Comprehensive and flexible program designed to equip the student with all the tools necessary for high quality research;

Flexible program with evening classes accommodating the needs of part time students;

Large faculty, holding doctoral degrees from several major European and North-American universities, with broad expertise in most areas of finance, including asset pricing, corporate finance, derivatives, and banking;

Access to the very best international databases: WRDS, CRSP, Compustat, Datastream, Worldscope, Reuters, Bloomberg;

Exposure to state-of-the-art research through a seminar series with speakers from the top European and North-American universities.

The Finance PhD Program at Iscte is a rigorous program designed to train students to produce high quality research.

The program is suited to students who want to become faculty members at research universities or who want to lead research departments at financial institutions.

During the first year, students take a broad sequence of courses in finance, economics and econometrics. After the first year, students work solely on their research.

Master the tools (Economic and Finance theory, econometric methods and others) necessary to conduct high quality research in Finance;

Know and comprehend in-depth several topics of research in Finance;

Contribute in an independent and innovative way to the research in a Finance topic. In all curricular units, these objectives are defined operationally and evaluated with the instruments deemed as the most adequate for each type of objective.