Education

What can you find on this webpage?

Our (future) students can find the official study programme and other useful info here.

You can find information about admission requirements, further studies and more practical info such as ECTS sheets, or a weekly timetable of the current academic year.

 

Are you a future student?

Be sure to first take a look at the page about the Master of Economics.

There you can find more info on:

- What’s the programme about?

- Starting profile

- Admission and application

- Future possibilities

- Why KU Leuven

- Contact

- ...

Profile

Is this the right programme for me?

• You have an interest in the dynamics of economy and society;
• You have an ability to analyse, synthesise and interpret;
• You have a positive scientific attitude and you are critical and creative;
• You have a solid academic background in economics or business, including the most important domains in economics or business/management (such as macro- and microeconomics), mathematics and statistics;
• You are familiar with more general themes necessary for understanding the evolutions in the business world and you are able to relate these evolutions to the broader social, juridical, political and societal context.

Admission requirements

Admission requirements Master of Economics (Leuven)

Objectives

The programme Master in Economics expects students to acquire certain knowledge, skills and attitudes and therefore formulates the following programme-specific learning outcomes:

1. Economic analysis
The graduate knows and understands the theories and models from the economic field, and can use them to analyse and critically assess real economic processes and interactions and to propose and implement solutions to these processes.

2. Development of economic policy
The graduate can describe and apply the key concepts of economic policy to critically evaluate, assess, remedy and discuss policy choices and their implications.

3. Mathematical and statistical techniques
The graduate can apply state-of-the-art mathematical and statistical methods within a real economic context, paying critical attention to the limitations and assumptions of the methods used.

4. Research skills
The graduate can go through the different stages of research to analyse business problems, to formulate and evaluate solutions and to communicate about this.

5. Behavioural and social sciences
The graduate can critically analyse and assess human behaviour and social and cultural phenomena in an economic context.
The graduate has insight into how social, psychological, philosophical, ethical and cultural factors affect the actions of companies, governments and individuals and, conversely, can also estimate the consequences of his behaviour and actions for various stakeholders.

6. Law
The graduate has insight into legal elements that regulate economic activities.

7. Professional skills and preparation for the labour market
The graduate develops professional skills in preparation for the transition to the labour market (leadership skills, teamwork, communication skills...)

8. Ethics, responsibility and sustainability
The graduate recognises the social, ethical and environmental aspects of policy making and can reflect on them critically.

9. International orientation
The graduate can analyse economic issues in an international context.

10. Entrepreneurship & innovation
The graduate has the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes in order to develop innovative ideas in a business and/or socio-economic context.

The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration encourages and pursues developmental aspects in all its courses in the field of:

Professional skills and employability

-          The student develops a professional attitude as well as professional and academic skills that enable him/her to deliver a meaningful contribution to society.

-          The student actively searches for settings to broaden and/or deepen his/her competences in accordance with his/her disciplinary future self.

-          The student acknowledges the importance of continuing education and shows willingness to participate in lifelong learning.

 

Ethics, responsibility and sustainability

-          In his/her thinking and acting the student shows attention for the environment, man, and society and develops a critical attitude towards these topics.

-          The student adopts an ethical approach when solving problems in a business context.

 

International orientation

-          The student pays attention to international and intercultural dimensions of business and policy.

-          The student acknowledges the added value of an international context for their own environment and the society in general.

 

Entrepreneurship and innovation

-          The student develops a proactive stance and entrepreneurial attitude, characterised by creativity and  a sense of innovation.

 

When, within a programme, a developmental objective also constitutes a learning outcome, this is also mentioned within the objectives of the programme or the course and becomes binding.

Educational quality of the study programme

Here you can find an overview of the results of the COBRA internal quality assurance method.

Educational quality at study programme level

Blueprint
Blueprint BA MA economische wetenschappen Economics.pdf

COBRA 2019-2023
COBRA report_MA_Economics.pdf

Educational quality at university level

• Consult the documents on educational quality available at university level.

More information?

• More information on the educational quality at KU Leuven
• More information on the available documents