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Applications are open as from 15 th of February of 2017.
The FEUC's Master in Economics (ME) is designed to provide extensive scientific and technical training in economics at graduate level. Students will intensify their comprehension of economic issues by focusing on broad aspects of economics (macro and micro components) and by specializing in one of three specific fields of interest: financial economics, industrial economics, and economics of growth and structural policies.
The ME also offers a wide range of optional course units in the area of economics, in the area of business management and other areas (law, history, accounting, etc.)
In addition, the ME aims for students to develop: a) and independent analytical capacity, through the preparation of an original project (Work Project), supervised by a member of the department; or b) their ability to solve real problems in the work environment (internship), in this case supervised by a member of the department and by a supervisor appointed by the host institution.
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The FEUC’s Master in Economics is a three-semester master’s degree that runs, for full time students, from early-September of the first academic year of enrollment to late February of the second academic year. Classes take place during the working week from Monday to Friday.
In the first semester
there are five compulsory course units, three common to all students, in
microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics, and two specific of the chosen
specialization field of studies. In the second semester you will take four
optional course units and the research seminar. In the third semester you are required to write a work
project/ internship report, supervised by a member of the department.
The final year students of the first degree in economics at the Faculty of Economics can enroll in course units of the ME, within the ECTS limits defined for the degree. They can then enroll in the ME, and conclude it in one single year, or even less, depending on the master’s level course units that have been approved during the first degree.
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Students arrive in Coimbra early September of each academic year.
Academic year and teaching on the compulsory course units begin in September.
First-semester examination period in January-first week of February.
Teaching on the optional course units begins in the second week of February.
Second-semester examination period in June-second week of July.
Students must choose a work project/internship report supervisor by the end of the second semester of the first year.
On the third semester of the Master in Economics (first semester of the second academic year) students work on their work project/internship report
Work project/internship report to be completed in January, the end of the first semester of the second academic year.
Course finishes with the public discussion of the work project/internship report in February of the second year of enrollment.
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The current structure of the course incorporates the guidelines of the European education model agreed in Bologna. 90 ECTS credits are required for obtaining the Master's degree, which corresponds to a duration of one year and one semester for full-time students.
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The Master in Economics is taught by experienced teachers – lecturers from the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra and invited experts from other institutions - that support students in their choice of topics for their research project and supervise their research. The Master's students are integrated into the regular research activities of the School.
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The ME is a program characterized by a great dynamism in scientific production, as evidenced by the numerous dissertations of high quality produced in the pre-Bologna period. Likewise in the new era, that is, from the academic year 2007/2008 onwards, over four hundred work projects and internship reports have been approved. An important number of these have been afterwards adapted and presented in international conferences and published in international peer reviewed scientific journals.