Specialisation stream
Finance
Corporate finance, investment analysis, financial markets, taxation, risk.
What it is good for
The most portable specialisation and the one with the clearest external qualifications to pair with.
How to compare it between universities
The core papers will be near-identical wherever you go. Compare programmes on this part: how many specialisation papers there are, what they are called, and when the syllabus was last revised.
An autonomous institute usually revises faster than a university, because it controls its own curriculum rather than routing changes through a board of studies.
A caution on the newest streams
Analytics and systems date fastest. A five-year-old analytics syllabus is a genuinely different product from a current one, and the difference will not be visible in the brochure.