The specialization in Financial Engineering can be followed entirely in English. It is organized around major themes of modeling financial tools and markets.

Objectives

This specialization is organized around major themes of modeling financial tools and markets.

It trains specialists in modeling financial tools and markets. It provides students with the methodological and quantitative tools they need in order to participate actively in the creation, management, and control of financial products and services with high scientific and technical added value. It gives them mastery of concepts and techniques in an innovative framework. Target groups

The program is intended for:

students who want to work in advanced areas of finance. students who want to work in the quantitative departments of financial institutions, in risk management, in the technical departments of insurance companies, in pension funds or in structuring functions in trading rooms or investment fund management. people who want to strengthen their knowledge by complementary training in the fields of mathematical finance or in actuarial services. Skills gained on completion of the specialization detailed knowledge of financial institutions, markets, and assets, of their principles of operation and/or of use; mastery of concepts and problems specific to asset management and risk management; ability to identify mechanisms of price formation and of risk emergence in order to control the conceptual and technical aspects of market and banking finance; mastery of the technical aspect of financial operations by developing innovative procedures of calculation and optimization; applying the quantitative and methodological aspects of the tools... [-]

The Economics program studies the functioning of the global economy. You will discuss all economic actors and their interactions: families, businesses, financial institutions, government, and society. The master’s program provides you with an advanced insight into economic theories, models and techniques that you can use to analyze and evaluate complex social issues with regard to the interactions and behaviors between economic actors. You’ll learn how these actors make economic choices (consume, production, labor, investments, import, export, etc.), what the consequences are for society and how problems in this matter can be solved best.

Course structure

The master’s program has, in addition to a common part with general courses, two majors that allow you to tailor your curriculum, according to your own interests. You can choose three courses from one major and an elective course from a broad range of courses. All students have the opportunity to do an (international) internship. The internship can be added to the programme as an elective course.... [-]

Course content

A business engineer has a thorough knowledge of the discipline of business administration and technology, i.e. technological products and processes. In this respect, a business engineer may act as a mediator between technical and business economic position to conduct data analysis, modeling, and decision-making. He/she is trained to develop and implement business solutions starting from a model to a business process.He/she is trained to develop and implement solutions for business problems. He/she models the real business situation in an (abstract) presentation, takes relevant decisions based on the model and translates these decisions into business processes.

The Master of Science in Business Engineering is a program in business administration that focuses on (data-driven) management science, business processes, and technology. These three disciplines are educated throughout the two-year master program in different manners through theoretical lectures, practical case studies, and business games as well as guest speakers and company projects. The master's program teaches these disciplines both in a theoretical and a practice-oriented way.... [-]

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The Business Economics program is aimed at students interested in the business scene. It prepares them for the active and flexible fulfillment of a wide range of tasks in the financial, industrial, trade and service sectors in which companies and social profit organizations operate. Students become acquainted with almost every functional aspect of the business world: how and why a company is established, how it is financed, how it organizes itself administratively, how it produces goods and services, how it markets and sells those goods and services, how it deals with personnel and how the company’s management coordinates and steers all those activities. Emphasis is placed on the inside of the business.... [-]

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The Business Economics program is aimed at students interested in the business scene. It prepares them for the active and flexible fulfillment of a wide range of tasks in the financial, industrial, trade and service sectors in which companies and social profit organizations operate. Students become acquainted with almost every functional aspect of the business world: how and why a company is established, how it is financed, how it organizes itself administratively, how it produces goods and services, how it markets and sells those goods and services, how it deals with personnel and how the company’s management coordinates and steers all those activities. Emphasis is placed on the inside of the business.... [-]

Course content

The Business Economics program is aimed at students interested in the business scene. It prepares them for the active and flexible fulfillment of a wide range of tasks in the financial, industrial, trade and service sectors in which companies and social profit organizations operate. Students become acquainted with almost every functional aspect of the business world: how and why a company is established, how it is financed, how it organizes itself administratively, how it produces goods and services, how it markets and sells those goods and services, how it deals with personnel and how the company’s management coordinates and steers all those activities. Emphasis is placed on the inside of the business.... [-]

This graduate programme in Economic Policy will help you to analyse the wide range of problems economic policymakers are facing and to understand the background to political decision-making. You will acquire an advanced knowledge of macroeconomics, econometrics and philosophy of economics.

This master programme is a pre-experience M.Sc. of Business and Economics and focuses on Economic Policy. No prior working experience is required. The average age of our students is between 21-25 years old

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As the Master of Business Economics is an academic master program, the acquisition of scientific competences is one of the core objectives. You will receive a sound scientific training in chosen specialist areas in the field of business administration: Accountancy and Auditing, Finance, International Trade, Marketing or Strategy and Organization.

