MSc in Economics

Academic-year programme. Students must take three compulsory courses, one unit of optional courses and a dissertation linked to the optional course as shown. Students are also required to attend EC400 Introductory Course in Mathematics and Statistics. 

Paper

Course number and title

1

EC413

Macroeconomics

2

EC411

Microeconomics or

EC487

Advanced Microeconomics †

3

EC402

Econometrics

4

Courses to the value of one full unit (including a 6000-word dissertation to be submitted by the beginning of the summer term)

 

EC421

International Economics

EC423

Labour Economics

EC424

Monetary Economics

EC426

Public Economics

EC427

Economics of Industry

EC428

Development and Growth

EC453

Political Economy

EC476

Contracts and Organisations

FM431M

Corporate Finance A (H) and FM4T2 Applied Corporate Finance - Dissertation (H) or FM4T3 Corporate Finance Theory - Dissertation (H) *

FM429

Asset Markets A (H) and FM4T1 Forecasting Financial Time Series - Dissertation (H) or FM4U1 Fixed Income Markets - Dissertation (H) or FM4T5 Portfolio Management - Dissertation (H) *

 

Any other course in Economics approved by the candidate's teachers. Such approval will only be given in exceptional circumstances.

Notes

† Students must obtain the permission of the course proprietor.

* For the purposes of degree classification the Finance half unit courses are combined and averaged to produce a final mark.