Master in Finance
Porto, Portugal
DURATION
3 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
29 Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 5,520 / per month *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* 1st year fees: 10 instalments of 628,50€; 2nd year fees: 5 instalments of 754,20€ ; NB: Values calculated in accordance with the fees established for the academic year 2023/24
Introduction
Presentation
Taught by a first class national and international Faculty, the MSc in Finance has been producing highly-skilled financial specialists for more than ten years. These experts now occupy prominent positions in Portuguese firms and financial institutions, as well as in international financial centres such as Madrid, London and New York.
The drive to ensure that the programme has an international scope – by creating professional and academic opportunities at home and abroad – is visible in the recruitment of our members of staff and in the choice of our programmes. Our mission is to train and produce highly-qualified students that can hold prominent positions within the financial services sector, either in industry or in service-producing companies, in Portugal and abroad.
Structure
Timetable
The Master in Finance will work with a daytime group and a post-work regime one. The calendar which schedules all classes is announced to the students at the beginning of each semester. In the case of courses taught by invited professors, a concentration of classes may occur in only a few days but with a more intensive schedule. In these circumstances, classes will be scheduled well in advance, allowing time to take the necessary measures.
In the daytime regime, classes are from Monday to Friday from 8:30 to 18:30 and Saturday from 9:00 to 13:00. In the after-work regime, classes are from Monday to Friday, from 19:00 to 22:00, and Saturday from 9:00 to 13:00.
Attendance Regimes
The Masters at the Católica Porto Business School has a single but flexible attendance regime. The curriculum is designed so the programme has a minimum of three semesters (one year and a half). However, for students who wish to obtain a Masters's degree while maintaining their professional activity, you can perform the Masters's within a maximum of 5 semesters (two and a half years), which allows you to distribute the academic load over an extended thus conciliating the schedules and professional load with the Masters.
The beginning and end of semesters are published annually in the academic calendar of the 2nd cycle of the Católica Porto Business School.
Language
English.
Venue
Lectures of the Masters of the Católica Porto Business School take place at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto.
Career Opportunities
The MCs in Finance is suitable for those interested in following a career in finance related areas. Our experience and the opportunities offered to our former students have shown that it is possible to pursue, from this platform, successful professional and academic careers in Portugal and abroad. The MSc in Finance fosters a high-level of cooperation between the University and the business community through the production of applied research work and the establishment of partnerships for internship programmes.
Innovation and the growing complexity of markets worldwide have rendered finance-based careers particularly attractive to individuals with a high-level background and good quantitative skills, allowing them to redefine themselves professionally and redirect their careers towards activities within the financial services sector. The MSc in Finance has welcomed students coming from degree programmes in exact sciences – Engineering and Mathematics – in addition to those who have completed programmes in Economics and Management.
The programme is not exclusively focused on an academic background and therefore provides an accurate and comprehensive viewpoint substantially anchored in the realities of the corporate sector. This makes it possible to train highly-quality human resources perfectly capable of grasping the complex reality of today’s financial markets. Teaching does not lose sight of the contemporary trend towards globalisation and is designed to train and prepare specialised professionals to meet the modern challenges of financial innovation (e.g., structured products), corporate financing (e.g., private equity and project finance), risk management (e.g., credit and business risk analysis) and business governance (e.g., performance assessment and corporate governance).
The MSc in Finance has won a national and international reputation demonstrating the success of the choices made. Many students who have completed our MSc in Finance now hold important positions in several Portuguese institutions and organisations and have access to international career opportunities. New York, Madrid and London are some of the destinations chosen. A number of other students have decided to pursue an academic career and have taken up research work and continued with their PhD studies in reputed foreign universities.
Admissions
Gallery
Program Outcome
| Semester | Discipline | ECTS |
|
Semester I | Valuation | 6 |
|
Semester II | Corporate Financial Strategy | 6 |
| Semester III | Master’s Final Assignment | 36 |
|
Elective Courses* | Advanced Topics in Finance | 3 |
* To be selected from the portfolio of specific courses or from a set of courses offered by other Católica Porto Business School’s master programmes.
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
Scholarships for International Students
Católica Porto Business School annually grants 10 scholarships to applicants coming from other countries, who have a non-Portuguese nationality and do not live in Portugal. The amount of the scholarship covers the tuition fees of the first year of the Master's Programme (curricular component), according to the fees established in the Table of Fees of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) in force, in each academic year. The scholarship award criteria are: an interview and the Master's application score. Find out more here.
Accreditations
Program Admission Requirements
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