Management and Applied Economics

The program qualifies students for a variety of professions as economic experts, including management positions at private companies, positions at public companies that operate in complex economic environments, consulting firms, fields in financial management, as well as strategic management positions at private and public companies and positions in public administration..
Aside from core mandatory courses in business and economics, the program curriculum is flexible, allowing students to specialize in fields corresponding to personal interests and personal professional objectives, but still providing a focus and sound link to business and economics in the foreground. In addition, students learn more in-depth about modern methods of empirical economic research used as an instrument of analysis in many course subjects. Courses in the program are offered mainly in English, providing students an opportunity to acquire active and passive language proficiency on a professional and multidisciplinary level.
The Master’s degree program in Management and Applied Economics is geared towards students
• who are interested in the field of economics and their corresponding correlations and,
• who, after completing an undergraduate degree, wish to pursue in-depth knowledge on the subject and acquire additional academic qualifications in a specialized field and,
• who wish to implement acquired knowledge in analysis and creative solution-finding to various professional fields in business and politics and;
• who would like to pursue an academic career and enroll in a Ph.D. program.
Potential Career Opportunities• decision-making and consulting for political and economic public decision-makers;
• evaluating and consulting on measures of economic and socio-political strategy and their development;
• selecting and adapting adequate theoretical and empirical analysis context for concrete issues, as well as implement independent examinations by applying appriopriate methods;
• interpreting and critically classifying the results of empirical analyses, and communicating effectively with experts as well as laymen;
• tracking the development of new business approaches and theories and, in the pursuit of life-long learning, independently delving into new fields of application.