Financial Services Management (M.A.)

Shape Your Financial Future

Master Financial Services Management

Accelerate your career in banking or financial services

If you are interested in working in banking or financial services management, the Financial Services Management Master program is the perfect starting point for your career. You can start every winter and summer semester. After three semesters, you will complete your degree with your Master’s thesis. This course of study offers an individual course selection and is internationally oriented, providing a wide range of job opportunities in the financial services sector. You have the possibility to obtain a Double Degree with the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM) in Ancona (Italy) or the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) in Australia.

Application and Admission

Language requirements:

Applicants who are not native speakers of English need a comprehensive knowledge of English, at least at level B2 verified by TOEIC Listening and Reading with a score of at least 785, TOEIC Speaking and Writing with a score of at leat 310, TOEFL(iBT)-test score of at least 87 points, TOEFL(ITP)-test score of at least 543 points, IELTS 5,5, Cambridge English: First (FCE), Cambrigde English: Business Vantage (BEC Vantage), LCCI EfB Level 2 (Distinction), LCCI EfB Level 3 (Pass) or equivalent.

If English was your language of instruction, please submit a confirmation of your previous university.

Academic requirements:

A prerequisite for admission to the Master's course of study is proof of a degree in an economics/business/management/finance course of study (210 ECTS) at a university of applied sciences and arts, a university or a similar institution of higher education with an average grade of at least 2.9. The course of study must include at least six theory semesters.

Professional competence must be verified by proof of relevant professional knowledge and competences, normally by a degree certificate.

Personal suitability requires a distinctive interest in the selected course of study and is determined and recognised by the Admissions Panel by means of a positive vote. The Admissions Panel can base its decision on a selective conversation and may integrate professional suitability when making its decision.

The Examinations Board may conditionally admit a student who has less than 210 ECTS but who can provide proof of at least 180 ECTS. These conditions can be met by the recognition of additional Bachelor modules, additional study-abroad modules, work experience after completion of the Bachelor degree or successful completion of additional modules at the HS Kaiserslautern - University of Applied Sciences. The Examinations Board will inform the admitted student in writing about the conditions before the beginning of the Master's study programme. The conditions can be fulfilled in advance or during the study of Master modules. The conditions must be fulfilled by the time the student wishes to register for the Master's degree at the latest.

An applicant who has acquired an equivalent professional degree in another course of study may also apply for the Master's course of study. The examination board is responsible for determining the equivalence.

Study Financial Services Management at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences:

• International orientation:
  
  • Master’s program in English language
    
  • No German language skills required
    
  • International student community
    
  • International and experienced professors
    
  • Possibility to obtain a Double Degree in Italy or Australia
    
    
• Study in Italy
  
  • Università Politecnica delle Marche
    
  • about 17000 students
    
  • about 700 professors
    
    
• Study in Australia
  
  • University of the Sunshine Coast
    
  • about 17800 students
    
  • about 400 professors
    
    
• Close to the European financial centers in
  
  • Frankfurt
    
  • Luxembourg
    
    
• Low costs for students
  
  • No tuition fee
    
  • Enrolment fee 139.00€ per semester
    
  • Student residences next to the campus
    
  • Affordable rent and living costs
    
    

Description of the study programme

If you are interested in working in banking or financial services management, the Financial Services Management Master’s program is the perfect starting point for your career. You can start every winter and summer semester and after three semesters you will complete your degree with your master’s thesis. This course of study offers an individual course selection, which means that you decide on your key areas. The master’s program Financial Services Management is internationally oriented and offers, as a result, a wide range of job opportunities in the financial services sector.

Structure of the programme

• Start in winter or summer semester
  
• Complete your degree after three semesters with your master’s thesis
  
• Choose between courses in English and German as well as choose from a variety of modules
  
• Elect from 11 core and 5 supplement modules and choose six of them, at least three of which must be core modules
  
• This concept gives you the chance to put the main emphasis on your interests and, in this way, develop your skills and competences to perfection.
  
  

Qualification and further studies

With the Master of Arts (M. A.) in Financial Services Management, you will obtain a professionally qualifying academic degree from a state university.

The degree:

• qualifies you for a successful career in business and administration and makes you highly attractive on the labour market.
  
• gives you access to the higher civil service.
  
• gives you the authorisation to do a doctorate.
  
  

Career prospects

With a successfully completed master degree in financial services management

• you have the opportunity to work in a dynamic, innovative and multicultural work environment.
• you can start your career perfectly prepared in the financial services sector.
• you can apply your theoretical knowledge in practice.
• you are able to work independently and contribute your ideas to financial services projects.
• you have a master degree from a certified recognised university.

Every field of work has to develop, be dynamic and react to the economy; therefore, the concept of internationalisation and a fundamental theoretical basis qualify you to start your career in the financial services sector with a variety of possibilities.

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