Study Master of Economics and Public Policy. Application deadline is April 30, 2020

The University of Economics, Prague offers 8 international Master’s study programmes. We introduce all of them on the website during February. The Open House Day of Master’s programmes taught in English will be held in Rajská Building/Rajská budova (RB 211) on Wednesday, March 4, 2020 from 6 pm.

The Faculty of Economics offers two-year full-time master’s programme Economics and Public Policy taugth in English.

Programme objectives

The programme provides students with theoretical knowledge and advanced analytical skills required to work as a leader in economics, jurisprudence and other social disciplines with a special emphasis on international economics and politics.
The main aim of the Master of Economics and Public Policy programme is to prepare new economists with theoretical and practical knowledge for future positions as economic and financial analysts in both the private and the public sectors, such as in government, the central bank, commercial banks and major international corporations in the Czech Republic as well as abroad.
The programme is suitable for Czech and international students who want to gain a very strong background in economic and social science disciplines and want to start their career nationally or internationally.

Profile of the graduate

Graduates will have the knowledge to be able to:
• understand economic and financial information and understand the links between economic science and other scientific disciplines;
• interpret the economic logic of rational behavior at the microeconomic and macroeconomic levels, both in the domestic economy and internationally;
• characterize the view of various economic schools and approaches to the functioning of economic systems and their key elements,
• describe the possible consequences of changes in the behavior of institutions on people’s interactions in society;
• orientate in advanced theories of economic growth and business cycles in a small open economy;
• formulate an economic problem, solve optimization problems and construct market equilibrium models;
• carry out empirical research using econometric models.

Admission procedure

Information how to apply step by step can be found HERE. Application deadline is April 30, 2020.