The University of Leicester is one of a select group of international universities to receive accreditation from the professional body for chartered financial analysts.

The University is recognized as a CFA Programme Partner Institution and is one of only seven universities in the UK to have gained Partner status for a course that is highly valued by employers.

“The CFA Programme sets a standard for developing the skills, standards, competence, and integrity of financial analysts, portfolio managers, investment advisers, and other investment professionals worldwide. It is widely considered the investment profession’s most rigorous credentialing programme. Administered in English, the CFA curriculum and examinations are identical worldwide. Fewer than one in five candidates who begin the programme successfully complete it and go on to earn the coveted CFA charter, the “gold standard” for investment professionals.”

About CFA Institute

CFA Institute is the global, non-profit professional association that administers the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) curriculum and examination programme worldwide, publishes research, conducts professional development programmes, and sets voluntary, ethics-based professional and performance reporting standards for the investment industry.

CFA Institute has more than 100,000 members in over 130 countries and territories, including the world’s 92,000 CFA charterholders, as well as 135 affiliated professional societies in 58 countries and territories. CFA Institute is headquartered in the USA in Charlottesville, Virginia, with regional headquarters in London, Hong Kong, and New York. More information may be found at www.cfainstitute.org. (Bloomberg users can find CFA Institute at 497458Z).

Other Partner institutions include: American University of Sharjah (Sharjah, UAE), Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), Boston University (Boston, Mass., USA), Universidad del CEMA (Buenos Aires, Argentina), University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA), Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Creighton University (Omaha, Neb., USA), University of Exeter (Exeter, U.K.), Hautes Etudies Commerciales (HEC) (Paris, France), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong), London Business School (London, U.K.), Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wis., USA), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C., USA), University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa), ICMA Centre, University of Reading (Reading, U.K.), Reims Management School (Reims, France), University of Richmond (Richmond, Va., USA), Universidad de San Andres (Buenos Aires, Argentina), University of San Francisco (San Francisco, Calif., USA), Universite de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada), University of Warwick (Coventry, U.K.), University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, Wis., USA), and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Va., USA).