The MSc Economics and Management programme is a specialist multidisciplinary degree located in the Department of Management, and taught in conjunction with the Department of Economics.
The degree is aimed at students with a strong analytical background who wish to combine economics at the Masters level with analytical courses in the management area. The programme is built around a central core course entitled "Firms and Markets" which uses graduate level microeconomics with a focus on understanding firm's market strategies. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of this course in both developing analytical skills and in showing how these analytical skills can be deployed in practical strategic settings. Building on this foundation, graduates will be well equipped to go either to PhD level study or to employment opportunities in industry, finance and consulting.
Key features of the programme
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10 month specialist multidisciplinary degree taught in conjunction with the Department of Economics
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Taught by some of the world's leading economists in their respective fields
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Combines the same level of analytical training as the MSc Economics degree with the more applied scope and coverage characteristic of masters' degrees in management or business schools
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Built around a central core course entitled Firms and Markets which uses graduate level microeconomics with a focus on understanding firm's market strategies.
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Contains a two part applied Econometrics course which develops student's understanding of econometric methods and their applications, as well as covering new developments in the use of econometrics methods within the industrial organisation field
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Students are required to take a course in Corporate Finance in the first term, and they have the option of continuing with Corporate Finance in the second term
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A further list of options is available in the second term which build directly on analytical tools developed in the Firms and Markets course.
Who is this course designed for?
The programme is aimed at students with a strong analytical background who wish to combine economics at masters level with analytical courses in the management area. For most British students, you should have concentrated exclusively in your first degree on economics and quantitative subjects (not business studies), with standard courses in intermediate macroeconomics and microeconomics, and a number of advanced courses that use these as prerequisites. You should have a solid quantitative background with at least a year of calculus and statistics and should, for instance, know how to handle maximisation of a function of several variables subject to constraint, and be able to explain what is meant by an efficient estimator.
What career options are open to someone with this degree?
The course has been designed with potential employers in mind. Students can reasonably aspire to find good employment opportunities in business, consultancy and finance.
Admissions requirements
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1st class bachelors degree or equivalent in Economics
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Graduates of non-UK institutions are required to submit a GRE or GMAT score. GRE is preferred. Please see the class profiles page for an indication of the scores expected.
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English requirement: Higher