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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 battle-ground 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 more than half of all responding recruiters for producing the best finance MBAs, and is often treated as an extension of Wall Street research department.

London Business School has long had a powerful finance faculty, which has been further enhanced since it developed the highly successful one year Master's in Finance (MiF) in the mid-1990s. Yet Leeman Robinson, Marketing Manager of the MiF, shares the view that "A specialist Master's 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." In Europe, specialist finance-focused MBAs remain in vogue - the part-time MBA at Cass Business School and the MBA in Financial Studies at Nottingham University Business School have a good following amongst recruiters.

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