MSc Finance

TBS Education

Introduction
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Curriculum
Program Outcome
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
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Key Information

Campus location

Toulouse, France

Languages

English

Study format

On-Campus

Duration

12 months

Pace

Full time

Tuition fees

EUR 20,000 / per course

Application deadline

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Earliest start date

Sep 2024

Introduction

Admissions

Scholarships and Funding

To assist our students financially, we offer the following discounts for our Master of Science programs. Please bear in mind that discounts and offers of financial support are exclusive and cannot be combined together.

Early Bird Discount

You can get a 10% discount on your tuition fees if you apply and pay before December 31st. Please note that this is the only discount which may be cumulated with others.

Partner University Discount

Students from TBS partner universities and/or students having spent one semester at a TBS campus as part of an exchange program receive a 10% discount on their tuition fee.

Sibling Discount

If you have a brother or sister who is currently enrolled in a TBS program, you will receive a 15% discount on your tuition fees.

Special Discount

You can get this 15% discount based on the excellence of your grades and overall profile. (limited)

Couples Discount

If you’re married/have a child together and both apply for a TBS program for the same year, you will receive a 20% discount on the tuition fees of one of the programs.

Excellence Discount

You can get this 25% discount if you have a>610 GMAT score or >75% GPA; 7.0 IELTS; a great performance during the interview. (limited)

Impact discount

You can get this 25% discount if you have a strong environmental/humanitarian/CSR project and a good academic file. (limited)

External Scholarships

A number of French associations also award scholarships to international students studying in France:

Eiffel Scholarship

The Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Program is managed by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs to enable French higher education establishments to attract top foreign students to enroll in French Master’s and PhD courses.

The application process for the Eiffel Scholarship is extremely selective. Candidate students must be non-French and be less than 25 years old while they must prove excellent academic results. This scholarship can award up to €1,000 per month to successful candidates.

Campus France Scholarship Information

International students wishing to study in France can also apply for a choice of national scholarships.

Curriculum

Program Design

Total number of hours: 420h

This program consists of five learning experiences rigorously designed to develop your managerial and operational skills in your field of professional expertise.

Throughout the program, practical team simulation projects and case studies will help you develop the hard and soft skills necessary to work in Finance (coping with a high-pressure environment, finding/analyzing/interpreting information rapidly and efficiently, structuring your work, and focusing on end-products, collecting and analyzing complex data rapidly and efficiently) by apprenticeship and not only through a textbook.

This MSc contains 9 teaching units and consists of two separate ‘tracks’:

(1) Equity Research and Investment Management (preparation for the CFA exam)

(2) Corporate Finance and Advisory

Professional expertise

9 Course units:

1. Financial and credit analysis

Objective: Learn how to analyze financial statements to understand sources of performance and risk.

2. Capital markets and financial instruments

Objective: Understand (1) how capital markets work and (2) fixed income and derivative securities.

3. Corporate Finance

Objective: Learn what theoretically impacts the value of a firm and how to value a company.

4. Financing

Objective: Understand the practical challenges and opportunities of the main financial decisions.

4.1. Equity Research and Investment Management track

4.2. Corporate Finance and Advisory track

5. Corporate Finance applications

Objective: Apply corporate finance tools to M&A transactions and Private Equity investments.

EQUITY RESEARCH AND INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT TRACK

6.1. CFA Topics: Equity Investments and Behavioral Finance

Objective: Show how investment strategies are implemented and the effect of psychological factors on these strategies.

7.1. CFA Topics: Portfolio Management and Alternative Investments

Objective: Understand (1) portfolio management techniques and their application in real life, (2) the use of alternative
asset classes in portfolio management, and (3) quantitative techniques for investment management.

CORPORATE FINANCE AND ADVISORY TRACK

6.2. Advanced Corporate Finance Topics (part 1)

Objective: Show how investment strategies are implemented and the link between financing and corporate finance
applications.

7.2. Advanced Corporate Finance Topics (part 2)

Objective: Understand practical considerations during M&A transactions.

8. Research methods

Objective: Provide tools, examples, and guidance for students to produce research in their academic and professional activities.

9. Supplementary courses for the CFA program (Equity Research and Investment Management Track only)

Soft Skills Certificate

Certificate designed by 26 professors & leadership and management professionals in collaboration with Career Services.

“Soft Skills” are intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that create the conditions for a successful and sustainable team and allow you to effectively manage your career.

2 Courses units:

Management and leadership skills

Objective: Acquire nine key competencies to lead teams and manage your professional career

Career agility

Objective: Reveal your talent and make evolutionary choices in accordance with your deep aspirations.

The Career Services is a support center that helps students define and develop their career projects. Through several lectures, workshops, individual tests, and coaching sessions, a specialist will support each student from their first questions to looking for the right internship or job.

Coaching: we support you in your reflection on your skills, strengths, and areas for improvement. Through personality tests and individual coaching, we link this self-knowledge to your ambitions and career choices.

Personal Branding: you will participate in workshops to build your CV and e-portfolio to best highlight your experiences and skills for your future employers.

Consulting Mission

A unique exercise that is a major asset in your program!

For the account of prestigious TBS partner companies, students, coached by the professors, carry out a strategic diagnosis aiming to analyze its competitive position, then propose strategic and operational recommendations to meet its challenges.

Examples of partner companies

Aerospace Valley, AIRBUS, Cap Gemini, Comtesse du Barry, Continental Automotive, EY, Hilti, Mars Petfoods, Motorola, Thalès, Rockwell & Collins.

Master Thesis

Objective: Increase your brain agility to anticipate and solve complex business issues in your field of expertise.

Each student in this MSc program is required to write a dissertation that addresses a current issue in management from an academic or professional perspective in his field of expertise.

The student thus contributes to the study, analysis, formalization, and abstraction of the identified problem.

In-company Work experience

Internship

Students may carry out an internship in the company of their choice for a period of 4 months minimum. This internship is not mandatory for the validation of the diploma.