Compare 3 MScs in Microeconomics

The business world is becoming increasingly internationalised. Today, this goes not only for major conglomerates, but for many small and medium-sized companies as well. This development often challenges the current understanding of business economics and language skills. This programme enables you to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. You will obtain solid language skills in addition to a comprehensive knowledge of business economics, in a global as well as a regional context. Here, students of many different nationalities study alongside Danish students, creating a truly international atmosphere on campus.StructureThe programme addresses all of the basic subject areas of Business Administration, i.e. courses developed at university level in Organisation, Corporate Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Business Law, Business IT, Statistics as well as Micro- and Macro-economics. In addition, the programme offers specialised courses on a range of international, European, and regional topics. During the third year, students have the opportunity to choose a company internship or a semester abroad, by taking advantage of our extensive network of partner institutions. The programme ends with a Bachelor’s project during the sixth semester. This offers you the opportunity – usually in collaboration with a business or an organization – to put into practice the knowledge you have acquired. The project therefore makes it possible for you to specialise in one of the subjects or one of the areas you have become particularly interested in during your study. ... [-]

GCU's MSc Social Business and Microfinance is the first of its kind in the world.

Social business is a cause driven business, which aims to impact on people or the planet, rather than for the accumulation of profits to shareholders or investors. While the benefits of a socially enterprising world are well documented, every social business journey is unique, and the impact of microfinance is still emerging.

Evolving this practice further, the MSc Social Business and Microfinance from Glasgow Caledonian University shares its home with the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health - GCU's world-leading research centre - and is delivered by the award-winning Glasgow School for Business and Society*.... [-]

Limited access to financial services, or financial exclusion, is a challenging reality for an important share of the world’s population in both developing and developed countries. Financial exclusion is highly linked with poverty and it exacerbates situations of social exclusion. Public and international aid institutions have shown their limits in alleviating poverty. On the contrary, social innovations, such as the microfinance movement, provide market-based solutions to fight poverty and social exclusion by improving access to financial services. These social innovations are one of the main focus of this MSc.

Our MSc course is designed to teach responsible finance concepts, principles and framework in the context of the traditional component of MSc in Finance such as financial markets, corporate governance, risk management, etc.. Our MSc is also built at the same time to provide with the fundamental economic and financial skills required to strengthen participants’ skills in banking and financial activities. Knowledge is applied to different financial products and is aimed at aligning investors´ financial objectives with the social responsibility concern and challenge.... [-]