- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 1 Year
Course details
This is a one year Full-time programme. The course provides an accelerated route to the equivalent of an honours degree in Economics. A performance of 60% or better in the diploma guarantees a place on our Master’s programmes.
Entry Requirements
An honours primary degree in any discipline. Students without any knowledge of economics are strongly advised to have a good background in Statistics and Quantitative Methods and to be prepared to undertake substantial independent study to equip themselves with the expected level of Economics. Well-motivated, quantitatively able honours graduates of any discipline are welcome to apply. Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
Year 1
- ECONOMETRICS
- ADVANCED MACROECONOMICS
- ADVANCED MICROECONOMICS
- ECONOMICS OF SPORT
- FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING FOR NON-ACCOUNTANTS
- FIXED INCOME MARKETS (INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS & INSTITUTIONS).
- INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
- DERIVATIVES 2: AN ANALYSIS OF OPTIONS AND CREDIT DERIVATIVES
- DERIVATIVES 1: FORWARDS, FUTURES & SWAPS
- INVESTMENTS (PORTFOLIO SELECTION & ANALYSIS)
- ECONOMICS OF WORK AND LIFE DECISIONS
- INTERNATIONAL TRADE
- COMPETITION & REGULATION
- MONEY & BANKING
- INTERMEDIATE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS FOR ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
- ECONOMIC RESEARCH
- IRISH ECONOMY
- LAW & GOVERNANCE
- FINANCIAL CRISES AND REGULATION
- INFORMATION ECONOMICS
- CORPORATE FINANCE
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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