Why choose postgraduate Economics at NUI Galway?

Student-centred learning in small classes: Staff in the Department of Economics work closely with postgraduate students to provide an intensive, person-centred learning experience. The small class size on our taught postgraduate programmes – averaging 25 students per class – ensures a supportive and personalised learning environment and provides constant opportunity for contact and communication with academic staff.

Moving on in the right direction: Top-class graduates of these programmes have gone on to have very successful careers in the public and private sectors, in research institutes and universities and in development agencies throughout the world.

Making connections: Our academic staff have well-developed links with relevant organisations and agencies, which help guide our students in appropriate employment directions. These links have developed through organising the work placement component of the M.A./Master in Economic Science programme, through our research and consultancy activities with government departments, development agencies and other public and private bodies and through other research and professional activities.

Teaching and research excellence: The Department combines excellence with innovation, and has a strong national and international reputation in both research and teaching, which is reflected in the quality of postgraduate programmes that are delivered each year. Our academic staff have an impressive publications record in many different fields of economics, publishing in a wide range of international journals and presenting at international conferences. Members of staff have made important policy contributions through their research and consulting work for various local, national and international agencies.

Academic staff are involved in a number of prestigious research centres and units. Postgraduate students are encouraged to attend our regular seminar series and presentations of working papers by Department members. Check out our research section to explore the research activities in our Department, which enhance the postgraduate teaching programmes and ensure that the programme content is influenced by the most recent research output.

Expect to be challenged if you decide to take take one of our postgraduate programmes. Through our teaching and our seminars, through group work and individual presentations by students, we encourage critical thinking and we help you to develop the analytical skills that employers look for in today's economic environment. We develop your ability to ask the right questions, to unearth and interpret information or data that is available so that you will be able you to work out the answers, in whatever environment you find yourself.

When combined with your existing qualifications, the analytical and quantitative skills that you develop during any of the postgraduate Economics programmes are skills that you will carry through your working life, regardless of changes in the environment around you. These skills can be applied in many diverse settings, in changing economic and market environments. Thus, consider choosing postgraduate study in Economics at NUI Galway as an investment enhancing your lifetime career prospects.