MSc in Finance

Bocconi’s MSc in Finance is a two-year, English-taught specialist finance master’s in Milan, placed 26th worldwide in the Financial Times ranking Bocconi cites for 2026 and 6th in Europe for Accounting and Finance in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026.¹ It is a separate degree from the MSc in International Management, which is the Bocconi programme ranked in the FT Masters in Management table.

Overview

Two years, taught in English, at Bocconi’s downtown Milan campus.¹ The distinguishing feature against most of the French and British finance master’s on this site is structural rather than academic: Bocconi is an Italian private university operating under Italian fee law, so what you pay depends on your family’s financial position, not on a single published sticker.

Class Profile

Bocconi publishes no class size and no cohort demographics for this programme, so none are stated here. The only cohort-shaping facts it publishes are the entry floors below.

Application & Deadlines

**A test is mandatory, and unusually, Bocconi publishes the floors.**³ It states that “a GMAT score is required for the selection process” and that an application is not evaluated without a GMAT, GRE or the online Bocconi test. The published minimums:

Bocconi publishes no class-average score, so a 500 floor is a floor and not a target.

The application calendar that opens on 1 October 2026 runs four dated rounds — 1–29 October 2026, 30 October to 20 January 2027, 27 January to 11 March 2027, and 12 March to 29 April 2027 — plus a Round V listed with no dates.⁴ The rounds serve Bocconi’s Master of Science portfolio as a whole rather than this programme alone, and the page does not label the intake year in text, so this profile identifies the calendar by its opening date rather than reproducing a label it cannot verify. You may name up to five programmes in a single application. If you are weighing a Master in Management alongside it, compare every European MiM round on our interactive deadlines timeline (it tracks the Master in Management, not this programme).

Tuition, Scholarships & Funding

€18,550 a year is the 2026-27 maximum for a first-year Master of Science student — about €37,100 across the two years, which is what this profile sorts on.² It is the latest table Bocconi publishes: there is no 2027-28 schedule, so anyone applying through the rounds that open in October 2026 should treat this as a floor rather than a quote.

But the maximum is the wrong number for many applicants. Tuition is income-modulated, and the Bocconi4Access to Education grant applies partial waivers of 20% or 60%:

Bocconi states that the first installment includes the registration fee, regional tax, fixed stamp duties and administrative fees, and that amounts are adjusted for inflation across the degree’s legal duration. Read the waiver bands before comparing this against a fixed-fee French or British programme — the comparison is not like for like.

Career Outcomes

Bocconi publishes employment but no salary figure, so this profile states none.¹ What it does report: 82.7% employed on graduation day, 94.9% employed one year after graduation, and 60.8% of graduates working abroad — the last of which is high for an Italian programme and is the number most worth weighing if you are choosing Milan for an international career rather than an Italian one.

Campus & Life

The MSc in Finance is taught at Bocconi’s Milan campus, in the city that is Italy’s financial centre and hosts the Borsa Italiana. Bocconi was founded in 1902 and its finance and economics faculties are the strongest-ranked part of the university internationally. Applicants weighing this against Bocconi’s generalist route should read the MSc in International Management profile beside it — the two differ in ranking table, length of specialisation and career destination, though they share the same fee law and the same admissions calendar.