Program Structure

keyboard_arrow_up 1st Semester | 2nd Semester
keyboard_arrow_up Core Courses

The core courses are designed to consolidate your integrated view of the firm and the business environment. Some courses will be waived, depending on your background:

  • Business Ethics & Social Responsability
  • Economics of Business & Markets
  • Financial Decision-Making in a Business Context
  • Management Accounting
  • Managing Organizations
  • Managing People
  • Marketing Management
  • Operations Management
  • Strategic Management
keyboard_arrow_up Corporate Finance

MANDATORY COURSES

  • Advanced Corporate Finance
  • Data Science for Finance
  • Firm Valuation
  • Financial Analysis & Forecasting
  • Financial Derivatives
  • Methods in Finance

 

ELECTIVE COURSES

  • Advanced Fixed Income
  • Banking & Finance
  • Corporate Governance: An International Perspective
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Equity Reports
  • Financial Investments
  • Financial Modelling
  • Fintech
  • Firm Valuation
  • International Finance
  • International Financial Reporting Standards
  • International Market Segmentation
  • International Negotiation
  • Investing in Global Financial Markets
  • Investing in Short-Term Fixed Income Markets
  • Leadership Development
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Performance Oriented Strategies
  • Private Equity
  • Python for Finance
  • Risk Management
  • Robotic Process Automation
  • Sustainable Finance
keyboard_arrow_up Entrepreneurship & Innovation

MANDATORY COURSES

  • Business Research Methods
  • Innovation Management
  • Lean Entrepreneurship or Lean Entrepreneurship Project
  • Technology Strategy

 

ELECTIVE COURSES

  • Business Model Innovation
  • Competitive Intelligence
  • Design for Innovation
  • Digital Product Management
  • Digital Transformation
  • Fostering Creativity in Organizations
  • Global Innovation Challenge
  • Group & Teams Processes
  • Healthcare Transformation
  • Impact Investing
  • International Business Challenges
  • International Industry Analysis
  • International Market Segmentation
  • International Negotiation
  • Intrapreneurship
  • Leadership Development
  • Management of Digital Transformation & Disruption
  • Managing Social Innovation
  • Project Management
  • Responsible Business
  • Retail & Business Model Analytics
  • Robotic Process Automation
  • Social Entrepreneurship: Building Impact Ventures
  • Supply Chain Management
keyboard_arrow_up Marketing

MANDATORY COURSES

  • Brand Management
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Marketing Research
  • Strategic Marketing

 

ELECTIVE COURSES

  • Business to Business Marketing Strategy
  • Brand Activation
  • Competitive Intelligence
  • Digital Marketing
  • Digital Product Management
  • EContent
  • Global Innovation Challenge
  • International Market Segmentation
  • International Marketing
  • International Negotiation
  • Intrapreneurship
  • Leadership Development
  • Luxury Strategy
  • Marketing Analytics
  • Marketing Communication
  • New Value Creation
  • Retail & Business Model Analytics
  • Retailing
  • Services Marketing
keyboard_arrow_up Strategy & Consulting

MANDATORY COURSES

  • Advanced Strategic Management
  • Business Research Methods
  • Strategic Management Consulting or Strategic Management Consulting Project

 

ELECTIVE COURSES

  • Business Analytics
  • Business Model Innovation
  • Competitive Intelligence
  • Corporate Governance: an International Perspective
  • Design for Innovation
  • Digital Product Management
  • Digital Transformation
  • Global Innovation Challenge
  • Group & Teams Processes
  • Healthcare Transformation
  • International Business Challenges
  • International Industry Analysis
  • International Market Segmentation
  • International Negotiation
  • Intrapreneurship
  • Leadership Development
  • Lean Entrepreneurship
  • Management of Digital Transformation & Disruption
  • Managing Social Innovation
  • New Value Creation
  • Project Management
  • Responsible Business
  • Retail & Business Model Analytics
  • Social Entrepreneurship: Building Impact Ventures
  • Strategic Change & Dynamic Capabilities
  • Sustainable Finance
keyboard_arrow_up International Courses

The international courses are designed to strengthen your international perspective on management and prepare you to work in diverse, multicultural business environments:

  • Cross Cultural Management
  • Language Course
  • Managing in an International Context
keyboard_arrow_up Free Electives
You may take free elective courses outside of your program to complement your area of expertise, or simply explore a topic that interests you.
keyboard_arrow_up Career Accelerator Lab
keyboard_arrow_up LERNE
keyboard_arrow_up Language Requirement (mandatory)

By the time of completion of the MSc degree, you must show evidence of proficiency in 3rd language other than English and your native language. You will have a selection of foreign language courses during your program.

keyboard_arrow_up International Experience Requirement (mandatory)

As this program is specifically designed to prepare students for an international career all students are required to spend part of their program abroad.  You can fulfill this requirement through a Double Degree, a semester abroad or an international internship (6 weeks minimum) either during or before starting the MSc program, in a country other than Portugal or your home country. A Double Degree or an exchange adds a 4th semester to the duration of your program.

keyboard_arrow_up Professional Internship Requirement (mandatory)

Professional Internship (mandatory): non-credit granting company internship with a minimum duration of 6 weeks.  Prior professional experience can be used to satisfy this requirement (subject to validation by the Careers & Talent Office), if completed after June 1 of the year prior to beginning of the MSc program. 

keyboard_arrow_up Study trip (optional)

Our International MSc in Management students will have the chance to do a study trip. Study trips are great opportunities to learn about new industries, locations, and roles. In 2020, our students were able to get to know the most fascinating companies and their culture, mission as well as available opportunities in Dublin, Amsterdam or Luxembourg.

 


Note: study trips are not included in our tuition fees.

keyboard_arrow_up 3rd Semester
keyboard_arrow_up Thesis Project

The Master thesis is the culmination of your master program. This is when you build on the knowledge and skills acquired during the program to develop an individual project on topic that resonates with your career aspirations and helps you excel in an area you find professionally relevant.  
The thesis project involves a research methodologies workshop, designed to provide you with advice, resources and useful tools to plan the research for your thesis, and write a dissertation.

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