Professional Master in Banking and Finance

Program Overview

PMBF helps emerging industry leaders cultivate a strategic mindset to meet current and emerging challenges arising from the fast-changing business and technological environment in the banking and finance industry. The program will help participants acquire knowledge and tools to decode and respond strategically to significant changes in the economic and social environment, analyze and design new business models to gain a competitive edge, identify emerging revenue streams analyzing the role of partnerships in value creation for customers anticipate and respond to evolving regulations and exploit the potential of technology to enhance the competitiveness of business.

Courses Offered

Required courses: Macro Economics, Financial Management, Strategy & Leadership, International Finance, Banking, Financial Regulation & Supervision, Risk Management, Capstone project.

Elective courses: Opportunities and Challenges, Digital Transformation: Making it work in banks, Introduction to Business Analytics.

Eligibility

To be eligible for admission to the regular Masters program, an applicant must:

1. Hold a bachelor’s degree (normally from a four-year program), or its equivalent, in an appropriate field of study from an institution of good standing acceptable to AIT;
2. Have undergraduate grades significantly above average.
3. The minimum GPA requirement for admission to the Masters Program is 2.75 or equivalent, at the Bachelor degree level;
4. English Proficiency Requirement: AIT-EET:6 or IELTS- Academic:6 (writing 6) or TOEFL Paper: 550 (writing 59-61) or TOEFL CBT: 213 (writing 25-26): TOEFL IBT: 80 (writing 21-23);
5. For the PM degree program, in addition to the above-mentioned eligibility requirements, an applicant must: have at least 3 years of work experience in areas related to the academic program at AIT and be executives in organizations/companies.
6. Be in satisfactory physical and mental health.
7. Satisfy English requirements by AIT.

Delivery Mode

The program is delivered using a combination of methods such as interactive self-learning, live classroom, face-to-face classroom in AIT campus. Each course (except the integrative module) will be delivered over 3 to 4 weeks. The program will attempt to provide options for participants to attend all or part of the integrative module on campus, considering the participants’ work schedules.