Business Administration - Financial Services Management

Overview

Business Administration - Financial Services Management looks at the different branches of banking: Insurance, Financial Advice, Investment. Financial systems and regulations imposed by different countries are illustrated, analysed and compared.

Through combining theoretical perspectives with case studies from practice, the programme aims to allow students to develop a critical and contextualised understanding of the issues, problems and solutions faced by and offered to financial services institutions worldwide. Students at the Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences will learn to understand the function of financial services within a wider economic context, also from the perspective of developing countries.

Career Prospects

Financial Services specialists work in various branches of varying sizes, from corporate banks and insurance companies to SME companies advising home owners and private investors on matters relating to their personal finance.

Financial advisors are affiliated to most real-estate brokers and law firms and many Wittenborg Financial Services Management graduates have gone on to work in international banks such as HSBC in Shanghai, Commercial Bank of China in Beijing, RaboBank Netherlands in Utrecht and ABN AMRO in Rotterdam.

Also, many students have also gone on to work for mortgage, investment and insurance companies such as Nationale Nederland, Achmea, and AON Consulting. A number of students have started their own consultancies.