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The MBA programme Management of Financial Institutions is aimed at professionals working in the financial sector, especially at banks, savings banks, or other financial service companies, who wish to take on leadership roles. The target group includes employees from the banking industry, specialised financial areas, or auditing institutions who want to deepen their management skills and prepare specifically for future challenges such as digitalisation, risk management, or innovative financial products. The part-time format is particularly designed for high potentials, specialists, and managers who want to combine studies and career.
What do you need to bring for admission?
To be admitted to the MBA Management of Financial Institutions, you need a first professional university degree (e.g. Bachelor or Diplom) with an economic focus and at least 210 ECTS credits. If your first degree comprises fewer than 210 ECTS credits, you must additionally provide evidence of at least six months of relevant professional experience or comprehensive and appropriate further training measures. There is no Numerus Clausus (NC). Applications are possible for the summer semester.
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The study content you can expect in the MBA Management of Financial Institutions
In the MBA programme Management of Financial Institutions at the University of Finance & Management in Bonn, you will engage thoroughly and practically with the central fields of financial management and its administration. The programme is specifically tailored to executives and specialised professionals in the financial sector and offers comprehensive specialisation in five future-oriented fields:
- Bank management and banking supervision: Regulatory fundamentals, management of credit, market price, liquidity, and operational risks as well as integrated overall bank management.
- Corporate customer business: Sales management, company valuation, financial statement analysis, and structured financing for corporate clients.
- Auditing and fiduciary services: Taxation of companies, auditing, internal audit and compliance, financial statement analysis.
- Private banking: Portfolio management, financial planning, taxation of private investments as well as legal issues in wealth advisory.
- Digital banking: Technologies & regulation, data analytics & artificial intelligence, project management in a digital environment and development of digital business models.
In addition to the specialisations, you will deepen fundamentals such as quantitative methods, information management, business law, scientific methodology as well as interdisciplinary skills in behavioural finance and leadership. A particular focus is placed on the connection between theory and current financial practice. The programme specifically promotes your strategic, analytical and entrepreneurial thinking and also supports you in personal development and key competencies such as reflective ability and taking responsibility.
This is how the part-time MBA study programme is organised
The MBA programme Management of Financial Institutions is designed as a part-time programme alongside employment and extends over 4 semesters (2 years). You benefit from a modern didactic mix of online learning platform (eCampus), digital teaching formats and on-campus attendance days in Bonn. The main pillars of the programme are:
- Digital self-study phases with study materials, practical projects and supervision by specialist lecturers
- On-campus sessions: Usually two attendance days in Bonn per specialisation module; for further modules one attendance day per semester each
- Examinations are mostly taken in written form and offered at decentralised study centres
- Module structure: You enrol in several compulsory and elective modules per semester and choose your specialisation according to your interests.
- In the fourth semester, you complete your studies with the Master’s thesis (including colloquium, a total of 24 ECTS credits).
The part-time concept is ideally suited to the needs of working professionals and can be flexibly combined with your work in the financial sector. Group sizes are small, which guarantees intensive, personal support from the university team.
What career prospects does the MBA Management of Financial Institutions open up?
With the degree Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a focus on financial institutions, you qualify for demanding specialist and management positions throughout the financial sector. The targeted specialisation in one of five areas opens up numerous attractive opportunities:
- Bank management & banking supervision: Leadership roles in risk management, overall bank management and regulatory departments of banks and financial institutions
- Corporate customer business: Management of consulting or sales centres for companies, development and implementation of complex financing and investment strategies
- Auditing & fiduciary services: Activity as audit assistant, taking on tasks in compliance, internal auditing or business consulting
- Private banking: Specialist in individual asset management, senior financial analyst, leadership in wealth management
- Digital banking: Expert in digital transformation, digital consultant, management of innovation projects, chief digital officer
Graduates are particularly sought after for positions with strategic responsibility, for example in the management of banks and savings banks, at auditing and consulting companies, in the digital development of financial business models or in supervisory authorities. The degree also provides the foundation for an academic career (e.g. doctorate) and offers the opportunity to position yourself in an exclusive financial network.
Where you study: your study location and local organisation
Your study location is the campus of the University of Finance & Management in Bonn. Most on-campus sessions take place in blocks on Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays spread throughout the semester. For the written examinations, depending on your place of residence, you use a decentralised study centre of the university – thus travel effort and organisation are designed to be as flexible as possible.
- Campus Bonn address: Simrockstraße 4, 53113 Bonn
- Attendance days: May/June (summer semester), November/December (winter semester)
- Study centres for examinations: Decentralised and selectable throughout Germany
- Online learning platform: eCampus for digital support, communication and learning organisation
Thanks to this combination of on-campus and online learning, you remain flexible in terms of location and time while receiving personal support and close networking with other students and the teaching team.
These costs and financing options apply to the MBA programme
For the part-time MBA programme Management of Financial Institutions, students currently pay at the University of Finance & Management €950 per month. The total cost for the duration of studies (4 semesters / 24 months) amounts to €23,900.
- Tuition fees: €950 per month (if the programme proceeds as planned)
- Total costs: €23,900
- Funding options: Numerous employers in the financial sector contribute to tuition fees or enable leave of absence.
- Scholarships: The university offers attractive scholarship programmes, especially for women, and supports applications for state funding and private scholarships.
- Recognition of prior achievements: Tuition fees can be reimbursed for already completed examination achievements.
Almost all students use individual financing models, whether in the form of employer sponsorship, scholarships or state funding programmes. A flexible instalment payment option is also possible to keep the financial burden manageable.
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