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Why study Development Economics at the UvA?

Specialise in your field of interest

How?
Discover our specialisation tracks, many electives and challenging Honours programme.

Excellent career prospects

What?
Economists with a UvA degree earn the highest monthly salary in NL.

Top-ranked university

What?
The Amsterdam School of Economics is internationally ranked within the top-50 putting your Master’s degree on a worldwide map with interested employers.

Challenging 1 year programme

What?
You can obtain your Master’s degree in just one year. You will have to work harder and smarter.

Is Development Economics for you?

  1. You want to learn more about what economics has to offer to improve living standards in developing countries.
  2. You want to learn more about topics such as poverty, education, health, impact evaluation, access to financial markets, risk coping strategies, gender.
  3. You are interested in letting the data speak and doing empirical analysis myself.
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Facts & Figures
Degree programme
MSc Economics
Mode
Full-time
Credits
60 ECTS, 12 months
Language of instruction
English
Starts in
September
CROHO code
66401
Location
Roeterseiland campus