
MSc Economics
Canterbury, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 20,000 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Our programme offers small class sizes, ensuring personalised attention and fostering a vibrant, interactive environment where every student's voice is heard. The richness of our diverse student body enhances the fabric of discussions, bringing together varied perspectives and creating a dynamic intellectual community. The teaching faculty mirrors this diversity, with experts from various backgrounds dedicated to nurturing your academic growth. Recent graduates have been hired by companies in the UK such as BNP Paribas, AXA, FactSet and PwC.
Reasons to study Economics at Kent
- Study in a multicultural environment and build yourself an international professional network for the future.
- Develop your ability to apply economic knowledge, analytical tools and skills to a range of national and international problems in the areas of finance, development and the environment.
- Study in our new Sibson building, home to our economics community, with excellent facilities, ideal for teaching analytic tools.
- Learn from inspiring lecturers who advise UK, European and international organisations.
- Access the excellent research facilities in The Templeman Library.
- Be around a vibrant research community and work with them on your research dissertation.
- Students may opt for a co-delivery arrangement with BRAC University, Bangladesh, or North South University, Bangladesh, in which they are hosted by Brac / North-South and jointly supervised by academic staff members from Kent and Brac / North South University.
What you'll learn
Our MSc programme aims to provide a solid foundation in economic analysis while allowing students to specialise in their areas of interest. You gain advanced quantitative skills, a deep understanding of economic principles, and the ability to apply economic analysis to real-world problems. The course equips you with a versatile skill set, preparing you not only for independent research but also for a variety of roles in academia, research institutions, government, international organisations, and the private sector.
About the School of Economics
The School of Economics is dedicated to excellence in both teaching and research, as demonstrated by our results in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 and recent national student surveys. Our academic staff are active in research, and teaching and learning are informed by the School’s thriving research culture and strong cosmopolitan academic community.
We currently have 35 academic staff, with about 35-40 MSc and PhD students, which has the benefit of a good community for interaction between students but also means that each student receives a good deal of individual attention in classes and workshops. It also means that we can offer excellent research facilities.
Our postgraduate student community is global with many of the students originating from outside the UK and Europe. There are also several different nationalities represented within the academic staff. You will be able to integrate into this multicultural environment and build yourself an international professional network for the future.
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Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Scholarship value
The award covers tuition fees, return airfares and living costs for a one-year taught Master's programme.
Deadline
Deadline for Commonwealth application: - 12 December 2024.
Hold an unconditional offer (with the only outstanding condition, international fee deposit) of a programme of study from the University of Kent - 31 January 2025
Criteria
To be eligible to apply for this scholarship, candidates must:
- Hold an undergraduate degree at UK first-class level equivalent.
- Be a citizen of or have been granted refugee status by one of the eligible Commonwealth countries listed or be a British Protected Person.
- Be a permanent resident in one of the eligible Commonwealth countries listed above.
- To be committed to the University of Kent, you can apply for more than one course and/or to more than one University, but you may only accept one offer of a Shared Scholarship.
- Not have studied or worked for one (academic) year or more in a high-income country.
- Be unable to afford to study in the UK without this scholarship.
- Return to their home country as soon as their period of study is complete. In some circumstances, a student may be permitted to remain in the UK if seeing doctoral study and satisfy certain strict conditions.
- Hold an offer by the deadline for a full-time postgraduate taught degree on one of the eligible courses at the University of Kent:
- MSc Artificial Intelligence
- MSc Infectious Diseases
- MSc Cyber Security
- MA International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
- MSc Applied Actuarial Science
- MSc Conservation Science
- MA English and American Literature
Further details
Commonwealth Shared Scholarships, set up by DFID in 1986, represent a unique partnership between the United Kingdom government and UK Universities.
Funded by the UK Department of International Development (DFID), Commonwealth Shared Scholarships enable talented and motivated individuals to gain the knowledge and skills required for sustainable development. They are aimed at those who could not otherwise afford to study in the UK.
These scholarships are offered under six themes:
- Science and technology for development
- Strengthening health systems and capacity
- Promoting global prosperity
- Strengthening global peace, security and governance
- Strengthening resilience and response to crises - Access, inclusion and opportunity.
How to apply
To be considered for the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship you must:
- Make a formal application for a postgraduate degree at the University of Kent commencing September 2025/26. This can be done online here.
