Degree
Finance
Valuing, funding and deciding under uncertainty, with the spreadsheet open.
Finance is the most quantitative programme in AUREA's business school. You build models, you do not comment on them: every subject on the finance track is assessed with a file that has to run, balance and survive an assumption changed in front of you.
The modelling lab opens in Term III and runs alongside the rest of the degree. In the fourth year, students manage a simulated portfolio with a mandate, an investment committee and a quarterly report to the faculty.
6
lab-based subjects
1
simulated portfolio managed
3
modes of study
01Graduate profile
By the time you graduate, you will be able to:
Builds auditable financial models and puts them through sensitivity analysis.
Values companies and projects using several methodologies.
Measures and manages market, credit and liquidity risk.
Structures funding and weighs up capital alternatives.
Reads the macroeconomic picture and what it means for decisions.
02Study plan
39 subjects · 175 credit units
Organised into 8 terms. Eight academic terms.
Term I
Year one- Financial Accounting I5 UV
- Applied Mathematics5 UV
- General Economics4 UV
- Introduction to Finance4 UV
- Professional Communication3 UV
Term II
Year one- Financial Accounting II5 UV
- Financial Mathematics5 UV
- Microeconomics4 UV
- Descriptive Statistics4 UV
- Business English I3 UV
Term III
Year two- Corporate Finance I5 UV
- Modelling Lab I5 UV
- Macroeconomics4 UV
- Inferential Statistics4 UV
- Financial Law3 UV
Term IV
Year two- Corporate Finance II5 UV
- Modelling Lab II5 UV
- Capital Markets5 UV
- Cost Accounting4 UV
- Business English II3 UV
Term V
Year three- Company Valuation6 UV
- Risk Management5 UV
- Financial Econometrics5 UV
- Derivatives4 UV
- Financial Ethics2 UV
Term VI
Year three- Banking and the Financial System5 UV
- Project Appraisal5 UV
- International Finance4 UV
- Financial Analytics4 UV
- Specialist Elective I4 UV
Term VII
Year four- Portfolio Management6 UV
- Mergers and Acquisitions4 UV
- Specialist Elective II4 UV
- Personal Finance and Financial Literacy3 UV
- Professional Placement8 UV
Term VIII
Year four- Final Year Project10 UV
- Investment Committee4 UV
- Specialist Elective III4 UV
- Current Affairs Seminar3 UV
03Admission
Requirements
- An upper secondary certificate, or proof of completion.
- A transcript covering all three baccalaureate years.
- ID card or birth certificate.
- Entrance test with an emphasis on quantitative reasoning.
- An interview with the programme lead.
04Afterwards
Where it leads
- Financial analysis and valuation
- Banking and financial services
- Risk management
- Corporate treasury
- Investment appraisal
05Who teaches it
Staff on this programme
M.Sc. in Finance
Héctor Laínez
Head of Finance. Valuation of unlisted companies and funding structures for SMEs.
Company Valuation · Risk Management
M.B.A.
Patricia Zelaya
Dean of the Business School. Management of small and medium enterprises in economies with low levels of formalisation.
Strategic Management · Business Consulting I
M.Sc. in Quantitative Methods
Sofía Brenes
Lecturer and researcher. Experimental design and data analysis where samples are small.
Probability and Statistics · Inferential Statistics
06Frequently asked questions
About Finance
School maths, properly learned. The programme starts there and climbs fast: first-year Applied Mathematics and Financial Mathematics are the levelling-up.
A spreadsheet and Python. Both available in the lab, and both with a free version for students.
Ready to apply to Finance?
The application takes about fifteen minutes and can be saved halfway through. The first priority deadline closes on 30 November.
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