Promotion in Wirtschaft und Finanzen

Our Ph.D. program leverages the strengths of our multicultural University and international Faculty and provides talented and motivated students with a high-quality education and research environment that best serves their career aspirations. Our ambition is to offer a Ph.D. program that leverages the specific strengths of our University and international Faculty and provides talented and motivated students with a high-quality education and research environment that best serves their career aspirations.

Our  4-year full-time Ph.D. program includes one year of core courses as well as individualized training depending on the specific research interests and objectives of the Ph.D. student as recommended by the supervisor. Topic-specific individual tutoring and mentoring , as well as  funding for research stays abroad are special components of our program.

PhD students will be introduced to specific research areas of the faculty, including Economic Policy Analysis, Financial Markets and Regulation, and Quantitative Methods and Analysis of Big Data, and have the opportunity to be engaged in corresponding research projects. Our international faculty provides a variety of research opportunities.

The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano was founded in 1997. Our university has a strong international outlook, as testified by its multilingual courses (German, Italian, English, and Ladin) and the high number of students and teaching staff from abroad.

The taught modules on offer and our research projects are linked to international and inter-regional networks. For example, within the Euregio project, we are partnered with the universities of Innsbruck and Trento, and we are committed to reaching top quality standards.