-07-2019
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Next Steps
Next Steps
- APPLICATION FEES: €100
- FEES: €24,900
- APPLICATION DEADLINE: 31 JULY 2020
► Please Note: Applications are received and evaluated on a rolling basis until 31st of July 2020.
FEES INCLUDE:
- Tuition fees
- Access to the EDHEC Career Centre with personal career coaching during your studies and for the duration of your professional life
- Access, as a matriculating student, to on-campus facilities (incubator, learning centre, sports facilities, etc.)
- Lifetime access to the EDHEC Alumni community
- Administrative fees
The MSc in Financial Markets degree is a level 7 qualification (BAC +5) jointly awarded by the French State which confers the Grade Master.
COVID-19: access our adapted admissions procedure
We are looking for intellectual talent with a history of achieving high-level goals.
♦ 4-year bachelor degree in a finance (or accounting) related field (or equivalent).
♦ GMAT ≥ 650 GRE or TAGE MAGE or CFA Level III or CAT* official test score report. (CAT* for Indian students only).
♦ Acceptable English proficiency tests/certificates (TOEFL, TOEIC or IELTS)
- TOEFL Internet-based ≥ 92
- TOEIC ≥ 850
- IELTS ≥ 6.5
- Cambridge Test of English > 175
► English native speakers or those holding a degree taught in English (minimum 3 years) are eligible for an English Test waiver.
Admission to the EDHEC Master programmes is highly selective. Normal entrance requirements include: a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) from an accredited school, college, or university; academic excellence; superior scholastic potential (certified by GMAT, GRE, Tage Mage or CAT scores); and English language proficiency. Admission decisions are made on the basis of your overall profile as reflected in the application pack.
Successful candidates come from a wide range of education backgrounds and experiences. They also display distinguished academic excellence, strong analytical skills, interpersonal competencies, international awareness, have proven motivation to undertake the programme, the capacity to make significant contributions to EDHEC Business School’s learning environment, and the potential to succeed as professionals, managers and leaders in the related field of study. The Selection Committee relies heavily on profiles, motivation letters, recommendation letters, and CVs.
The online service will enable you to apply for every Masters programme offered at EDHEC Business School - Master in Management (MiM) or Master of Science (MSc). Your application file will be processed by the Admissions Team and sent to the Selection Committee for appraisal. You will be informed by email of the evolution of your file including the final decision.
♦ If you are a new user, you must create your account / Sign up.
♦ If you already have an account (candidate EDHEC student), please jump directly to step 5 by clicking on the "Apply online" button. It means you are already in the system, so there is no need to "create your account".
♦ After creating your own account you will receive a validation e-mail. Click on the link provided in this mail to activate your account.
♦ You will then receive a confirmation containing your personal login and password.
♦ Once you register or if you already have a valid EDHEC account, access the online-application form and enter your login.
♦ To avoid losing your information during your application, please do not refresh the current page or go back to the previous one without saving your application first.
♦ Your application may be done in several stages. The information entered each time will not be lost.
♦ Before going to the tab "Payment", please check that you have not forgotten any element of your application file and that all the information is correct. Further modifications will not be possible after payment has been made.
♦ Application fees must be paid online.
♦ After validation, your application will reach to the final stage and no reimbursement will be possible, even in the event of your withdrawal.
♦ If you encounter any technical problems during the completion of your online application, please send an email to: Contact_iol@edhec.edu
♦ Important Note: Please use only ONE email address to submit your Online Application and to communicate with the Admissions team.
EDHEC offers various scholarships & financial aids based on merit and financial need of the student. The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs also offers a large number of grants and scholarships. Lastly, students accepted to EDHEC are entitled to apply for private loans to cover the cost of their tuition fees.
The EIFFEL Scholarship offers financial support to high-achieving international candidates. It awards about €1200 per month. The scholarship is financed and managed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development
Who can apply:
Any students under 30 years with an excellence profile:
- GMAT 650 or above (GRE accepted). Please note that it is not mandatory for programmes not requiring this GMAT test.
- Acceptable English proficiency tests/certificates (TOEFL, TOEIC or IELTS)
- TOEFL Internet-based ≥ 92
- TOEIC ≥ 850
- IELTS ≥ 6.5
- Cambridge Test of English > 175
- Excellent academic records (GPA)
- Strong motivation and clear objectives
- Awards, previous scholarships, achievements etc.
When is the deadline: Complete applications must be sent to EDHEC before 1st December
More information:
To note: EIFFEL and EDHEC scholarships cannot be combined.
