Master in Finance: M1 + M2 tracks (FIT, FIRE, Corporate Finance + Double Degrees in Finance (FIRE and Corporate Finance)

Are you looking for a career to provide you with the skills and knowledge to effectively manage finances?

Do you wish to become a financial expert upon graduation?

TSM offers to you a unique academic approach through the Master in Finance program to comprehend the conceptual foundations and analytical methods in finance.

To build an intuitive understanding of finance to better communicate with key stakeholders and grow your career. Interact and engage with like-minded peers from around the globe. Join this program of excellence that is EFMD-accredited.

An EFMD-accredited programme

The TSM Master in Finance is among the top 10 Masters in Finance that are EFMD-accredited worldwide.

Students who graduated from this EFMD-accredited programme or are about to join are assured of the best international standards in terms of training and recognition on the job market.

The EFMD accreditation is the most thorough programme accreditation system for business and management programmes that have an international perspective. It covers all facets of program provision: from its institutional, national and international environment, through its design, delivery, outcomes, and impacts, to its quality assurance processes. It particularly emphasizes academic rigor, practical relevance, internationalization, ethics, and sustainability.

What to expect?

The Master in Finance is a two-year program:

• the first year covers the foundations of finance,
• second year: choice of tracks,
• students also have the opportunity to get a double degree with our partner HEC Liège.

Choice of tracks in Master 2

M2 Financial Market and Risk Evaluation The Master “Financial Market and Risk Evaluation” (FiRE) offers theoretical and practical insights on financial markets. Students pursuing the Financial Market and Risk Evaluation track will also learn to:

• Use modeling and computational tools to price financial assets ;
• Understand the functioning of financial markets ;
• Identify and manage operational and financial risks.

M2 Corporate Finance

The Master in "Corporate Finance" aims at providing students with the skills required to analyze and manage corporate financial structure. Students pursuing the Corporate Finance track will learn to:

• Apply financial analysis and corporate valuation methods;
• Plan and manage strategic financing;
• Identify and manage operational and financial risks.

M2 Finance and Information Technology

The Master in “Finance and Information Technology” (FIT) provides students with skills in both finance and financial IT. Students pursuing the Finance and Information Technology track will learn to:

• Analyze and exploit big data to extract information to make financial decisions;
• Implement and upgrade business processes that collect information to support the company’s decisions;
• Design and implement business intelligence systems applied to financial contexts.

M2 Financial Market and Risk Evaluation: double degree with HEC Liège, Belgium

The double degree Financial markets and Risk Evaluation (DU - FiRE) is a degree of excellence that gives a double competence in market finance and banking.

• It aims at training financial professionals as financial analysts, fund and asset managers, consultants, and financial market professionals.
• It gives access to the Master of Banking and Asset Management of HEC Management School - University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium - and the corresponding degree, in addition to the EPAS-accredited Master Financial Markets and Risk Evaluation of TSM.
• Students who enroll in this program spend the first two semesters at TSM and the third and fourth semesters at HEC Liège.

M2 Corporate Finance: double degree with HEC Liège, Belgium

The double degree «Corporate Finance» (DU - CF) is a degree of excellence that gives a double competence in corporate finance and banking.

• This program gives access to the Master of Banking and Asset Management of HEC Management School - University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium - and the corresponding degree, in addition to the EPAS-accredited Master Corporate Finance of TSM.
• Students who enroll in this program spend the first two semesters at TSM and the third and fourth semesters at HEC Liège.

On completion of the degree, you will be able to:

• Know the basic institutional and regulatory framework of finance in organizations and markets;
• Understand the conceptual foundations and analytical methods in finance;
• Apply analytical methods in finance to solve practical problems encountered by corporations, financial institutions, and markets;
• Critically assess the drivers of contemporary financial issues;
• Incorporate ethical dimension and implications for sustainability in financial decisions;
• Communicate effectively in oral and written form;
• Solve complex problems.

About Toulouse School of Management

Training Responsible, Enterprising and Globally-oriented managers

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Toulouse School of Management is one of the top French public management schools located in Toulouse. It offers full-time educational programs in the main management disciplines such as accounting and financial control, finance, human resource management, marketing, and strategy. Courses are offered at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

The school delivers top-quality academic and professional education, ensuring that students will quickly find employment upon graduating. It prepares students for the working world through teaching, talks by top-level professionals, supervised projects, and extended internships.

TSM offers concrete international opportunities for students. We have a large network of international partners throughout the world and several of our degrees are taught in English.

• 3 000 students
• 16 Masters specialisations
• 15% of students on international mobility programmes
• 23 000 members in the graduate network
• 84% of graduates find work in the industry within six months of graduating

TSM obtained EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) accreditation, in October 2023. This is a European label awarded by the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) to prestigious business and management schools for a period of 3 or 5 years.

The school as a whole, and not just a particular programme, is evaluated according to a number of criteria:

• the school's governance, strategy and resources,
• teaching programs and staff, student services and personal development,
• the international dimension of the school, its students, teachers and programs,
• corporate relations,
• the school's contributions to the wider community.

Teaching that is rooted in state-of-the-art research

When students join Toulouse School of Management, they don’t just attend a school. They benefit from the expertise of one of the most prestigious centers for research in Management in France.

TSM-Research is one of four French research centers in management accredited by the CNRS (The French National Centre for Scientific Research) as a “Joint Research Unit”. This label has only been awarded to research centers in management belonging to the Ecole Polytechnique, HEC Paris, Paris-Dauphine University and IAE in Grenoble.

Commitment to international research

This distinction demonstrates the Center’s commitment to international research at the highest level.

There is a deep connection between the research center and the school at TSM. The 54 TSM academic researchers are involved in the design and teaching of TSM classes. Students enrolled in both initial and continuing education programmes benefit from teaching that is steeped in state-of-the-art research.

TSM Research is an active contributor to all subjects in management sciences: from finance to human resources management, as well as strategy, marketing, accounting and management control.

Faculty members have significant international experience and the opportunity to spend periods at various universities such as Carnegie Mellon (USA), London Business School (UK), Princeton (USA), and Wharton (USA).