NOVA Information Management School

PostGraduate Risk Analysis and Management

Cycle

Curso de Pós-graduação

Degree

Not awarded

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Education objectives

The postgraduate program in Risk Analysis and Management aims to train technical and management staff to be able to identify, quantify and manage the risks of institutions (whether financial or not).

The program aims to train staff of financial institutions or of a different nature, enabling them to make decisions, according to the capital requirements established by Solvency II and Basel III.

It is aimed at managers of financial and non-financial companies as well as other professionals with duties of risk management in organizations. It is especially for financial analysts, financial controllers, auditors, chartered accountants, among others.

The goal of this program is to train technical staff and managers to:

- Become familiar with operations and products that are part of the activity of financial institutions;

- Identify and quantify risks associated with financial institutions;

- Manage various current risks in institutions; 

- Take decisions based on quantifying techniques of economic value;

- Manage the new European solvency systems for banking and insurance in a balanced way.

Applications - academic year 2017/2018
To complete the application, the applicant must register in NOVA IMS' Applications Portal, fill the form, upload their Curriculum Vitae and submit the application in the end, from April 4th to May 11th, 2017. The selection process is based on the analysis of the applicant's academic and professional curriculum, and an interview.

Access conditions

The requirements for the applications are: a degree in a compatible field; analysis of the applicants' academic and professional curriculum; and an interview conducted by the Admissions' Jury Panel.

Degree pre-requisites

To earn the postgraduate program diploma in Risk Analysis and Management, students complete 8 course units, of which 5 are mandatory and the 3 elective course units will be chosen by the students from a wide range of available course units. 

Access to other courses

The postgraduate program gives access to the master degree program in Statistics and Information Management, with a specialization in Risk Analysis and Management, upon the development and presentation of a scholarly thesis, or work project or undertake an internship (subject of a final report) and the approval of the course unit Research Methodologies. 

The Master degree program in Statistics and Information Management, with a specialization in Risk Analysis and Management, is ranked as the best master degree program in Insurance in Portugal, the 2nd in Europe and the 4th in the World by Eduniversaly Eduniversal, international agency that publishes an annual ranking of the best Master degree programs and MBA in the world.

Evaluation rules

Structure

1º year - Autumn semester
Code Name ECTS
200101 Banking and Insurance Operation 7.5
200104 Principles of Financial Management 7.5
200129 Value Quantification Technics 7.5
Options
200001 Data Analysis 7.5
200009 Spatial Databases 7.5
200012 Business Intelligence I 7.5
200016 Cartographic Sciences 7.5
200026 Data Mining I 7.5
200032 DataBase Management Systems 7.5
200046 Statistics 7.5
200048 Marketing Strategy and Consumer Behaviour 7.5
200058 Geographic Information Systems Applications 7.5
200060 Geospatial Data Mining 7.5
200064 Geostatistics 7.5
200068 Information Project Management 7.5
200070 Information Technologies Services Management 7.5
200071 Knowledge Management 7.5
200073 Information Systems Management 7.5
200083 Marketing Digital 7.5
200087 Data Collection Methods 7.5
200089 Survey Methods 7.5
200092 Quantitative Methods for Marketing - Descriptive Methods 7.5
200101 Banking and Insurance Operation 7.5
200115 Remote Sensing 7.5
200139 Web Marketing and E-Commerce 7.5
400020 Information Systems Governance 7.5
400029 Web Analytics 7.5
400045 Sustainable Cities 7.5
400054 Information Technology in Cities Seminar I 3.5
1º year - Spring semester
Code Name ECTS
200069 Risk Management 7.5
200097 Solvency Models 7.5
Options
200007 Architectures for Information Technology 7.5
200013 Business Intelligence II 7.5
200014 Business Process Management 7.5
200024 Geospatial Data Mining 7.5
200028 Data Mining II 7.5
200049 Market Research 7.5
200061 Geospatial Free Open Source Software 4.0
200065 Customer Satisfacion and Loyalty Management 7.5
200067 Marketing Management 7.5
200072 Customer Relationship Management 7.5
200085 Experiential Marketing 7.5
200088 Forecasting Methods 7.5
200090 Econometrics Methods 7.5
200093 Quantitative Methods for Marketing - explanatory methods 7.5
200094 Geographical Information Systems and Modelling 7.5
200121 Decision Support Systems 7.5
200124 Geographical Information Systems in Organizations 7.5
200145 Big Data Applications 7.5
200146 Innovation Management and Design Thinking 7.5
400010 Data Collection, Administrative Sources and Big Data 6.0
400019 Customer Relationship Management Systems 7.5
400023 Leadership and People Management 6.0
400027 Search Engine Marketing 7.5
400028 Social Media Intelligence 7.5
400039 Integrated Management Solutions 7.5
400040 Enterprise Mobility Solutions 7.5
400042 Business Solutions as a Service 7.5
400046 City Analytics 7.5
400049 Information Technology in Cities Seminar II 4.0
400051 Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing 7.5
400055 Enterprise Resource Management Systems 7.5