Finance, Banking and Investments The Technical University of Kosice (TUKE)

Overview

The graduate is ready to know and use appropriate methods and analytical tools after starting a job.

The Finance, Banking and Investments programme from The Technical University of Kosice (TUKE) is based on an individual approach to the student and on the principle of student independence.

Learning goals

The aim of the study programme Finance, banking and investing is to prepare highly qualified experts for practical application in the field of operations of banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions, but also in the field of public finance and corporate practice. The educational objectives are: 

• to provide students with a high-quality education of the 1st level of higher education (EKR/NKR/SKKR level 6), which includes basic knowledge in the field of business economics and standard economic subjects. It also includes some specialized knowledge of finance, banking and investing, through completion of profile compulsory and compulsory optional subjects with current content, taught through modern teaching methods. At this level of study, it is general knowledge as well as professional and methodological knowledge, serving as a basis for innovation and originality in practice. 

• develop and support students; abilities and skills. On the basis of the provided knowledge, give students the opportunity to acquire abilities and skills. Cognitive skills - to propose and evaluate solutions to methodological, professional and practical problems from the areas of business economics as well as specialized areas of finance, banking and investment by mastering and using methods of quantification, model simulation and verification, as well as practical skills - to implement and evaluate solutions to professional, practical or scientific problems, create implementation projects and evaluation procedures for activities from the field, formulate recommendations for the development of the given area. 

• regularly monitor and set all parameters and attributes of the SP, communicate with practice in order to update the requirements for graduates so that, after obtaining a modern and high-quality education, graduates have the competencies that allow them to creatively assess the basic economic and financial contexts of the economy of countries, sectors and companies, act and make decisions on the basis of knowledge of broad socio-economic contexts with a high degree of independence and foresight in known and unknown environments, with initiative and responsibility for managing the work of a work team, with the application of innovative and creative thinking and professional presentation of the results of one´s own studies or practice. 

• enable the flexibility of learning trajectories and the achievement of educational outcomes by providing different paths of personal profiling, give students the opportunity to obtain advanced expertise in a selected narrower field of knowledge - the possibility of specialization: analyst of international financial institutions, data and quantitative economics, financial analyst, company information systems specialist.