EDHEC offers scholarships to support high-profile candidates based on the excellence of their academic profile, impressive experience and extracurricular activities. A request for financial aid must be made at the time of application via the Financial Aid & Scholarship Form.
- Excellence Scholarship: tuition reduction of 30%
- Distinction Scholarship: tuition reduction of 20%
- Foundation Scholarship: tuition reduction of 15%
Who can apply:
EDHEC scholarships are reserved for applicants with excellent profiles:
- High GMAT score
- Excellent GPA
- Impressive extracurricular activities/memberships
When is the deadline:
- Excellence Scholarship: before March 31st.
- Distinction Scholarship: before June 30th.
- Foundation Scholarship: before June 30th.
More information
for Indian Students
The Co-Financed Scholarship is a joint initiative of EDHEC Business School & Embassy of France in India. This scholarship is offered to two Indian students (2 scholarships of 50% for MiM Programmes) with an excellent academic background and clear career objectives.
Who can apply: Indian students who have been accepted into EDHEC's Master in Management programmes with high ranks from our selection committee.
When is the deadline: Students should complete their application file before 31st March and if accepted, must confirm their seats before 21st April.
More information
- Please contact EDHEC Country Manager for India, Nilesh Gaikwad at india.admissions@edhec.edu
for Russian Students
The Co-Financed Scholarship is a joint initiative of EDHEC Business School & Embassy of France in Russia. This scholarship is offered to the Russian citizens and to Russian students (1 scholarship of 100% for MSc programmes) graduated from Russian Universities with an excellent academic background, clear academic vison and career objectives.
Who can apply: Russian students who have been accepted with high ranks from our faculty in one of EDHEC’s 1-year MSc programmes.
When is the deadline: Students (applying for MSc programme) should complete their application file before 31st March and if accepted, must confirm their seats before 21st April.
More information
- Please contact EDHEC Admission Representative for Russia, Julia Dubina at julia.dubina@edhec.edu
French Embassies offer a number of scholarships which are available for excellent students from all over the world.
More information: Please contact the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in your country
Campus France is a French national agency for the promotion of higher education, international student services, and international mobility. Campus France manages CampusBourses, a grant search engine that is an essential tool for financing your education in France.
More information: CampusBourses: grant search engine
QS-EDHEC Scholarship is an exclusive scholarship to attendees of the QS World Grad School Tour. Scholarship value: 50% of tuition fees
Please follow this link to learn more about this scholarship.
ALBANIA
AUSTRIA
BELARUS
- Open Europe Scholarship Scheme programme by the European Union
- By the French Embassy in cooperation with the Belarus government
BOLIVIA
BULGARIA
- By L’Institut Français de Sofia in cooperation with the French Embassy
CANADA
- Ontario Student Assistance Programme
- Student Aid British Columbia: EDHEC School Code: QWDA
- International Scholarship Opportunities for Canadians
CHILE
- Becas Chile -Chilean governmental initiative (part of the Programa Formación de Capital Humano Avanzado): you must indicate EDHEC when submitting your application
CHINA
- Alexandre Yersin Excellence Scholarships (for Hong Kong & Macau students)
- By The China Scholarship Council (CSC) (affiliated with the Ministry of Education)
COLOMBIA
- Colfuturo (Fundacion para el Futuro de Colombia)
- Bourse de l'Ambassade de France en Colombie - Institut des Hautes Etudes pour le Développement (IHED)
CROATIA
CYPRUS
EGYPT
EL SALVADOR
ESTONIA
- Kristjan Jaak Scholarship programme by the Ministry of Education and Research and the Archimedes Foundation
- Bourses du Gouvernement français de l'Ambassade de France en Estonie
FINLAND
- By Liikesivistysrahasto - Foundation. Contact: asp@lsr.fi
FRANCE
- By Fongecif: EDHEC has particularly close ties with Société Generale, BNP Paribas, LCL and HSBC.
