CFA Institute Partnership Program
As part of your Esade MSc in Finance program, you’ll benefit from the school’s partnerships with leading industry organizations including CFA Institute and Bloomberg.
CFA Institute
CFA Institute is a global, not-for-profit organization comprising the world’s largest association of investment professionals. With over 100,000 members, CFA is dedicated to developing and promoting the highest educational, ethical, and professional standards in the investment industry.
The Esade Masters in Finance program is an official CFA® Program Partner. The classification recognizes its close ties to current best professional practices and its suitability as preparation for the CFA exams.
The CFA Program is widely considered the investment profession’s most rigorous credentialing program. Fewer than one in five candidates who begin the program successfully complete it and go on to earn the coveted CFA charter, the “gold standard” for investment professionals.
CFA Institute partners only with globally diverse, high-profile institutions that cover at least 70% of the CFA Program's Candidate Body of Knowledge™ and embrace the CFA Institute's Code of Ethics, and Standards of Professional Conduct.
CFA® is a registered trademark owned by CFA Institute
CFA Competitions – Join a Winning Team
Each year, Esade selects some MSc in Finance students to represent the school in national and international CFA competitions. In 2021, the Esade Team won for the fourth consecutive year the Spanish round of the CFA Institute Research Challenge – the world’s most prestigious financial analysis competition; in 2022, the Esade Team achieved the second place.
Bloomberg
Esade partners with Bloomberg L.P., the leading financial data and news provider, to offer the Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) completely free of charge on campus.
The BAT evaluates your abilities then helps you to anonymously market yourself to over 20,000 Bloomberg clients via the Bloomberg Talent Search.
Over 130,000 students have taken the BAT in over 1,000 universities around the world thus far. In the past six months, over 23,000 students have been contacted by employers to discuss job opportunities. As an added benefit, take the BAT test and get a free six-month subscription to Bloomberg Briefs, the company's premium specific-industry newsletter worth $2000.