08.02.2026
Master's Programme in Banking and Finance
An update of the Study Guide for the academic year 2025/26 is available:
>> Download Study Guide (Version: 06.03.2026)
07.01.2026
Summer School in Finance
The 5th WU summer school will take place from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The overarching theme is endowment management and long-term investing, with this year’s focus on time-series and cross-sectional predictability of stock returns and its implications for asset management. The academic program will be taught by Prof. Alberto Rossi (Georgetown University).
Thanks to generous funding from the Engelbert Dockner Foundation, there is no tuition fee.
The target group consists of highly motivated students with a strong background in finance who have completed a bachelor’s degree and are currently enrolled in a master’s program.
Please find further information and the application form at WU Summer School in Finance.
20.11.2025
UK Contract Theory
The UK Contract Theory course will only be offered again in the summer semester of 2027.
In the upcoming summer semester 2026 the course KU Contracts and Organizations (8 ECTS) can be taken as an equivalent for this course plus an additional elective in the modules B.1.b.i, ii, B.1.c, B.1.d, B.2.c.i, ii, iii, B.2.d.
30.06.2022
New admission requirements for the master's programme in Banking and Finance from the academic year 2022/23
Applicants for admission have to prove the following knowledge and qualifications as qualitative admission requirements:
- Prior training in the fields of business administration, economics, mathematics and statistics comprising 30 ECTS credits, of which at least 8 ECTS credits must have been acquired in courses in mathematics and statistics.
- Command of English corresponding to at least the B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Regarding the proof of the language level the regulations of the University of Vienna apply.
- Achivement of at least
- 44 points in the "Quantitative Section" of the Graduate Management Admission Tests (GMAT)
or - 154 points in the section "Quantitative Reasoning" of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test
- 44 points in the "Quantitative Section" of the Graduate Management Admission Tests (GMAT)
Graduates from the following bachelor's degree programmes at the University of Vienna fulfill the qualitative admission requirements in item 1:
- Business Administration
- Business Informatics
- Computer Science
- Economics
- International Business Administration
- Mathematics
- Statistics
The requirements in item 1 are also fulfilled by completing the extension curricula
- Basics of Economics
and - Quantitative Basics of Economics
at the University of Vienna.