École Polytechnique Economics, Data Analytics and Corporate Finance Master

The École Polytechnique is offering a two-year Master's degree taught entirely in English focusing on training future strategic decision-makers in the corporate world. This programme achieves this by combining three disciplines usually taught separately namely: microeconomic analysis, corporate finance, and data analytics.

Curriculum

This programme offers students both academic classes and project-oriented classes to navigate between theoretical knowledge and practical application. Each year students must complete an internship either in France or abroad. These internships may be done in corporate finance by joining banks or private equity firms or in strategic consulting across a wider variety of sectors.

Students will have mandatory courses in microeconomics, econometrics or data analytics, and corporate finance. In their second year, they will have the option to specialise in either finance or economics and will have courses tailored to these specialisations. An indicative course curriculum can be read below.

Year 1

Mandatory core courses

Semester 1:

• Refresher in Econometrics
• Refresher in Microeconomics
• Applied Econometrics 1
• Corporate Finance
• Industrial Organisation
• Python

Semester 2:

• Applied Econometrics 2
• Advanced Corporate Finance
• Business Economics

Year long:

• Foreign language
• Lecture series in Public Policy 
• Two modules of humanities and French Culture
• Sport

Elective courses

Semester 1:

• Financial Decisions under Risk 1
• Market Design
• Urban Eco. and Real Estate
• Blockchain 1: Bitcoin and Smart-Contracts
• Environmental Economics
• Case Studies in Corporate Finance
• Private Equity

Semester 2:

• Competition Policy
• Financial Decisions under Risk 2
• Merger & Acquisition
• Behavioural Finance
• Digital Economics
• Blockchain 2: Advanced topics on Blockchain and Platform Design
• Seminar in Quantitative Marketing
• Economics of biodiversity
• Environmental Economics II (prerequisite course ECO572)
• Energy economics with a geography focus
• Law and Finance (new course)

Year 2

Requirements

It is recommended to have a comprehensive Mathematical and Economics training prior to undertaking this programme. However, students who have a background in finance or engineering can also apply as the key element required for this programme is a strong command of mathematics as this programme focuses heavily on quantitative approaches. 

Students will also need to send in a personal statement detailing their motivation for the programme and any relevant experience they may have.