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5.2 FINANCE

Finance is one of the most popular specialisations sought by MBA applicants. Finance is such a complex industry that many schools have large departments dedicated to it. Most of the world's investment banks are staffed primarily by MBA graduates from schools with a strong reputation in finance.
However, only recently have specialist programmes been developed dedicated to the finance professional. In the US, the finance department has become a battleground for business school supremacy. With the high profile of Wall Street amongst MBA recruiters, finance is one of the most important disciplines. The Wharton School, with pre-eminent professors like Jeremy Siegel, was selected by 48% of recruiters for producing the best finance MBAs and is often treated as an extension of Wall Street research departments.

London Business School has long had a powerful finance faculty, which has been further enhanced since it developed the highly successful one year Masters in Finance (MiF) in the mid-1990s. Yet John Newbould, Marketing Manager of the MiF, shares the view that, "A specialist Masters like the MiF is very different from our generalist two-year MBA. It is intended for finance 'junkies'... 76% of our MiF class already have an MBA or management degree."

Specialist MBAs like the part-time MBA at Cass Business School, which appears tenth this year, and the MBA in Financial Studies at Nottingham University Business School, which has dropped out of the Top Ten, also have a good following amongst recruiters.

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