Economics and Finance Menéndez Pelayo International University

Overview

Overview

• Courses take place during the first five terms, with three courses per term. Starting in the third term, all courses are elective, which gives students a high degree of flexibility in choosing their preferred areas and in deciding their own degree of specialization. The sixth term is fully devoted to research work on a Master Thesis.

• The Master in Economics and Finance lasts for two academic years (120 ECTS). Each academic year is divided into three ten-week terms.

• The Economics and Finance Master from Menéndez Pelayo International University comprises 34 courses. The two preliminary courses take place in September, right before the beginning of the first term. In the first two terms all courses are mandatory (obligatoria). The 24 courses in Module II are all elective (optativa), with the students having to choose nine courses in that module, three in each of the last three terms. Two of the courses are workshops, in which students present and discuss applied and policy papers.

• The first workshop takes place in the second and third terms, and the second one in the fourth and fifth terms.

• The sixth term is fully devoted to research work conducive to a Master thesis.

• The set of training opportunities at the master is completed with a series of  invited lectures short courses, and several series of research seminars organized throughout the academic year.

• In the summer between the first and the second year students are offered either a summer internship at a private or public institution or to collaborate as a research assistant in a faculty member's

• The Master Thesis is an original research piece in the field chosen by the student. Each student is assigned an adviser who helps him or her in identifying a suitable research topic and oversees the whole process. The Master Thesis defense takes place in a public session.