Does anyone have direct or indirect experience with the Finance concentration in the International Graduate Program at the SSE? Specifically, I'm interested in the quality of the coursework (econometrics, derivatives, corp. fin., etc.), availability of internships for the interim summer, and job placement. I'd be looking to be in trading or research in the UK or US after the degree programme, and am curious as to future prospects (I do not feel I would like to make permanent roots in Sweden). Thank you for any comments you may have.

Hi. I have MSc Finance from SSE. The curriculum is being developed from year to year. There are now quite a few good finance courses: Risk Management (2 hand-ins each week, for six weeks; the teacher also gives Derivatives course based on Hull and his own notes which are a good complement) - A MUSTContinuous Time Finance (a superb PhD course with Tomas Björk now open to graduates, based on Björk's book) - A MUSTInformation and Prices in Financial Markets(great teacher, great course content)Fixed Income Securities (great teacher, the course is more introductory; for Interest Rate Models - take Björk's course), Corporate Finance (great teacher, who also gives Venture Capital Course), Valuation (was a very intensive course, but now one of the teachers has died so...I don't know). The Econometrics courses are very good and the teachers are fantastic - first take basic Econometrics, then Financial Econometrics... then you are set.I hope my friend who got MSc Finance as IGP student will tell you more, I'll ask him. He is now working at a hedge fund in London.

Thank you for such good detail in your reply. I am revealing my ignorance here, but how different are the MSc Finance and IGP curricula? Is the coursework detailed below also available to the IGP students? Thanks again.Adrian

Yea, you can take whatever course you want. Usually one cantake only 2 courses/semester, but if you feel you can handle more you can talk the administration into allowing you to take three or maybe even four courses. There is a very good Financial Analysis course in which you also do company valuation but using a model different from McKinsey. The course is offered by accounting department and I highly recommend it.

What about the Swedish school for Economics and Business Administration ? specially regarding their computational finance program!!

I am not familiar with that school, I'm afraid.

it is commonly called Hanken, it exists in Finland serving the swedish speaking community!!any ideas!!

Why don't you look it up online? Talk to some professor, get in touch with some former student?

QuoteOriginally posted by: SVGWhy don't you look it up online? Talk to some professor, get in touch with some former student?I think he is trying to get in contact with former students by asking on this forum...I don't have any experiance from any of those schools, but don't Hanken and SSE have some kind of co-operation? Or am i confusing schools here?I have also heard that SSE recently abandoned their Continuous Time Finance course (perhaps only temporarily, but according to my information they don't offer the course this semester). If you want to read that course, it should still be offered by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) which is also located in Stockholm.