Master in Quantitative Economics

Eco­nomic re­search has changed con­sider­ably due to the in­creas­ing avail­ability of large data sets. Many scien­tific issues, which until re­cently could only be dis­cussed theo­reti­cally, can now be proved with the analy­sis of suita­ble data. The Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Mas­ter in Quan­tita­tive Eco­nom­ics“ hand­picks excel­lent na­tional and inter­na­tional stu­dents to pre­pare them for a career in this new field of re­search.

The Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Quantita­tive Eco­nom­ics” offers a well-rounded aca­demic educa­tion in eco­nom­ics to excel­lent na­tional and inter­na­tional stu­dents. After a rig­orous train­ing in micro­eco­nom­ics, mac­roeco­nom­ics and econ­omet­rics, stu­dents are free to pursue their own re­search focus from an early stage of stud­ies on­wards in coor­dina­tion with their men­tor.

Besides the im­mer­sion in sta­te-of-the-art in­terna­tional re­search, the train­ing in meth­odo­logical knowledge and key quali­fica­tions, if nec­essary by means of expert guest lec­tures, plays an im­portant role. This train­ing ena­bles our stu­dents to get famil­iar with new meth­ods and, thus, lay the ground for life­long learn­ing.

The stu­dents gain an in-depth un­der­stand­ing of mod­ern eco­nom­ics as well as the up-to-date quan­tita­tive meth­ods to tackle eco­nomic issues in the areas of micro­eco­nom­ics, mac­roeco­nom­ics, public fi­nance and econ­omet­rics on a PhD stu­dent level. In this way, stu­dents can focus their re­search in one of these are­as.

In addi­tion to eco­nom­ics profi­cien­cy, the pro­gram offers meth­odo­logical cours­es for apply­ing statis­tical and pro­ject plan­ning soft­ware as well as pro­gramming lan­guages al­low­ing stu­dents to apply the know­ledge gained in their own re­search pro­ject in the 3rd semes­ter and their master the­sis.

Students can pre­sent their re­search results at inter­na­tional eco­nom­ics con­fer­ences to gather inter­na­tional expe­rience. The Grad­uate Mas­ter Office of the facul­ty offers coun­seling to stu­dents from the mo­ment of their appli­cation on­wards and sup­ports them in non-academic is­sues.