Brunei, a small oil-rich state on Borneo’s north coast, runs its financial sector under Islamic principles. Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital, is the country’s center for government, education, and banking.
The country’s main university, Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali (UNISSA), has a Faculty of Islamic Economics and Finance. The faculty was established in 2007 and renamed in 2016. It is the natural starting point for anyone considering Islamic finance study in Brunei, and prospective students should check its current programme list directly.
The original version of this article named a specific ‘Master’s in Islamic Banking and Finance’, claimed the global Islamic finance industry would reach 3.8 trillion dollars by 2023, and cited a 30 percent enrollment increase. The named degree and the statistics could not be verified, so they have been removed.
Related finance reading on this site includes the guides to Islamic finance in Kuala Lumpur, Islamic banking in Manama, and the overview of online master’s degrees in finance.

