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Standard period of study: : 4 semesters, full-time
Start: Fall term
Degree title: Master of Science
Master of Science Economics
Contact details
Content: Students taking the Economics major on the Master of Science in Economics programme must gain a total of 72 credits. The major consists of core courses and fields.
The core courses are subdivided into “Core courses: Basics” and “Core courses: Method-oriented and research-oriented” and cover microeconomics, macroeconomics, statistics, econometrics and mathematics.
Students can choose to take only method-oriented and research-oriented core courses by way
of preparation for a doctorate (this option is similar to the first year of a PhD programme).
However, they are also free to choose between core courses and fields, which means they can
focus on application-oriented areas. To do this, they take the “Core courses: Basics” and substitute specific topics with particularly relevant method-oriented and research-oriented courses.
The specialist fields allow students to study a number of the following in more depth: Economic Design and Behaviour, Markets and Institutions, Macroeconomics, Money and Financial
Markets, Macroeconomics, Growth and Inequality, Public Economics und Statistics and Econometrics.
As students are largely free to choose the subjects they wish to concentrate on, they can opt
to focus on different areas within and between fields, in line with the career they’re aiming for.
WiSo Student Services
Meister-Ekkehart-Str. 1
D-50937 Cologne
Tel.: +49 (0) 221/470-8818
e-mail: [email protected]
www.wiso.uni-koeln.de/wiso-sbz.html
Unrivalled choice of subjects
Students have almost unlimited choice when it comes to their minor, giving them another
opportunity to concentrate on a specific subject by digging deeper into it and specialising or by
opting to diversify. More than 30 minors from all of the disciplines covered by the WiSo Faculty
are currently available.
International
Entry requirements
A Bachelor’s or equivalent degree. The degree must be worth at least 180 ECTS credits.
For detailed admission requirements, please read the information on the WiSo Faculty’s website
at: www.wiso.uni-koeln.de/master.html
Deadlines
15 June
Deadline for all applications
Please note the separate application deadlines and procedures for the CEMS Master’s in International Management.
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Whilst on the Master’s programme, you can also gather extra international experience within
the Study Abroad Programme (STAP), at summer schools, on other short programmes and on
study tours. Or perhaps you’d like to find out more about the CEMS Master’s in International
Management (run by CEMS – the Global Alliance in Management Education), which Cologne
University is the only German university to offer. Or how about our superb Double Master programmes with the Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki (Finland), the Louvain School
of Management in Louvain (Belgium) and the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland).
To find out more, visit: www.wiso.uni-koeln.de/international.html