Economics and International Financial Economics MSc

**Global financial markets influence everything from business growth to jobs and personal finances. Our MSc connects advanced economic theory and empirical economics with decision science, behavioural economics and the realities of international finance. Prepare for careers across finance, policy and research with the support of the UK’s number one Economics department, as ranked in the Good University Guide 2026.\
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Teaching and learning**

Expert teaching from leading academics in their field will equip you to take quantitative analysis into your future career or further research. Our teachers use a variety of seminars, lectures, tutorials and workshops to develop economists’ core skills and introduce cutting edge ideas.

* Analytical training: By the end of the course, you will understand how to apply quantitative economic models to solve a range of public policy, business, financial and regulatory problems. You will be able to apply modern quantitative techniques to a variety of data sets to develop your own research and critically engage with professional and academic economists in your field.

* Research Skills: understand how to develop a question, frame it against the literature and apply your quantitative skills to data you source from our Bloomberg database.

* Specialist software: we teach using a range of packages to support quantitative analysis, including R, Stata, and in certain modules Python and Matlab ensuring you will have the skills to make analytical contributions wherever you take your MSc.

* Professional communication: develop written, presentation and data interpretation skills across a variety of assessments