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Health Economics – (M.Sc.)
University of York
Department of Economics and Related Studies
| Application Deadline: | April 13 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,560 - ≈ € 15,305 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | York / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 60 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of York
The MSc. in Health Economics has been running since 1978 and the course has been completed by over 300 British and overseas students. It provides a comprehensive training in the theory and practice of Health Economics and gives students the experience and skills needed for research and health service decision-making. Graduates work in government departments, research units, universities, national health services and health care organisations, and the pharmaceutical industry.
The Health Economics Resource Centre
The Health Economics Resource Centre (HERC) provides a suite of rooms that combine the teaching materials, computing facilities, information resources, and secretarial support used in the full range of health economics training programmes offered by the department.
The principle aim of the resource centre is to provide readily available facilities for private study and research, forming a base for students attending the MSc in Health Economics and for the group of doctoral students in health economics.
MSc. Students work alongside a large group of health economists and health service researchers. The Department of Economics and Related Studies and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences are internationally recognised centres of excellence in Health Economics. There are around 50 research staff in the Centre for Health Economics and the York Health Economics Consortium .
Contents
Compulsory core components:
* Health Economics
* Evaluation of Health Care
* Econometrics 1 and Applied Microeconometrics, or Econometrics 1 & 2, or Statistics and Econometrics, or Econometric Methods for Research
* Either Advanced Microeconomics or Applied Microeconomics
* Clinical Decision Analysis
In addition students choose one ten credit option from:
* Advanced Macroeconomics
* Applied Microeconometrics
* Cost-Benefit Analysis
* Development Project Appraisal
* Experimental Economics
* Game Theory: Economic Applications
* Health and Development
* Health Care Management
* Industrial Economics
* International Macroeconomics
* Labour Economics
* Management Decision Analysis
* Public Finance
* Public Sector Economics: Microeconomic Applications
Students may be allowed to take one or more of their optional units from the following modules in environmental economics offered by the Environment Department. Students wishing to do so must first ask their MSc Director and the Environment Department's MSc Director for permission, which is not automatic.
* Environmental Economics
* Environmental Valuation
Summer Placement
Most students on the MSc in Health Economics choose to do a summer placement. These placements are compulsory for those students who receive Department of Health Studentships.
The placement covers the period 1 July to 30 September and is spent preparing an 8-10,000 word dissertation under the supervision of an experienced health economist. The placements involve the cooperation of many different institutions including academic research units, the NHS and pharmaceutical companies. Most students are based in UK but over recent years there have been placements in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Finland, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Vietnam and the USA.
The placement differs from the standard dissertation in that the placement supervisor suggests the research topic. A list of topics is circulated in the middle of the Spring term and students are allocated to their preferred placements before the Easter vacation.
Students should not try to organize their own placements. But suggestions for topics and host institutions are always welcome and should be given to the Director of the MSc.
IELTS
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Register Now!Requirements
Minimum entry requirement is the equivalent of an upper second class degree in economics or other relevant discipline.
English Language Requirements
The department's normal English language requirements, are (a) an IELTS result of 6.5 or (b) a TOEFL result of 600 if paper-based, 250 if CBT and 100 if iBT, or (c) A, B, and C Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English.
For those applicants who have already achieved an IELTS 6.0 and only need a 0.5 increase to make their offers unconditional, the University has approved a limited system of admission through satisfactory completion of the English for Academic and Research Purposes course (EARP1). The course is offered by the Centre for English Language Teaching and after successful completion of it and upon passing the end-of-course test, students will enter the Department directly and they do not need to re-take IELTS at the end of August.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade A (Score: 80) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 600 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 250 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 100 |
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