Join a welcoming and collaborative campus community and learn from internationally-recognized researchers in the Master of Arts (MA) in Economics program at the University of Guelph. This advanced program will extend your economics and finance knowledge and prepare you for a variety of roles within the public and private sectors, as well as further education at the PhD level. The program offers a finance specialization for students who wish to focus their studies towards finance-based economics.
Program
Master’s students can choose a course-based degree (8 months) or coursework plus Master’s Research Project (MRP) degree (12 months). The MRP is completed in the third semester, supervised one on one by a faculty member. Both specializations (Economic and Finance) will need to take a non-credit preliminary mathematics course as well as the Economic core of advanced microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics. Students interested in the finance specialization will need to take additional courses in theoretical and empirical finance.
Research Field
Financial Economics
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN:
Economics
Finance
International Development
Data Analytics
Career Opportunities:
Economist
Research Associate, Statistician, Data Analyst
Financial Analyst, Portfolio Manager
Public and Private Sector Management
Academia
Esperado Septiembre 2023
University of Guelph
50 Stone Road East,
Guelph,
Ontario (ON),
N1G 2W1, Canada
Students must have
English Language Proficiency
Canadian Academic English Language Test (CAEL) - 70
International English Language Testing System (Academic) (IELTS) - 6.5
Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) - 85
Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE-A) Note: A minimum score of 60 must be achieved in each individual component - 60
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT)) Note: A minimum score of 21 must be achieved in each of the four categories (listening, speaking, reading, writing) – 89
