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• The financial crisis of 2008 has partially originated from poorly regulated, risky financial instruments.
• To avoid such crises in the future, financial and regulatory institutions need experts trained in both accounting and finance. 
• Combining analytical skills in financial risk management with professional knowledge in internal and external accounting, the M.Sc. Accounting and Finance features an integrated analytical approach to graduate education in these fields.
• Other than for the difficult task of regulating financial markets, knowledge taught in this program is of great importance in several fields of business that rely on risk management and an understanding of how incentives determine managers’ behavior in both financial and non-financial firms.
• However, the scope of the program reaches far beyond the limits of these two fields of business.
• Students who enroll in this program may specialize in either Accounting or Finance through advanced field courses or alternatively choose a more balanced portfolio of courses in both fields.
• Other courses focus on institutional aspects pertaining to Corporate Governance and Auditing. Importantly, the program includes theory and application of empirical methods as employed in the practice of Empirical Banking or in institutions aiming at international financial stability.

Specializations:

• Continous-Time Derivatives Pricing
• Advanced Corporate Finance or
• Managerial Accounting
• Corporate Governance and Auditing
• Managing Corporate Taxation
• Advanced Time Series Analysis
• Empirical Banking

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• Admission to the M. Sc. in Accounting and Finance requires a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Economics with excellent grades
• , preferably a degree that amounts to 210 ECTS credits.
•  Students entering with a 3-year Bachelor’s degree (amounting to 180 ECTS credits) are required to earn 30 additional ECTS credits in order to obtain a Master’s degree.
•  Applicants are expected to have solid intermediate level knowledge in Accounting, Finance and Quantitative Methods (Math and Statistics).

• Applicants must be fluent in both English and German.
• Foreign applicants must demonstrate their abiliy to study in German by submitting one of the following two certificates: DSH-2 or TestDaF 4*4*4*4. Applicants with a German Bachelor Degree do not need to provide proof of their German language skills.

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Application deadline for Germans and EU citizens  
Winter semester: 15.05

Application deadline for non-EU citizens
Winter semester: 15.05

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• The University of Tübingen is boosting research and development into science communication by establishing a specialist research center.
• “Over recent years, the dialog in scientific policy has focused on the issue of how universities and research institutes can not only produce excellent science but also convey this to society more effectively,” says president of the university, Professor Karla Pollmann. “
• It has become extremely clear that science communication is itself becoming an increasingly important field of research, and the University of Tübingen wants to play a key part in this.”
•  The research center has been founded in response to these developments.
• Olaf Kramer, Professor of Rhetoric and Knowledge Communication at the University of Tübingen’s Department of General Rhetoric is the director of the center.
• “Research often gives rise to social resistance – whether relating to artificial intelligence, vaccination or climate change,” explains Kramer, “One outcome of the corona pandemic was definitely the knowledge of how important science communication is.
• ” The new center’s cooperation partners include the university’s Institute of Media Studies (IfM) and the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology (HIB), as well as the Leibniz-Institute for Knowledge Media (IWM) as an external partner.
• “Science is communicated via an increasing number of channels,” says Kramer. “Only a center with an interdisciplinary approach can analyze and present the numerous ways and effects of science communication.”
•  While corporate communication and marketing have been researched in depth for decades, science communication is still a new field of research.
•  “Tübingen can draw on outstanding researchers in every field that is relevant here – from educational research through computer science, cognitive and media studies, to psychology and rhetoric,” stresses Kramer.
• Rhetoric at Tübingen has already launched many research and practical science communication projects in recent years, and the new research center will now build on these.
• For instance, the RHET AI project is currently researching among other things the public discourse on artificial intelligence and its presentation in the media, and has set up a national dialog to ask citizens what they think are the risks and opportunities of this technology, and their concerns and expectations.
• Cooperation partners include the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Excellence Cluster Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science, and Cyber Valley.
• At the Department of General Rhetoric, the Presentation Skills Research Center, supported by Heidelberg’s Klaus Tschira Foundation, has trialed innovative forms of science communication in numerous projects since 2011.
•  The national competition ‘Jugend präsentiert’, for example, trains school pupils in how to pass on scientific knowledge.
• The journal Science Notes reports not only on results from science, but also on the processes involved.
•  The publication arose from a series of brief scientific lectures with the same title, that are presented to a background of electronic music in clubs in Berlin, Hamburg, Tübingen and other cities.
• The new research center will also train Tübingen scientists in how to present statistics and facts visually, and formulate research results comprehensibly. In addition, the current certificate program, Science Communication and Media Competence, is being expanded.