GEORGIA
GERMANY
- Apply to: Deutscher; Akademischer Austauschdienst e. V. (DAAD) Referat 312, Postfach 200 404, D-53134
- By EDHEC exclusively for e-fellows.net students and Master Day participants
- By BAföG (for MiM programmes)
GREECE
GUATEMALA
HONDURAS
HUNGARY
INDIA
INDONESIA
- By the French Embassy in Indonesia
- LPDP Scholarship - (full name Public Service Education Fund Management Institution)
IVORY COAST
JAPAN
KAZAKHSTAN
- https://www.culturefrance.kz/Bourses-du-gouvernement-francaise-et-autres-programmes?lang=r
- https://www.culturefrance.kz/MAKE-OUR-PLANET-GREAT-AGAIN-MASTER-KAZAKHSTAN-1330?lang=kk
LATVIA
MACEDONIA
MEXICO
- By Fundacion Mexicana Para La Educacion, La Tecnologia y La Cienca (FUNED)
- Bourse Banco de México – by FIDERH (Fondo para el desarrollo de Recursos Humanos)
MOLDOVA
NETHERLANDS
PAKISTAN
POLAND
ROMANIA
- By the French Embassy in Romania
- Nicolae Titulescu Scholarship programme by Romanian Government
RUSSIA
- By the French Embassy in Russia Scholarship
- French Learning Assistance Scholarship
- Changellenge Scholarship
SERBIA
SINGAPORE
- Financial Scholarship Programme (FSP) by MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore) the central bank of Singapore
SLOVAKIA
- National Scholarship Programme by Slovak Republik
- By the French Embassy in Slovakia
- By L’Institut Français de Ljubljana
SLOVENIA
- Javni sklad Republike Slovenije za razvoj kadrov in stipendije : Excellence scholarships
- Bourses d'excellence pour étudiants slovènes
SOUTH KOREA
SPAIN
- for the students from Galicia to Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza: Call at +34 91 563 07 99
- 'AVENIR' Scholarships by Institut francais in Spain
SWEDEN
- By Wallenberg Foundation for Education in International Industrial Management
- By the Swedish government
SWITZERLAND
TAIWAN
THAILAND
TURKEY
UNITED KINGDOM
UKRAINE
- WorldWideStudies by Victor Pinchuk Foundation
- Bourses du Gouvernement français de l'Ambassade de France en Ukraine
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Serge Bellanger Business Student Scholarship: application deadline March 31, 2020
- Fullbright U.S. student programme
- API Study Abroad Scholarships
- Rotary Foundation Scholarships
- By National Society of Hispanic MBAs (to legal permanent residents from the Hispanic origin)
VIETNAM
- Prodigy Finance is an innovative platform that offers loans to international postgraduate students attending top universities (not applicable to Master in Management students). More information
- Federal Direct Loans (FAFSA): only for American citizens. More information
- Graduate PLUS Loans: More information
The International Students Office (ISO) assists students to settle in smoothly in France by organising orientation events and multicultural seminars to welcome international students to EDHEC Campuses in Lille and Nice. The team guides students with administrative procedures before their arrival and during their stay and answers all questions about French systems (medical and home insurances, banks, resident permits, etc.).
Discover the International Students Office website
What are the deadlines to apply for the programmes?
- 30th June (In 2020, the deadline for the MSc programmes is extended to 31st July; the deadline for the MiM programmes remains on 30th June.)
Do you accept scanned documents?
- Yes, you can make scanned colour copies of the documents required.
Should the application file and the two recommendation letters be typed or written freehand?
- Recommendation letters: our templates can be used or written freehand.
Will the International Admissions’ team contact the referees to send the letters of recommendation?
- No, referees should email their letters of recommendation directly to international.admissions@edhec.edu using their professional email. Emails from personal accounts such as yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc. will not be accepted.
Will my referees receive an automatic confirmation when they send the letters by email?
- No, no automatic email will be sent to your referees. Please inform them that they should expect to receive an email confirmation later from the Admissions’ team.
- Please note that you will be copied to this email as well to acknowledge the good reception of the letters of recommendation.
Will I have an interview with the Programme Manager?
- There is no direct interview with the Programme Manager for students applying for our MIM or MSc programmes unless the Programme Director thinks it is necessary.
Can I apply for more than one programme?
- It is possible to apply for two programmes. A separate motivation letter is required for each programme.
- English proficiency test
- What are the expected scores?
- TOEFL =>95 (/120)
- TOEIC =>815 (/990)
- IELTS => 6.5 (/9.0)
- Cambridge Test of English => CPE
What is the EDHEC's institution code for the TOEFL?
- Code: 0663
Can I apply for a waiver?
- Waivers apply for native-English speakers and for those who have studied in English.
What is the difference between the MIM and MSc?
- The EDHEC Master in Management is a 2-year programme designed for students under 29 seeking to increase their general management skills. Also known as "Grande Ecole", the programme awards students a double degree: Year 1: Master in Management degree and Year 2: Master of Science degree
- Our MSc are specialised programmes accessible to students who wish to acquire new knowledge in a specific field or further strengthen their existing expertise.
Is there any help for students on campus regarding housing?
