Master in Finance

Recent global financial crisis has significantly changed the financial landscape while paving the way to question the current knowledge where financial markets and players operate and rely on. Increase in the diversity and the complexity of new financial instruments essentially requires a redesigned program equipped with recent techniques and knowledge that aims to meet the requirements of this new era. The Master`s program in Finance is now redesigned to respond this new era by contributing the program participants (academicians and finance professionals) who wish to have a theoretical and practical background for an efficient analysis and expert solution of the financial issues.

Supported by main finance courses, the program also presents a unique blend of courses such as corporate finance, bank financial management, quantitative methods in finance, insurance management, risk management, financial modeling, analysis for financial decision and performance, investment analysis and portfolio management and basic derivative products.Master in Finance program consists of core elements which ensure the students to participate actively in the learning process. Among them case studies, group work, term-papers, compulsory presentations before audience, building empirical models by using real data can be counted. The course participants are also expected to have a broad and analytical perspective to perceive and find out the problems both in their current tasks or prospective job opportunities.

Courses

• BA 513 Managerial Economics
• FIN 501 Financial Institutions and Markets
• ITF 507 Corporate Financial Management
• FIN 502 Bank Management
• FIN 504 Quantitative Methods in Finance
• LAW 514 Legal Structures of Financial Institutions
• FIN 597 Term Project
• ITF 503 Advanced Corporate Finance

Elective Courses

• DOE 501 Basic Derivative Products and Markets
• ECON 516 Economics of Risk and Institutional Risk
• FIN 551 Insurance Management
• FIN 552 Financial Modeling
• FIN 553 Analysis for Financial Decision and Performance
• ITF 501 International Financial Markets
• ITF 510 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management

Application Requirements for International Students

Who can apply?

• Foreign nationals
• Blue Card holders (Turkish citizens by birth, but released from citizenship by the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, and who can certify that their minor children who are registered in that permit are eligible for the rights stated in Law No. 5203)
• Foreign nationals who became Turkish citizen afterwards/dual citizens in the same status
• Turkish nationals who completed the last three years of their secondary education (high school) in a foreign country excluding Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, (including those who completed their entire secondary education (high school) at Turkish schools in the presence of Ministry of National Education in a foreign country excluding Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) before 01 February 2013.
• Turkish nationals who completed their entire secondary education (high school) in a foreign country excluding Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, (including those who completed their entire secondary education (high school) at Turkish schools in the presence of Ministry of National Education in a foreign country excluding Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) after 01 February 2013.
• Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus nationals who reside there and completed their secondary education there having a GCE AL certificate, and those, who registered to high schools in other countries between 2005-2010 and hold or will hold GCE AL certificate.

Who cannot apply?

• Turkish nationals, who completed their entire secondary education in Turkey or in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
• Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus nationals (excluding the ones who completed their entire secondary education there having a GCEAL certificate, and those, who registered to high schools in other countries between 2005-2010 and hold or will hold GCE AL certificate)
• Dual citizens who has a Turkish citizenship by birth. (excluding the ones who completed their entire secondary education in a foreign country excluding Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus/ those who completed their entire secondary education at Turkish schools in a foreign country excluding Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus)
• Dual citizens who has a Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus citizenship (excluding the ones who completed their entire secondary education there having a GCEAL certificate, and those, who registered to high schools in other countries between 2005-2010 and hold or will hold GCE AL certificate)
• Turkish nationals or dual citizens, who have a Turkish citizenship by birth, that attend schools affiliated to the embassies in Turkey, and foreign high schools located in Turkey.