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CBI - Certificate of Banking and Insurance


The program is designed to prepare students for their first assignment in the banking, insurance and finance industry. It lasts one semester and represents 30 ECTS.


An important part of the course is dedicated to exercises, case studies and an investment game, close to professional life.


Students attend classes from Monday to Friday, in average six lectures per day. This is completed by readings and other homework.


The course includes visits to banks, financial institutions and insurance companies to provide life inside into professional organizations. Guest speakers add value to this visits by presenting and discussing practical cases or by organizing simulated "real cases". Guest speakers are also invited to give talks to the students at the end of the CBI course by sharing their experience.


The teachers are professionals in the finance area. They hold mainly PhD‘s and have long time experience as senior managers in financial institutes, in MNCs or in the state administration.

After each module students have time to revise the topics and to pass related exams.


At the end of the semester students establish in groups a final thesis. Topics of the thesis are proposed by teachers and students.


The CBI certificate is granted if the average of all courses and thesis is at minimum C-Level.

 

  

Summer Courses


On demand, the institute organizes summer courses during the month of July. During this short period of just one months the major topics of the CBI course are presented in a sort of crash course where the theory is condensed and much time is spent on practical cases.