Master in Accounting and Corporate Finance (MACFin)

The Master's programme in Accounting and Corporate Finance (MACFin) offers a comprehensive perspective on financial corporate management. The MACFin combines theoretical knowledge with practical approaches and imparts a solid understanding in the areas of corporate finance, business valuation, accounting, controlling, and taxation.

The MACFin programme is distinguished by its strong connection to business practice: Current and relevant issues with case-based solutions play a crucial role, as do renowned guest speakers and close collaboration with selected companies. We aim to foster your entrepreneurial thinking and guide you on the path to becoming reflective, capable professionals. The MACFin thus creates optimal conditions for a successful start to your career.

You choose your areas of focus. Besides a few mandatory courses, we offer a wide range of electives, allowing you to plan your studies with flexibility in terms of content, themes, and timing.
Our MACFin program...

• Provides you with a comprehensive understanding of financial management within a company
• Addresses the current and future challenges from a financial perspective
• Pursues an integrated approach to all relevant aspects of modern financial management
• Requires and fosters interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in Accounting, Corporate Finance, Auditing, and Tax & Legal
• Particularly enhances individual and team-based problem-solving and communication skills in finance-related issues within the context of a business organization

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Do you aspire to drive a company's financial development sustainably? Do you want to underpin strategic growth opportunities with key metrics, thereby sharpening your arguments? If so, you are a perfect fit for our target group.

As a MACFin student, you demonstrate a strong interest in the financial management topics from a CFO’s perspective. Your academic and practical curiosity enables you to not only understand concepts theoretically but also to question, critically assess, and adapt them appropriately to various contexts. Alongside your technical training, you will develop your analytical, communication, and teamwork skills, preparing you to take on leadership roles in a complex and volatile environment.

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We aim to equip you with the tools for an exciting and unique career. As a MACFin graduate, you will not only possess the necessary theoretical and conceptual foundations but also gain experience in practice-oriented project work, thought leadership, and the co-creation of solutions and decisions. This is something we highly value. As a result, MACFin graduates can be found in responsible positions in large and small companies across all continents. Many former MACFin students hold roles in finance, management consulting, line functions in industry, project work, or auditing. Some even create their own environment by becoming entrepreneurs and founding startups.

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• A recognized equivalent degree in a field that is the same or similar to Business Administration, with at least 180 credits.
• International students are admitted on a case-by-case basis ("sur dossier").
• Admission requirements (Integration Week or Master's Preparatory Stage) may be required.

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Our partners enhance the MACFin program by offering a comprehensive and integrative perspective on financial corporate management. The MACFin is the largest Master's program at the University of St.Gallen (HSG). Its key pillars are the high satisfaction of graduates, exceptional teaching evaluations, and strong connections with the business world. This popularity also drives significant interest from companies looking to position themselves as potential employers.

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