- Complete the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) online application process. For information on how to do that and full details of the application process please go directly to the Commonwealth Scholarships webpages.
- Applications will be considered based on Academic Excellence and a completed application.
- The Commonwealth will accept applications until 12th December 2024 (closing at 16:00 GMT).
Curriculum
Stage 1
- Advanced Microeconomics of Consumers, Markets and Welfare
- International Economics
- Advanced Macroeconomics
- Econometric Methods
- Microeconometrics
- Research Skills for Economics Dissertation
Stage 2
Dissertation: Economics
Program Outcome
Programme aims
The programme aims:
- To provide a stimulating education in the principles of Economics and their application, in which high-quality teaching motivates students to achieve their full potential. The teaching is informed by the research and scholarship of teaching staff.
- To build on the existing knowledge, abilities and skills of all students, and to develop a deeper understanding of economic theory, econometric and quantitative techniques and policy applications to specific areas.
- To provide options to enable students to study selected areas of Economics in depth.
- To develop in students the ability to apply economic knowledge, analytical tools and skills in a range of theoretical, applied and policy problems.
- To develop the skills necessary for independent research and to prepare students for work as professional economists or in an area related to Economics.
- To provide information and advice on future employment and further postgraduate study.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
You gain a knowledge and understanding of:
- The concepts, principles, theories, models and methods of modern advanced microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics and quantitative methods.
- The econometric, mathematical, statistical and computing methods used in Economics.
- Sources of economic data and methods used to analyse such data, and ability to make use of sources and methods.
- Model building in microeconomics and macroeconomics and critical analysis of such models.
- Application of core economic theory and reasoning to applied topics.
- Research methods and management.
- Specialist supervised dissertation topic and quantitative methods project.
- Economic analysis of policy.
- Chosen specialist areas in Economics selected from a range of options.
- Critical evaluation of major debates and articles in advanced economic literature
Intellectual skills
You gain the following intellectual skills:
- Ability to abstract the essential features of a complex system.
- Ability to think about what are the important variables and fixed parameters in analysing a problem.
- Ability to analyse complex issues using deductive and inductive reasoning.
- Ability to organise and use information to analyse complex issues and construct and test different hypotheses.
- Ability to review literature critically and appreciate alternative explanations and analyses of a problem.
- Ability to effectively work under supervision for the dissertation and manage quantitative projects.
Subject-specific skills
You gain the following subject-specific skills:
- Analytical skills in Economics.
- Ability to develop and understand models of Economic behaviour.
- Ability to apply economic principles and analysis to a range of issues, problems and policies.
- Ability to abstract the essential features of an economic issue, problem or system.
- Knowledge of the principal sources of economic data and information and ability to use and present this information.
- Be able to carry out economic/econometric analysis of economic data.
- Ability to synthesize and compare critically different economic analyses of an economic issue.
- Ability to research the literature on an economic issue.
- Research management skills.
- Ability to apply economic skills to investigate supervised dissertation and quantitative methods projects.
Transferable skills
You gain the following transferable skills:
- Effective communication of analysis and ideas both orally and in written form.
- Ability to assemble, analyse, use and present data.
- Understanding and ability to use economic, mathematical and quantitative methods to analyse issues and problems.
- Development of Information Technology skills through using statistical and econometric packages, bibliographic searches and word processing coursework.
- Independence in initiating and executing work.
- Ability to analyse and solve problems.
- Ability to think critically about proposed analyses and solutions to a problem or issue.
- Ability to define and test hypotheses.
- Become responsible for managing own learning and academic performance.
- Research management skills acquired through managing supervised dissertation and quantitative methods projects.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
A postgraduate degree in the area of economics is a particularly valuable and flexible qualification that can open the door to exciting careers in many professions. Our graduates have gone on to work as economists in international organisations, the financial sector, business, UK and overseas governments, and to further postgraduate training and academic careers at Kent, UK and overseas universities. Recent MSc graduates have gone on to work for companies in the UK such as BNP Paribas, AXA, FactSet and PwC.
The School's employability officers and the University's Careers and Employability Service are available throughout the year to offer one-to-one advice and help on all aspects of employability at any stage in your postgraduate studies. We also offer online advice on employability skills, career choices, applications and interview skills.
Program delivery
Teaching and assessment
Assessment is through a wide variety of methods including seminar presentations, extended essays, short projects, in-class tests, examinations, and the dissertation.
Program Admission Requirements
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