- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 4 to 6 Years
Course details
The PhD programmes in Economics and/or Finance at Maynooth University are built on the foundation developed in the MA programmes. While the MA programmes provide the basic skills and technical knowledge base via taught courses and a directed thesis, the PhD programme builds on this to further students’ skills and knowledge to enable them to do world class research.
The four year programme of study includes, in the first and possibly subsequent years, reading courses, taught courses, general skills seminars and independent research, while the second, third and the fourth years of the programme are dedicated primarily to general skills development and independent research. To remain at good progress the PhD candidate must write and present an original piece of research in each year of the programme, and this research must meet the approval of his/her committee.
Students who do not perform at the level required by the PhD programme during their studies may be eligible for an MLitt degree with a satisfactory MLitt thesis.
Part-Time Option
The PhD programme may be either on a part-time or on a full-time basis. Prospective candidates should, however, bear in mind that part-time PhD programme applicants are not eligible for scholarship funding.
Entry Requirements
Applicants must have a minimum of 2.1 overall in MA/MSc degree in Economics or Finance and a minimum of B- (or equivalent) in core modules in the acquired degree -depending on the degree, core modules may include Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics and/or Finance. If the applicant’s MA/MSc is from a university other than Maynooth University, the applicant desiring to pursue a PhD in Economics may be required to take a qualifying exam in Microeconomic Theory, Macroeconomic Theory and Econometrics, while the applicant pursuing a PhD in Finance may be required to take a qualifying exam in Microeconomic Theory, Finance and Econometrics.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
- READING MODULE: PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS
- QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- RISK & UNCERTAINTY
- ADVANCED DERIVATIVES
- FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
- INTERNATIONAL TRADE
- ECONOMETRICS 1
- MICROECONOMICS I
- MICROECONOMICS 2
- SEMINAR IN FINANCE 1
- PH.D RESEARCH SEMINAR 1
- ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS
- TIME SERIES ECONOMETRICS
- SEMINAR IN ECONOMICS 1
- POLICY EVALUATION USING STRUCTURAL MODELS
- PHD RESEARCH SEMINAR:RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES 1
- INDEPENDENT STUDY ON MULTIVARIATE RISK MODELING
- APPLIED ECONOMETRICS
- INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION
- RISK AND UNCERTAINTY
- PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN POSTGRADUATE TEACHING & LEARNING : TUTORS & DEMONSTRATORS
- FINANCE SKILLS / RESEARCH METHODS II
- THESIS
- INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
- TOPICS IN ECONOMETRICS
- ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS II
- CORPORATE FINANCE
- ECONOMICS OF INEQUALITY
- FINANCE SKILLS / RESEARCH METHODS 1
- THE CRAFT AND LOGICS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH II
- TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- THE CRAFT AND LOGICS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH I
- ACADEMIC WRITING MODULE
- SEMINAR SERIES
- WINTER/SUMMER SCHOOL
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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