Finance shapes the future of our society. It determines how capital is allocated to companies and institutions, how new innovations are funded, and how societies respond to urgent global challenges.
Today, finance is increasingly embedded into our lives and growing more complex. This development means financial experts who understand the subject deeply from strategic, data-driven, and ethical perspectives are needed now more than ever.
At Aalto University’s Bachelor’s Programme in Finance, you’ll specialise in finance from day one. This programme combines a strong focus on finance, analytics, and strategic decision-making with key concepts from business and economics, giving you the tools to implement sound financial decisions under uncertainty. Financial decisions ripple beyond markets, so you'll learn to evaluate them not just for their financial outcomes, but also their broader impact on society.
You will learn to:
Graduating from the Aalto University Bachelor’s Programme in Finance will prepare you for a high-powered career at the centre of key financial decisions in businesses and institutions. Your skills will enable you to analyse complex problems under risk, allocate financial resources effectively, and guide strategic decisions that have a real-world impact.
You will have the responsibility to help address some of society’s most important challenges – funding the green transition, improving financial resilience, and supporting innovation – and direct capital toward its most productive and responsible use.
Whether your future career is in investments, corporate finance, consulting, analytics, or any other area, you’ll be ready to shape a more resilient financial industry.
In the Bachelor’s Programme in Finance, the language of instruction is English.
The tuition fee for this programme is 12 000 euros per academic year. Citizens of European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland do not pay tuition fees. Citizens of other countries must pay tuition fees.
Aalto University offers a small number of scholarships in the form of tuition fee waivers to fee-paying students. Scholarships can be awarded to the highest-achieving applicants based on the programme's evaluation criteria. Applicants are ranked according to the criteria outlined on the programme's webpage.
More information on tuition fees and scholarships at Aalto University is available at the Scholarships and Tuition Fees webpage.
Alongside classes and assignments, you’ll work extensively in teams, apply theory in practice through real-life case studies, and sharpen your public speaking skills with presentations. Courses regularly feature guest lectures and collaboration with companies, giving you an inside view on the most up-to-date practices and perspectives in the industry.
Outside of your core studies, you’re free to choose courses from other Aalto schools to shape your minor and elective studies, building a professional skillset that reflects your interests – whether they lie in technology, design, or elsewhere.
Programme structure:
The Bachelor’s Programme in Finance lasts three years and comprises a total of 180 ECTS. The programme is organized as full-time studies and teaching is organized as contact teaching on campus (except for a few exceptions).
Basic studies (77 ECTS)
Major studies (52 ECTS)
Minor studies or international exchange (24-30 ECTS)
Language studies (11 ECTS)
Elective studies (10-16 ECTS)
Your first year focuses on building a solid foundation across finance, business, and economics. You’ll also start building your technical skills in mathematics and statistics as applied to finance.
In year two, you’ll deepen your understanding of how financial systems work within a broad economic, business, and societal context. You’ll focus on more advanced financial and economic concepts and continue with your electives. Year two will culminate in the capstone course, Finance and Society, where you’ll examine how financial systems interact with broad societal forces, from economic development to addressing global challenges like sustainability and financial instability.
In year three, you will write your bachelor's thesis and complete your elective studies. You also have the choice of going on an exchange or completing a minor.
While the Bachelor's Programme in Finance provides all students with the same rigorous grounding in finance, this shared foundation is designed to be built upon. You will shape your own path through minor studies and elective courses, which allow you to tailor your degree toward the areas that interest you most. This can mean deepening your quantitative skills, exploring a complementary field such as economics, management, data science, quantum technology, industrial design, or one of the many others taught at Aalto University, or gaining international experience through exchange studies. This flexibility means that while every graduate leaves with the same strong command of financial theory and practice, no two students' degrees look quite the same.
Finance is global, and you’ll be a part of this international environment from the start. You’ll join a tight-knit, diverse Aalto finance community with a great atmosphere and strong team spirit.
The student organisation, Aalto Finance, will connect you to international finance and industry leaders through frequent company collaboration, events, and regular trips to global financial hubs.
You’ll also have the chance to go on exchange at one of Aalto’s prestigious partner universities, broadening your perspective and deepening your understanding of global finance.
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As a graduate of the Aalto Bachelor’s Programme in Finance, you will have built a strong foundation for master’s and doctoral level studies. You will have the automatic right to continue to Aalto’s Master's Programme in Finance.
A degree in finance is a gateway to a high-impact career at the centre of financial decision-making. Your skills will be in high demand by companies across the finance, consulting, and business sectors in Finland and internationally.
You’ll be prepared to pursue roles in financial institutions like banks and asset management firms, consulting (business strategy, operations, financial advisory), or corporate finance functions like financial planning and analysis.
Your future role might include:
Finance research at Aalto revolves around financial decision-making and its implications for value creation, financial markets, and society. You can read more on the Department of Finance website.
This programme has close ties to the global finance industry. You’ll have the chance to work closely and build connections with companies and key people from the start of your studies through collaborative coursework, guest lectures, and events put on by student-led organisations like Aalto Finance.
You can also select courses from other Aalto schools or partner universities through your minor, elective, and international exchange studies, allowing you to customise your degree to suit your interests and career goals.
With the Vuolteenaho scholarship, School of Business alumni Tuomo and Tarja Vuolteenaho support our talented students’ academic excellence and international opportunities
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