Your future
As a Marketing-Finance graduate, you will be in possession of a unique and valuable qualification. Most companies have marketing and finance departments that are still distinct from one another and have a hard time communicating and interacting with each other. Your deep understanding of both fields will open up career opportunities for you in marketing, financial services, consulting, and management, with plenty of opportunities for advancement. Your ability to understand financial and consumer theory and translate it into added value will make you an asset in both the private and public sectors.
Career prospects
Your degree will make you an ideal candidate to work in a variety of organisations, including:
- multinationals (in a marketing, finance, or boundary spanning function)
- banks
- brokerage firms
- insurance companies
- financial services firms
- management consulting firms
- market research companies and institutes
- European institutions
Our graduates have found positions such as:
- Investment banker at JP Morgan
- Marketing/product manager at Proctor & Gamble
- Financial Analyst at Henkel
- Project Manager at Aegon
- Product Manager at Nationale-Nederlanden
- Relationship Manager at Credit Suisse
- Consumer & Market Insight Specialist at L'Oréal
- Financial Services Consultant at PwC
- Management Consultant at Accenture
In this section, we present the average employability data for all programmes of the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (Alumni survey from 2024). In our latest survey, 78,0% of our graduates indicated they would choose the same study programme again! For detailed information per programme, please see the bottom of this page.
Employment rate
| After 1,5 years | After 5 years | After 10 years |
| 97,5% | 98,2% | 100,0% |
Median gross monthly income
| After 1,5 years | After 5 years | After 10 years |
| € 3.300,00 | € 5.000,00 | € 6.300,00 |
Working location of our alumni 1,5 years after graduation
| Country | % |
| the Netherlands | 45,2% |
| Germany | 28,5% |
| Belgium | 10,0% |
| Other EU country | 8,8% |
| Outside of the EU | 7,5% |
Average employability data 5 years after graduation per programme
Please note that some programmes did not have enough responses to allow a satisfactory result and are therefore not included in this list.
MSc programme | % employed | Median gross monthly income | Would choose same programme again |
| Econometrics and Operations Research | 100% | € 3.665,00
| 81% |
| Economics | 100% | € 3.700,00 | 75% |
| Financial Economics | 100% | € 5.500,00 | 62% |
| International Business (all specialisations) | 98% | € 5.000,00 | 76% |
| Learning and Development in Organisations | 95% | € 4.000,00 | 90% |
| Global Supply Chain Management and Change | 100% | € 5.100,00 | 90% |
| Sustainability Science, Policy and Society | 100% | € 4.000,00 | 80% |
| Public Policy and Human Development | 97% | € 4.400,00 | 86% |