Below you will find a short interactive overview of the structure of the Elite Graduate Program “Finance & Information Management” (FIM).
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Overview The Elite Graduate Program “Finance & Information Management” (FIM) starts within the “Individual Study” offering a range of obligatory introduction courses, e.g. Finance, Operations & Information Management. In core courses the students get advanced knowledge in the main fields of FIM followed by an “Individual Research” project. Within the elective courses, the students develop their individual interdisciplinary profile and then complete their study program with a Master’s Thesis.
Core Courses During the 1st and 2nd semesters, core courses are taught that deepen the students’ methodological and technical skills in all relevant aspects of FIM. Within this Core Courses the students take nine out of the eleven following courses:
Individual Research Within the “Individual Research“ Project, the students work on an academic research paper project, do a practical project with a business partner or both.
Elective Courses The elective courses of the 3rd semester are categorized into the five FIM-areas: Financial Management, Business & Information Systems Engineering, Operations Management, Quantitative Finance and Resource Management (by 2014 the full range of elective courses within the major “resource management” is planned to be available). Besides attending courses out of all majors - to ensure a broad qualification within the areas of the whole program - the students select one major out of these fields as their focus. A total of 32 credit points (in general a course corresponds to 4 credit points) have to be obtained with the majority of credits being scored within the students’ individual major.
During the 4th semester, the students prepare their master’s thesis with a professional partner, within a research project or both.
Interdisciplinary education Different courses from all fields guarantee a high level of scientific skills and simultaneously soft skill training and an interdisciplinary education being essential for a today’s management career. Representative contents of some typical lectures are for example “Empirical Corporate Finance”, “Business & Information Systems Engineering”, “Customer Relationship & Revenue Management”, “Investment Risk Management” or “Materials Resource Strategy”. In between the semesters the students do internships and attend particularly designed soft skill courses and summer schools where especially interdisciplinary education is emphasized. Furthermore, a social project is an integrated part of the curriculum as well as workshops with our business partners.
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