- Once officially enrolled, you will be assisted to find suitable accommodation either in the EDHEC residence or in privately owned flats. EDHEC's International Office is familiar with the VISA formalities of most countries and will provide you with the necessary papers. You may contact the International Office to express your concerns about your visa application, provided you have already checked the necessary pages on the Welcome Guide and contacted your local Embassay first. One of the requirements for most VISA applications is proof of accommodation in France. Again the international Office is on hand to provide you with a list of apartments, halls of residence and other types of housing according to your criteria. You can even "visit" them virtually using our new Housing website. The team will do everything they can to make arrangements with the owner and secure your reservation. It will also pick you up from the airport on your day of arrival (when possible) and take you directly to your new home.
GRE and Tage Mage accepted. CAT also accepted for Indian students only.
What is the EDHEC's code for GMAT?
- MSc & Global MBA Double-Degree: 3QQ-WQ-62
- MIM Global Economic Transformation & Technology: 3QQ-WQ-06
- Masters in Management, Business Management: 3QQ-WQ-05
- Masters in Management, Financial Economics: 3QQ-WQ-36
- MSc in Creative Business & Social Innovation: 3QQ-WQ-60 (GMAT optional)
- MSc in Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence: 3QQ-WQ-82
- MSc in Entrepreneurship & Innovation: 3QQ-WQ-77 (GMAT optional)
- MSc in Global & Sustainable Business: 3QQ-WQ-16
- MSc in Management Studies: 3QQ-WQ-54 (GMAT optional)
- MSc in Marketing Management: 3QQ-WQ-47
- MSc in Strategy Consulting & Digital Transformation: 3QQ-WQ-84
- LL.M. in Law & Tax Management: 3QQ-WQ-26 (GMAT optional)
- MSc in Corporate Finance & Banking: 3QQ-WQ-73
- MSc in Finance: 3QQ-WQ-98
- MSc in Financial Markets: 3QQ-WQ-69
- MSc in International Accounting & Finance: 3QQ-WQ-04
- MSc in Risk & Finance: 3QQ-WQ-93
Is GMAT compulsory?
- The GMAT test is compulsory for most of EDHEC Master programmes. Please check the “Admissions Requirements” of your programme of interest to confirm whether the exam is required.
Why is GMAT compulsory for most of our programmes?
- EDHEC is accredited EQUIS, AASCSB and AMBA. We are obliged to maintain high quality among students and the GMAT is a good measure of this quality.
Can I add an unofficial GMAT score report to my application file?
- You will get an unofficial score report immediately after the test and which you should send to the admissions office. This document will provisionally be accepted in your application file.
EDHEC offers scholarships and financial aid to candidates with excellent profiles. External financial aid is also available to EDHEC applicants.
What is the EIFFEL Scholarship?
- The EIFFEL Scholarship programme offers financial support to high-potential candidates of over € 1000 per month. Applications for the EIFFEL Scholarship need to be submitted to EDHEC before December 1st.
When the tuition fees must be paid?
- Once accepted by the Selection Committee, you will receive by email a tuition fees payment's schedule. You must make your first payment in order to secure your seat into the programme and get your enrolment letter.
How does financial aid apply to the tuition fees?
- Financial aid applies to the second and third instalment for the MSc programme and to the second, third and fourth instalment for the MIM programme.
What is the EDHEC Career Center?
- The Student Career Centre is dedicated to helping students find a job or an internship. The Centre receives every year over 14 000 job and internship offers.
Complementary courses in French are offered to all international students enrolled in our MSc programmes. Our French classes cover all learning levels, from complete beginner to advanced study. The goal is to support your acculturation to French culture and give you the linguistic foundation—grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing and listening—to express yourself in the French language.
- Class Size: 15 students per group
- Contact Hours: 8 hours per week
- Qualifications of the instructors: courses are delivered by an officially accredited French language teaching institution
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See also
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The MSc in Corporate Finance & Banking is an advanced and intensive programme designed for students with a prior training in finance.
This is an advanced and comprehensive programme constructed to give you competency in all key corporate finance and financial markets topics.
About EDHEC
Operating from campuses in Lille, Nice, Paris, London and Singapore, EDHEC is one of the world’s top 15 European business schools. Fully international and directly connected to the business world, EDHEC is a school for business, rather than a business school, where excellence in teaching and research focuses on innovation to stimulate entrepreneurship and creativity. For business from birth and dedicated to business, EDHEC makes entrepreneurs for life, able to remodel or create successful businesses wherever they work.
EDHEC functions as a genuine laboratory of ideas and produces innovative solutions valued by businesses. The School’s teaching philosophy, inspired by its award-winning research activities, focuses on “learning by doing”.
