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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

 

 Finance track Economics track 
Mandatory 

Semester 1:

  • Econometrics of Competition
  • Valuation of Start ups

Semester 2:

  • Financial Markets
  • Big Data

Year long:

  • Languages
  • Humanities and French courses
  • Sport

Semester 1:

  • Firms & Markets
  • Econometrics of Competition

Semester 2

  • New Technologies and the sharing Economy
  • Big Data

Year long:

  • Languages
  • Humanities and French courses
  • Sport
Mandatory course options

Semester 1:

  • Business model in a digital era
  • Marketing Strategy Introduction

Semester 2:

  • Case studies on Innovation
  • Managing sustainable innovation
  • Corporate Finance for the Entrepreneur
Elective course options

Semester 1:

  • Financial Decisions under Risk 1
  • Blockchain 1: Bitcoin and Smart-Contracts
  • Case Studies in Corporate Finance
  • Private Equity
  • Lecture series in Finance Economics

Semester 2:

  • Financial Decisions under Risk 2
  • Merger & Acquisition
  • Behavioural Finance
  • Law and Finance

Semester 1:

  • Urban Eco. and Real Estate
  • Environmental Economics
  • Dynamic pricing and revenue management
  • Lecture series in Finance Economics

Semester 2:

  • Competition Policy
  • Digital Economics
  • Seminar in Quantitative Marketing
  • Economics of biodiversity
  • Environmental Economics II
  • Energy economics with a geography focus

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.

Training Offer Details

Target audience
Digital skills for the labour force.
Digital skills for ICT professionals and other digital experts.
Digital technology / specialisation
Digital skill level
Geographic scope - Country
France
Industry - field of education and training
Information and communication technologies not elsewhere classified
Target language
English
Geographical sphere
National initiative
Typology of training opportunties
Learning activity
educational programme
Assessment type
Training duration
Organisation
Is this course free
No
Is the certificate / credential free
No
Effort
Full time
Credential offered
Qualification Award
Self-paced course
No