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The Master's Programme in Economics
Entry requirements
To be admitted to the Master's programme, you must hold a Bachelor's degree in Economics, that is, a Bachelor's degree in accounting, business and human resources etc. is not considered qualifying.
As a minimum requirement, your Bachelor's degree in economics must include the following courses. In order to view the academic content of the requirements below, please follow the links:
- Microeconomics (at least 22.5 ECTS)
- Macroeconomics (at least 22.5 ECTS)
- Econometrics/statistics (at least 22.5 ECTS)
- Mathematics (at least 10 ECTS)
- Basic economic theory courses (at least 10 ECTS)
- Business Economics (at least 5 ECTS)
Important! Courses in Business Economics, Administration, Management and the like cannot, in any way, be included in the first 5 requirements above.
For any questions regarding the requirements please contact the Student Advisory Office.
Language requirements
Success in the program requires outstanding skills in speaking and writing English. Foreign applicants whose native language is not English are required to take the IELTS test or the TOEFL test.
To be admitted your IELTS score has to be 6.5 score points. An internet based TOEFL-score has to be 83 points and a paper based TOEFL has to be 560 points.
However, we do offer short courses on academic writing for international students.
Computer skills
The exam administration is entirely computerized. Thus, all written exams are PC-exams, and all students must be experienced PC-users in order to be able to sit the exams.
You can read about PC-exams on the university website.
Structure
Our Master's programme is a two-year programme consisting of 10 courses and 2 economic seminars or 9 courses and 3 economic seminars - plus a final Master's thesis of approximately 100 pages. The economic seminars are courses involving class presentation and class discussion of an individually written paper in a predefined area.
Courses and transcript
As a Master's student you are free to choose between all the courses in the Course Catalogue. The courses can be chosen from a wide selection of courses covering various topics in economics, econometrics and social sciences.
Your choice of courses affects your final transcript. If you are familiar with the scandinavian languages and choose to sit an exam in Danish, this will affect your final transcript and you will no longer hold a 100% English-language Master's degree.
In order to be a full time student, you must choose a minimum of four courses per semester, cf. our definition of a full time study.