The Master of Economics reputation for rigorous training in graduate economics - underlined by its research-active pedagogy - attracts outstanding students to the University. In particular, influential economic policymakers in prominent organisations of national executive government (especially PM&C and Treasury) have found the MEc’s focus on national policy issues very rewarding. The degree's accommodation of a focus on Australia's place in the region (through coursework choices and research) is worth stressing.

Learning Outcomes

1. undertake formal economic analysis and empirically test solutions to economic problems;
2. possess the technical skills needed to access the academic literature in most fields of study in economics;

3. assimilate the significant content of recent developments in both theoretical and applied economics;

4. undertake independent research in economic theory at the graduate level and provide economic intuition for the results