Master's Degree in Statistics and Information Management, with a Specialization in Risk Analysis and Management
Lisbon, Portugal
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
EUR 6,000
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The Master's Degree Program in Statistics and Information Management, with a specialization in Risk Analysis and Management, aims to train technical and management staff to be able to identify, quantify, and manage the risks of institutions (whether financial or not). The program aims to train staff of financial institutions or those of a different nature, enabling them to make decisions in risk management, according to the capital requirements established by Solvency II and Basel III. It is especially for Financial Analysts, Financial Controllers, Auditors, and chartered accountants, among others.
This Master's program is ranked as the best master's degree program in Risk Management in Portugal and the 2nd best in the World by Eduniversal, international agency that publishes an annual ranking of the best MBA and Master degree programs in the world (Ranking 2024).
Length
The program lasts 3 semesters. The classes will start in September 2024, end in June 2025, and run after working hours (after 6:30 p.m.), 2 to 3 times a week.
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Curriculum
This program lasts 3 semesters: 2 correspond to the curricular component and 1 to the development of a thesis or work project and the realization of the Course Unit of Research Methodologies, in a total of 95 ECTS.
The curricular component (1st and 2nd semesters of the program) corresponds to 60 ECTS, of which 45 are in Mandatory Course Units:
Mandatory course units
- Banking and Insurance Economics
- Banking and Insurance Regulation and Supervision
- Credit Risk Management
- Dissertation/ Work Project/ Internship Report
- Financial Derivatives and Risk Management
- Investments and Portfolio Management
- Life Insurance
- Market and Liquidity Risk Management
- Non-Life Insurance
- Predictive Analytics in Finance
- Research Methods
The remaining 15 ECTS corresponding to the Elective Course Units, will be chosen by the students among a wide range of available course units.
1st year - Fall Semester
- Banking and Insurance Economics
- Investments and Portfolio Management
- Life Insurance
- Non-Life Insurance
- Predictive Analytics in Finance
- Applied Multivariate Data Analysis
- Applied Network Analysis
- Business Intelligence I
- Business Process Management
- Change Management
- Computational Statistics I
- Customer Relationship Management Systems
- Data Governance
- Data Management and Storage
- Data Mining I
- Data Privacy, Security, and Ethics
- Database Management Systems
- Digital Transformation
- Fixed Income Securities
- Forecasting Methods
- Information Management Systems
- Information Systems Development
- Information Systems Governance
- Information Technologies Services Management
- Monetary and Financial Statistics
- Portfolio Management
- Statistical Analysis
- Time Series Analysis
1st year - Spring Semester
- Banking and Insurance Regulation and Supervision
- Credit Risk Management
- Financial Derivatives and Risk Management
- Market and Liquidity Risk Management
- Analysis of Discrete Data
- Analysis of Variance
- Architectures for Information Systems
- Big Data Analytics
- Blockchain
- Blockchain & crypto assets
- Business Impact of Digital Projects
- Business Intelligence II
- Computational Statistics II
- Cybersecurity
- Data Mining II
- Data Visualization
- Data-driven decision making
- E-Business
- Econometrics Methods
- Emerging Technologies for Innovation
- Enterprise Cloud Mobility
- Financial Reporting
- Industry 4.0
- Information Project Management
- Innovation Management and Design Thinking
- Knowledge Management
- Leadership and People Management
- Longevity-Linked Securities & Derivatives
- Operational and Business Continuity Risk
- Process Mining Powered By Nokia
- Sampling Theory and Methods
- Smart and Sustainable Cities
2nd year - Fall Semester
- Dissertation/ Work Project/ Internship Report
- Research Methods
Program Outcome
Goals
This program aims to train technical staff and managers to:
- Become familiar with operations and products that are part of the activity of financial institutions
- Identify and quantify risks associated with financial institutions
- Manage various current risks in institutions
- Making decisions based on quantifying techniques of economic value
- Manage the new European solvency systems for banking and insurance in a balanced way.
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