The Next Generation of Allocators Starts Here
Alternative investments aren’t a niche corner of finance anymore. They’re where capital is moving, where career paths are opening, and where the next generation of investment professionals will need real fluency.
The CAIA Academic Partnership program connects leading universities and students with the global network of alternative investment professionals. Through this collaborative relationship, institutions gain access to CAIA’s extensive resources, research, and industry connections, helping shape the next generation of investment leaders.
Meet Our Academic Partners
In support of our mission, to provide access to the most relevant, comprehensive alternative investments education, we offer CAIA exam scholarships to eligible individuals through our Academic Partner program.
Search for your university below:
Arizona
- University of Arizona — Eller College of Management
California
- Chapman University — Argyros School of Business & Economics
- University of California San Diego — Rady School of Management
- University of Southern California — Marshall School of Business
Colorado
- University of Colorado Boulder — Leeds School of Business
District of Columbia
- American University — Kogod School of Business
Florida
- Florida State University — Herbert Wertheim College of Business
Georgia
- Emory University — Goizueta Business School
Illinois
- DePaul University — Driehaus College of Business
Massachusetts
- Babson College
- Brandeis University — International Business School
- Clark University — School of Business
- Northeastern University — D’Amore-McKim School of Business
- University of Massachusetts Amherst — Isenberg School of Management
Missouri
New York
- Fordham University — Gabelli School of Business
North Carolina
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Kenan-Flagler Business School
Ohio
- The Ohio State University — Fisher College of Business
Oklahoma
- University of Oklahoma — Price College of Business
Pennsylvania
- Penn State Behrend — Black School of Business
- Villanova University — School of Business
Rhode Island
Utah
- University of Utah — David Eccles School of Business
Canada
- University of Toronto
- HEC Montréal
- Queen’s University — Smith School of Business
- Université Laval — Faculty of Business Administration
France
Germany
Ireland
- Trinity College Dublin
- University College Cork — College of Business & Law
Italy
- Bocconi University — SDA Bocconi School of Management
- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Netherlands
- Erasmus University Rotterdam — Rotterdam School of Management
- University of Amsterdam — Amsterdam Business School
Poland
- Kozminski University — International Business School
Portugal
- University of Lisbon — ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management
Spain
- IE Business School
- Universidad Carlos III de Madrid — Graduate School of Business
Switzerland
- FHNW — Master of Science in Finance
- University of Geneva — Geneva School of Economics and Management
- University of Lausanne — HEC Lausanne
- University of St. Gallen — HSG Business School
United Kingdom
- University of York
- City St George’s University of London — Bayes Business School
- Coventry University
- University of Glasgow
- University of Liverpool
Kuwait
South Africa
- University of Cape Town
- University of Johannesburg — College of Business and Economics
United Arab Emirates
- American University of Sharjah — School of Business Administration
- Middlesex University Dubai
Australia
- Griffith University — Griffith Business School
- Macquarie University — Graduate School of Management
- Swinburne University of Technology
- University of Technology Sydney
Hong Kong
- Chinese University of Hong Kong — CUHK Business School
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — HKUST Business School
- University of Hong Kong — HKU Business School
Japan
- Tokyo University of Science
- Waseda University — Graduate School of Business and Finance
Nepal
Singapore
- Nanyang Technological University — Nanyang Business School
- Singapore Management University — Lee Kong Chian School of Business
- Singapore University of Social Sciences
South Korea
- Seoul National University — College of Business Administration
- KAIST — College of Business
- Korea University
Not seeing your university?
Faculty: Submit the Academic Partner interest form to explore bringing CAIA to your university.
Students: Contact our Academic Partner team to learn about available scholarship opportunities.
The Industry is Moving. Education Should Too.
The future of investing starts in the classroom. CAIA partners with universities to bring the knowledge, language, and standards of alternative investing into students’ education, preparing them for the industry they are entering.
75+
Partner Institutions
30+ Countries
Global Academic Presence
75%
Scholarship Exam Discount
14,000+
CAIA Members Worldwide