- Degree
- Master of Science in Global Finance and Economics
- Course location
- Frankfurt am Main
- In cooperation with
- The MSc in Global Finance and Economics programme is taught by professors from the Faculty of Economics and Business at Goethe University Frankfurt, augmented by lecturers from the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Vietnamese-German University. The programme also involves courses taught by high-level practitioners in financial markets and in economic analysis who share their experiences with programme participants.
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- The programme is conducted in English.
- Full-time / part-time
- • full-time
- Programme duration
- 4 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter semester
- Additional information on beginning, duration and mode of study
- The Master in Global Finance & Economics is conducted in English as a full-time format. Classes take place on the campus of Vietnamese-German University (VGU) (https://vgu.edu.vn/), located about 40 km from the centre of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The programme starts once a year in VGU’s autumn semester, around mid-September. The programme lasts for four semesters and entails 120 credit points (according to the European Credit Transfer System).
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- 2,350 EUR
- Additional information on tuition fees
- Approximately 4,700 EUR per year (international students)
The tuition fee covers all costs for enrolment and participation in the programme for one academic year.
The tuition fee does not cover any non-academic fees, such as living and travel/transportation costs as well as health insurance costs.
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- Practitioners in today's financial markets and economic analysis are facing a myriad of probing challenges. The MSc in Global Finance and Economics programme is designed with such challenges in mind and
• combines thorough training in state-of-the-art methods in asset pricing and corporate finance with corresponding training in microeconomics, monetary economics, macroeconomics, econometrics, data science, and selected aspects of programming, providing its participants with a broad methodological apparatus and those tools needed to address current and future challenges in global finance and economic analysis.
• combines academic rigour with a focus on topical issues facing financial practitioners and economic policy decision-makers and gives due consideration also to the development of transferable skills such as effective communication, networking, and leadership.
• provides its participants with the opportunity to gain valuable experience outside of Vietnam through an optional "Experience Frankfurt" module, including the option to engage in in-depth academic research at Goethe University as part of the work underlying the Master's thesis.
The programme is aimed at promising graduates of Business, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics and related undergraduate programmes, whose goal is to prepare for rewarding professional careers in financial markets, financial regulation, or in monetary and fiscal policy. The programme draws upon the expertise in finance and monetary economics at Goethe University and at Vietnamese−German University and links to the broad range of premier financial institutions based in Frankfurt as well as the growing number of these in Ho Chi Minh City, reflecting the city’s efforts to become an international financial centre. The key objective of the programme is to put graduates in a highly competitive position in the recruitment process for rewarding jobs in the financial industry. Some programme graduates may choose to pursue academic research in top-notch structured PhD programmes in Finance and in Economics.