MA (Economics)

This programme gives you the opportunity to examine the economic incentives that shape and reconcile the important decisions made by individuals, businesses, governments and societies.

You will explore the macroeconomic outcomes that arise from those decisions, such as:

• economic fluctuations
• growth
• unemployment
• crises

An understanding of these issues is vital for economic forecasting or influencing economic performance or policy.

Why Edinburgh?

Our staff makes up one of the leading groups of economic theorists in Europe. We are the base for the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics.

We receive consistently high ratings for academic standards, teaching and learning resources.

What You Will Study:

• Year 1
• You will study Economics 1 and two further courses.
• Year 2
• You will study:
• Economics 2
• Statistical Methods of Economics
• two further courses
• Year 3
• You will study:
• Topics in Microeconomics
• Essentials of Econometrics
• Topics in Macroeconomics
• Applications of Econometrics
• You will also take two economics honours option courses.
• Year 4
• You will undertake a dissertation in economics and four economics honours option courses.
• Programme structure
• Find out more about the compulsory and optional courses in this degree programme.
• To give you an idea of what you will study on this programme, we publish the latest available information. However, please note this may not be for your year of entry, but for a different academic year.