The program aims to improve your insights and ability to recognize and resolve business administration issues in a methodologically sound and effective manner. The program also encourages ethical reflection on the position of the manager in society, evolutions in the corporate world and sustainability issues in today’s globalizing economy.... [-]

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Increasing computer power and the professional need to extract objective information from collected data have led to complex databases. Simultaneously, statistical science has become a large discipline with well-developed methods and techniques for a wide range of data structures. Knowledge obtained from correctly analysed data allows to predict, adjust and even optimize processes based on empirical evidence. On the other hand, inefficient or incorrect data collection and analysis can lead to inferior or misleading conclusions with possibly far-reaching consequences.

Therefore, international professional and research standards in various fields demand high quality data analysis, performed by qualified statisticians. This program offers intensive training in modern statistical methods and data analysis to scientists from a variety of fields including biology, bio-informatics, economy and marketing, environmental and life sciences, engineering, mathematics and physics, psychology and social sciences …The program aims at improving problem solving skills and evidence based decision making. This will enable scientists to play a distinctly important role within their field of expertise. Course structure ... [-]

Objectives

This program trains future executive managers and corporate executives of businesses and organizations specializing in all business areas related to both internal and external control processes.

Target groups

The program is intended for students wishing to pursue a career in Finance (auditor, certified public accountant, etc.). Financial Analysis and Auditing is partially taught in English.

Skills gained on completion of the specialization

In technical matters:

Mastery of accounting, financial, auditing and legal procedures necessary for a good understanding of the risks that organizations face on a daily basis; The capacity to gauge these risks as to the strategic, economic, legal and ethical context of an organization’s environment; The integration (or due consideration) of the strategic, ethical, legal and economic context of organizations, so as to develop systems for internal and external control, to manage the identified risks and to control them. ... [-]

Objectives

This course gives students specialized skills in:

portfolio management financial analysis management of institutions investment decisions (project financing and acquisition/financing of companies).

The focus is on the application of these principles and methods rather than their development by the students.

Target groups

This program is intended:

for students who are attracted by a broad range of jobs in market finance; for students who are attracted by jobs as financial analysts, professions in the world of private equity or corporate finance consultancy; for those who wish to maintain a broad spectrum of career opportunities while choosing a curriculum that will enable them to fit into a professional environment as quickly as possible. ... [-]

The Master’s degree in economics, available in two specializations, Economics and Finance and Economics and Society, offers you:

tools that are essential in order to analyze and understand the issues of local and global economics. scientific knowledge and quantitative techniques in order to analyze economic, financial and social problems on the basis of observed facts and data. Large-scale digitalization and the appearance of massive data require increasingly quantitative management from companies, public administrations, and non-governmental organizations. This training program for economists is one of the best adapted to this technological development. a training program that is directed toward analysis and interpretation of data in order to make better decisions and forecasts. a program based on the expertise of HEC in the following areas: regional economic development, competition, and innovation, public economics, and finance. varied and attractive career opportunities. ... [-]

The programme title and the English equivalent have been approved by the Commission Higher Education in Flanders on 19 January 2018. We expect the final approval of the programme by the Flemish government by the beginning of March 2018.

This is an English-taught programme of 120 ECTS which prepares students for careers in actuarial science, financial engineering or quantitative risk management within financial institutions.

This master's programme brings:

basic training in actuarial engineering, insurance, financial products, financial mathematics and engineering, data analytics for finance and insurance, risk management for financial institutions; advanced courses showing the latest developments in the field; a blend of theoretical coursework and computational training; an introduction to practical aspects, through the straight-from-the-frontline experience of our staff, guest lecturers, and an internship (6 ECTS); a multidisciplinary approach, where technical, quantitative courses come along with coursework in (financial and insurance) regulation, prudential regimes, economics and reporting. ... [-]

The Master of Advanced Studies in Economics (MASE) is an advanced English-taught program which takes a student with an initial graduate economics degree further into the research frontier in economics.

What is the 'Master of Advanced Studies in Economics' all about?

The Master of Advanced Studies in Economics offers students a deeper knowledge in specific areas of application, provides them with advanced theoretical and empirical tools to analyze concrete economic problems and acquaints them with current research practices in economics.

The MASE features a choice of graduate-level courses from different fields within economics. The goal of the program is to enable you to find a promising research topic and to stimulate you to develop your own research on this topic. This research leads to the MASE thesis, which for many students eventually becomes the first chapter of a doctoral dissertation.... [-]

The Master of International Business Economics and Management is a tailor-made program for non-economic graduates. It offers insight into all major disciplines of business economics and management at an academic level.

What is the 'Master of International Business Economics and Management' all about?

The Master in International Business Economics and Management (MIBEM) is a master program for holders of a degree in a non-business economic or management discipline. It prepares for a career in international business through the acquisition of business economic insights, knowledge and management skills.

The curriculum adopts a practical and business-oriented perspective, but still provides a thorough treatment, based on science, of major international business economic and management issues.... [-]