| Enrolment
Information for Newcomer Students
The Department organizes a welcome day for newcomer students in which the Director of the Graduate Program along with the academic staff and the administrative staff provide useful information about the most effective use of the Department’s and University’s provided services. The discussion also includes information on the structure of the Graduate Program, the Regulation of the Department, the opportunities in the job market, the internship opportunities, as well as potential opportunities for PhD studies in Greece or overseas.
Nevertheless, the lines of communication remain open throughout the duration of the students’ enrolment.
Classes Attending Rules
The educational activity includes two semesters per academic year, the Fall semester, and the Spring semester. Each semester involves 13 weeks (or 39 hours). The academic calendar organized by the University of Piraeus is approved by the General Assembly of the Department of Banking and Financial Management. At the beginning of each semester the Department announces the analytical schedule which informs students on course titles, the instructors, the meeting hours, and other things.
Class attending is mandatory. If a class is missed for certain special reasons, the instructor must offer it on a different date. Students receive an electronic message from the Secretariat Office, while all relevant information is uploaded on the Department’s site.
Rights and Obligations for Students
Students’ rights
Graduate students share the same rights with those of the undergraduate students except the free access to textbooks. Handicapped students also share equal access to all the University’s sites.
Student’s obligations
Graduate students are required to attend research seminars, to visit corporations and other business entities, to attend conferences organized by research teams, scientific speeches and other educational activities.
Graduate students must also attend informatic seminars organized by the Library and in relevance to: strategic techniques of searching information sources, plagiarism seminars and thesis deposit methods to the university depository of DIONI.
Graduate students must:
- Attend all their classes, while the need to go early to their classroom and definitely prior to the commencement of this class. There is a maximum number of non-excused absences for each class (6 hours). If the students go over this number, there is high risk that the student fails this course. In cases that a number of certain non-excused absences can be justified due for example to health reasons, the General Assembly of the Department can erase this number.
- Obtain the necessary textbooks and papers necessary for the successful completion of the course.
- Submit their homework papers within the allowed period.
- Join the exams sites by showing their personal student ID.
- Satisfy all the necessary obligations in relevance to fees and other formal applications during the semester.
If graduate students fail to abide by the above obligations, then the Department may ask them to leave the Graduate Program.
The General Assembly of the Department can ask the students to leave the program under the following conditions:
- They go over the maximum allowed of non-excused absences (6 hours per course)
- They have not completed the requirements set for the successful completion of their studies,
- They go over the maximum allowed time duration for the successful completion of the program,
- They do take their 5th exam offered by a three-member Committee,
- They fail the above exam,
- They do not satisfy their obligations toward the Graduate Program,
- They show unacceptable behavior,
- They apply for their excuse from the program,
- They indicate a cheating behavior during their exams or plagiarism phenomena dusting their homework papers and/or theses,
- They violate the restrictions of copyrights (Law 2121/93),
- They do not pay their tuition fees.
All graduate students are obliged prior to their registration to get informed by the restrictions set by the program’s regulations.
Interruption of Enrolment
Graduate students are entitled to ask for the temporary or permanent interruption of their studies for certain significant reasons.
Moreover, the General Assembly of the Department can decide to erase the graduate students who are unable to satisfy their obligations towards the Graduate Program or for any other ethical misbehavior. More specifically, if:
- Students exceed the maximum time duration of their studies, as this is set by the Regulation of Graduate Studies,
- They fail to any exam organized by the three-member committee,
- They fail to satisfy their obligations toward the Graduate Program,
- They violate the principles of academic ethical code, such as plagiarism, cheating, inappropriate behavior.
Study Certificate
The Graduate Program awards the Diploma of Graduate Studies in Banking and Finance (Master of Science (M.Sc.) in «Banking and Finance») in the following specifications:
- «Banking and Financial Management»
- «Finance and Investments»
The Diploma is a public document written in the Greek language, signed by the Rector of the university, the Chair of the department and the Secretary of the department, while its type is determined by the Senate of the university.
The Graduate Program leads to the level 7 of studies, according to the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) and the National Qualifications Framework (NQF).
The structure of the Certification grading is as follows: from 5 to 6.49 as GOOD, from 6.50 to 8.49 as VERY GOOD, and from 8.50 to 10 as PERFECT.
The Diploma embeds the Appendix of the Diploma both in the Greek and in the English language, according to article 15 of Law 3374/2005 (FΕΚ 189, t.Α’) and the M.D. F5/89656/Β3/13-8-07 (FΕΚ 1466, t.Β’).