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This outline presents a nominal study plan for students starting their program in academic year 2025-2026.
It is based on the Master Education and Examination Regulations (EER). In case of any discrepancies, the EER is leading!
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Master Financial Economics 2025-2026

Year 1 Master Financial Economics - No specialisation 2025-2026 (start in September)
Year S1 P1 EBC4023 ECB and Monetary Policy EBC4097 Quantitative Techniques for Financial Economics EBS4029 Writing a Master's Thesis Proposal: Financial Economics
P2 EBC4060 Global Banking
or Elective 1		 Elective
P3    
S2 P4 EBC4058 Fixed Income Management   EMTH0001 Master's Thesis or ETIP0001 Thesis-Internship Programme 2
P5 EBC4010 Empirical Analysis of Financial Markets or Elective 1  
P6    

1 Choose EBC4060 in period 2 and/or EBC4010 in period 5. There are only two viable combinations:

EBC4060 and EBC4010 are integral to this program, so you have to follow at least one of them.

2 Master's Thesis will be registered by the Education and Exams Office once you have completed the prerequisite skill EBS4029.
The Thesis-Internship Programme allows for an alternative way to write your thesis at a company.

For the full text, see Chapter XIV SBE Master’s study programmes from the Master Education and Examination Regulations for academic year 2025-2026.

The Master’s exam for the study programme Master of Science in Financial Economics, no specialisation is composed of three (3) compulsory courses of 6.5 ECTS credits per course common to all specialisations, three (3) elective courses (amongst them one (1) integration course) of 6.5 ECTS credits per course, to be chosen out of the list of specialisation courses offered within the MSc FINEC, one (1) skills training of 4.0 ECTS credits, and the Master’s thesis of 17.0 ECTS credits. In order to meet the exam requirement within the available space for elective courses as stated in paragraph 2 of this Article, students need to choose three (3) elective courses, of which at least one (1) integration course, from the MSc FINEC electives list as provided in the Study Outline on SBE Student Intranet.