Enrolment requirements
The Master’s Degree in Banking and Quantitative Finance is addressed to university graduates, preferably graduates in Economics and in Business Administration and Management, in Actuarial and Financial Sciences, in Sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, etc.), in Informatics, in Engineering and Architecture with a solid training in quantitative methods.
The maximum number of students will be 40.
The dedication of the accepted students to the Master’s Degree will preferable be exclusive.
The subjects will be almost entirely taught in Spanish. The foreign students will have to demonstrate having a sufficient level of Spanish.
It will be considered as merits the accreditation of a sufficient level of written and spoken English (a punctuation over 550 on the TOEFL is recommendable, over the level A on the Cambridge First Certificate, or over the level 6 on the IELTS of the British Council).
Application process, selection and enrolment.
All the students should follow the three following steps in one of the four organising universities (to their choice):
1. The candidates should apply for their acceptance in the Master’s Degree by completing the registration official process (preregistration) in one of the four organising universities.
Additionally, the candidates should send the specific required additional documentation that is indicated below, for their consideration in the selection process.
2. The Academic Committee of the Master’s Degree will study the received applications and will inform their decision to each candidate by following the established procedure at the university chosen by the student.
3. The students that have been accepted in the Master’s Degree will have to formalise their enrolment in the chosen university.
Registration periods and enrolment
The details on the legal regulatory conditions and on the registration and enrolment periods have to be consulted in the postgraduate services of the universities chosen by the students.
The foreign candidates will have to meet all the homologation requirements of their degrees in Spain according to the current regulations.
The procedures and periods are detailed at:
- University of Castilla-La Mancha
- Complutense University of Madrid
- University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
- Universitat de València
Selection process
The selection will be carried out considering the academic criteria. It is essential the presentation of the academic record and of the curriculum vitae. Students are also required to provide two cover letters signed by professors from their respective degrees or any other academic programme. It will be considered a preferential merit having carried out the Graduate Management Administration Test (GMAT) or the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).
Additional documents
For the intern process of the Master’s Degree, the information to be sent is the following:
- Academic record.
- Curriculum Vitae.
- Brief letter explaining the reasons by which the student wants to study this master’s degree.
- Two letters of recommendation of professors of the degree.
- Proof of the English level.
- Proof of the financing (in its case).
These documents must be sent to one of the following postal addresses or emails that correspond to one of the organising departments of the university where the students want to enrol, except on the cases of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the Universitat de València, where the presentation of the documents has to be made online through the corresponding link (see below).
