Career Perspectives

Among employers, Ulm University has an excellent reputation for well-trained finance students. One proof of this is the annual career fair at Ulm University, in which around 50 companies participate, many of them from the financial services sector. It is an excellent opportunity to talk to companies about an internship or a job.

For some of the jobs offered in Germany, employers expect graduates to have a good knowledge of German. But many of our students have secured such jobs even though they had no knowledge of German at the time they arrived – they learned German through the language courses we offer. In addition, many of our graduates work for global financial companies (e.g. Bank of America or Allianz). Employers of former MSc Finance students include:

  • Bank of America
  • Allianz
  • KPMG
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Goldman Sachs
  • UniCredit
  • Bank of China
  • Ernst & Young
  • Talanx
  • DZ Bank
  • ... and many others

Jovana from Serbia

What I really like about the Master in Finance program is that it offers courses that cover a wide range of areas in finance and that students are completely free to choose their own study path. Since I come from a country in which the financial sector is not very developed, this helped me a lot to get an overview of many different topics and to choose my area of interest. Furthermore, the environment and the overall atmosphere at the University is very stimulating and besides high-quality theoretical and practical knowledge that students can gain, they have a chance to work together with their colleagues who are coming from all around the world and to learn more about different cultures and team-work in such an international environment.

In my opinion, the experience I gained during two years I spent in Ulm prepared me in the best possible way for my future career and enabled me to enter a leading-edge company in the area of the investment and risk.

Jovana, student from Serbia.
After graduating in 2013, Jovana got a position as an analyst at risklab GmbH, The Investment and Risk Advisory Experts of AllianzGI Global Solutions

Sirui from China

"Studying at Ulm University has always been one of the best experiences to me. In my view, this is a great place where excellent faculty and brilliant students meet. And I am very thankful that I have been able to build up my knowledge and skills in a practical way via the MSc Finance program. Moreover, it has also been a great pleasure for me to make so many good friends throughout my study here. I miss them so much and I hope one day we could reunite in all parts of the world!"

Sirui, student from China.
After his graduation in 2019, Sirui started to work on his PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Ken from Japan

I see three strong advantages in studying the MSc Finance program at Ulm. First, I feel the course offers a perfect mixture between theoretical and practical knowledge. My first degree was in mathematics, where knowledge was passed on through a piece of chalk on the blackboard. As much as I enjoyed this experience, in Ulm many courses are real-life oriented, we are able to gain experience applying knowledge and handling data using software such as Bloomberg, DataStream, MATLAB, R, or C++. I personally found this extremely helpful during my internships. Second, the diversity of students in the program is just surprising. Colleagues literally come from around the globe (of course, Germany too!) and it is a great opportunity to be able to network with such a diverse range of colleagues. Third but not least, I find this program very flexible. You have an opportunity to become a teaching assistant in your third semester. You can write your master's thesis in collaboration with a renowned institution. You could perhaps do an exchange semester in the USA or take a semester off doing an internship. I have seen colleagues structure their own unique master's program here.

Finally, as a student studying finance, taught to make 'rational' decisions, I would like to end by saying that the cost and quality of education in Ulm leads me to believe that I was able to maximize utility doing my master's degree here.

Ken, student from Japan.
After graduating in 2013, Ken went to Tokyo, Japan, where he is working as an asset manager.

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