2019 Inventory of Top Schools for Studying Abroad in Master of Finance (No. 11-15)

Financial major is a popular major both at home and abroad. Below, I will introduce to you the 11th to 15th rankings of the top finance master’s schools in 2019. The list is based on Times Higher Education. Let’s find out together.

Eleventh place: SKEMA Business School (France)

In 2009, Lille Business School Group and CERAM Business School merged to form SKEMA Business School. The two schools were built in 1892 and 1963 respectively. SKEMA Business School has multiple campuses both internationally and domestically.

French campuses are located in: Lille, Paris, Sofia Science Park (near Nice). International campuses are located in: Suzhou, China, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Raleigh, North Carolina, the United States. Among them, the Raleigh campus cooperates with North Carolina State University. In addition, the college also plans to set up branches in Australia, India and Russia.

The Lille campus covers an area of ??more than 16,000 square meters and has approximately 2,200 students. It offers joint degree programs in partnership with the Health University of Lille II. The Nice campus is located in the Sofia Science and Technology Park and has a partnership with the Aix Institute of Political Science, whose joint degree program allows business students to study political science.

The word SKEMA comes from the Greek word, which means shape, shape, and object forming. In addition, it is also the abbreviation of School of Knowledge Economy and Management.

SKEMA Business School Business School has a Bachelor of Business Administration major in the field of global management. Its MBA degree takes twelve months full-time and twenty-four months on the job. Its doctoral programs and executive education courses are offered in China. France, Brazil and the United States. Its two doctoral programs in Management and Strategy and Project Management are taught in English. Its MBA degree is suitable for students with at least three years of business experience and is also taught in English.

Twelfth place: Grenoble School of Management (France)

In 1984, the Grenoble Chamber of Commerce and Industry established Grenoble Management The school, then called ESC Grenoble, was a graduate business school. The name was changed in 2003. It is triple certified. In addition to Grenoble, it has campuses in Paris and Berlin (2013). In Berlin, it operates jointly with the GISMA Business School in Hannover.

Grenoble School of Management also has campuses in Casablanca, Tbilisi, Los Angeles, London, Moscow, Singapore and Beijing. In 1993, it collaborated with Henley Business School and took the lead in launching a business PhD in France. Since 2009, the college has offered doctoral degrees.

In 2017, Dean Loick Roche stated that the School of Management’s goal is to develop into a “business school serving society” with a focus on entrepreneurial management, innovation and technology. The remarks capitalized on the city's reputation in science and technology - home to institutions such as the European Organization for Nuclear Research. In addition, this statement also plays on the city's reputation for innovation - it has been named one of the most innovative cities in the world by Forbes.

The Grenoble School of Management is also a member of the Grenoble New Technology Innovation Community. The community covers an area of ??250 hectares and costs 1.3 billion euros. It is a research park. In addition to the School of Management, community members include: two research institutions, three European institutions and two further higher education institutions.

In terms of student services, the college attaches great importance to taking advantage of Grenoble's lively and youthful culture and its excellent location adjacent to the Alps. There are several universities at the foot of the Alps, with a total student population of 68,000, accounting for approximately 30% of the total local population. Since 2009, the Grenoble School of Management holds a geopolitics festival. Its student union organizes the World University Ski Championships.

Thirteenth place: ESSEC Business School (France)

ESSEC Business School was founded in 1907 as an economics school. Together with HEC Business School and ESCP Business School, it is known as the three higher business schools in Paris. These colleges specialize in business education and are senior institutions in the field of business in France. The competition for admission is very fierce. The college has competitive entrance examinations and the acceptance rate is about six to seven percent.

The establishment of ESSEC Business School is a response within the Catholic Church to HEC Business School’s advocacy of secularism. Between 1939 and 1960 it was taken over by pastor Camille Donjon.

In 1997, ESSEC Business School took the first step to obtain triple accreditation, becoming the first business school outside North America to obtain AACSB accreditation. Two years later, the college's business program was renamed Masters of Business Administration (MBAs). Currently, ESSEC has two campuses in Paris. The executive education is located in the La Défense business district and the business school is located in Serge-Pontoise on the outskirts of the city.

In 2017, after Emmanuel Macron was elected as the President of France, ESSEC President Jean-Michel Blanquier (who took office in 2013) was appointed as the French Minister of Education, making ESSEC more important in the French education system. The important status continues to be highlighted. During Blanquier's tenure as president, the business school attached great importance to the development of internationalization. In 2015, a new campus was established in Singapore (it had been teaching in Singapore as early as 2006). In 2017, a campus was established in the Rabat-Sale-Kenitra administrative region of Morocco.

In addition, ESSEC Business School also offers an MBA program (same as the Business School of the University of Mannheim in Germany), an English-taught EMBA program, and a global MBA program in luxury brand management and hospitality.

Fourteenth: Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow (UK)

Glasgow University Business School is known as the "Father of Economics" (also known as the "Father of Economics") Named after Adam Smith, the "Father of Capitalism". Its motto is "The Way, the Truth and the Life" and it is one of the few business schools in the world to be accredited by all three major business accreditation bodies.

At the undergraduate level, the Adam Smith Business School offers the following four majors: Accounting and Finance, Business Management, Business Economics and Economics. At the master's level, the college offers a large number of master's courses around finance, economics, management and development. These include: asset pricing and investment, banking and financial services, biotechnology and management, development research, environment and sustainable development, financial forecasting and investment, financial modeling, mapping and management, investment banking and finance, and qualitative finance.

The Adam Smith Business School’s MBA and MSc Management programs cover a variety of subjects, including: sustainable tourism enterprise, business growth, human resources and international finance. Doctoral programs cover: accounting, finance, economics and management. In addition, many international courses are also offered, including: Accounting and Financial Management, Banking and Finance, Business and Entrepreneurship, Corporate Finance and Banking, Master of Finance, Financial Analysis, Human Resource Management and Development, Management and Design Innovation, and Strategic Marketing .

The Adam Smith Business School has a number of "research clusters" operating, including: Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Development and Political Economy, Finance, Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, International Business and Enterprise, Macroeconomics, Marketing and Microeconomics.

Recently, the business school established an “entrepreneurial mill” community. Members of the community can become part of the Global Entrepreneur Innovation Network, which covers 120 cities and has 450 chapters.

No. 15: Durham University Business School (UK)

This business school was founded in 1965 and is a member of the Russell Group of the UK. It is part of the university and one of the earliest business schools in the UK.

In 2002, the college merged with Durham University's Department of Economics and Finance and the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Foundation to form the School of Economics, Finance and Business, which was collectively known as Durham University Business School.

Durham University Business School has been accredited by the world's three major business management accreditation agencies. They are: Association of British MBAs (AMBA), European Foundation for Management Development Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and American Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of International Business (AACSB). This is one of the few in the world.

The college’s undergraduate majors include: economics, finance, business, marketing and accounting. Graduate majors include: Management, Marketing, Finance and Economics. Its MBA offers full-time, part-time, online and blended study paths, with study duration ranging from 12 to 18 months.

Alumni of Durham University Business School include: Andrew Thorburn, CEO of National Australia Bank, Anwar Chouhury, British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, former British Rugby union player Will Greenwood, UK debt markets director Judith Ozcan.

Durham University Business School has more than 200 graduate students. It has scientific research cooperation with enterprises, organizations and academic institutions around the world. Cooperation partners include: Central University of Finance and Economics, University of Tokyo in Japan, BI Norwegian School of Management, Government University of Finance and Economics of the Russian Federation (Moscow) and Korea University in South Korea.

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