Master's Degree in Economics and Political Science (EPS)
Milan, Italy
Master degree
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Key Summary
The EPS master's programme entirely taught in English aims at providing its students with advanced and complete training in both economics and political science. Graduates will not only be endowed with high-level analytical and operational skills, but they will also be characterised by such an open and critical vision of economic, political and social issues, and such a cultural depth.
The EPS master's programme aims to provide its students with advanced and complete training in both economics and political science. Such training should be comparable to that offered by any leading international master's programme in each of the two disciplines separately taken.
Specifically, the EPS master's programme aims at forming professional economists and political scientists. EPS graduates will not only be endowed with high-level analytical and operational skills, but they will also be characterised by such an open and critical vision of economic, political and social issues, and such a cultural depth that could be hardly achieved by attending a programme centred on a single or a prevailing disciplinary field.
EPS students will be able to reach highly qualified theoretical and applied knowledge and skills in each of the following fields:
- mathematics;
- probability and statistics, with applications to economic, political and social sciences;
- econometrics;
- microeconomics;
- macroeconomics;
- economic policy;
- public economics;
- welfare economics and politics;
- history of economic analysis;
- comparative politics, theory of European integration;
- positive and normative political theory;
- decision theory;
- game theory;
- social and political choice theory;
- theory of justice.
Year: 1
First trimester
Compulsory
- Game Theory
- Optimization
- Research Methods
Second trimester
Compulsory
- Advanced Microeconomics
- International Economic Law
- Positive Political Theory
Third trimester
Compulsory
- Advanced Macroeconomics
- Comparative Politics
Year: 2
First trimester
Compulsory
- Global Firms and Markets
Second trimester
Optional
- Comparative Welfare States
- Empirical Methods for Economics and Policy Evaluation
- Governance of the European Union
- Social Justice in a Global World
Conclusive activities
Compulsory
- Final Exam
Optional activities and study plan rules:
Students must earn 9 credits by selecting one of the following alternatives:
- Comparative Welfare States
- Empirical Methods for Economics and Policy Evaluation
Students must earn 6 credits by selecting one of the following alternatives:
- Governance of the European Union
- Social Justice in a Global World
Optional programme year
Second trimester
Optional
- Advanced Computer Skills
- Laboratory Introduction to Coding and Data Management for Economics and Political Science
Third trimester
Optional
- Laboratory Public Policy in Government
- Orientation Seminar
Open sessions
- There are no specific sessions for these activities (e.g. open online courses)
Optional
- Additional Language Skills: Italian
- Advanced Language Skills: French
- Advanced Language Skills: German
- Advanced Language Skills: Spanish
The EPS degree is designed to train students in advanced methodologies, analytical tools and quantitative and qualitative techniques used in all fields of economics and political science. EPS graduates will be ready to undertake a wide array of career paths in multinational companies, political institutions, public organizations, and other professions demanding high intellectual skills, robust technical competencies and versatile knowledge. They will also be well prepared to engage in further academic research in top PhD programmes. The EPS degree is designed to train students in covering the following professional profiles: Management specialists and supervisors in Public Administrations, companies and institutions, Human Resource specialists, Work organization specialists, Products and Services marketing specialists, Economic systems specialists, Business Economics specialists, Researchers and Technicians graduated in social and political sciences.
Function in a work context
Also due to the fully international orientation of the training received, graduates in Economics and Political Science will be able to find qualified jobs in large and medium-sized companies, especially in those operating in high-tech sectors and with a multinational vocation, in all organizational structures that require high and multifaceted analytical skills, in banks, insurance and financial companies, in central and territorial public bodies, in market regulation and control authorities, in consultancy firms to companies, in freelance activities in all sectors of competence. Master graduates of the EPS course will also have the most suitable training and professional profile to operate at a qualified level in the industry editorial, cultural and media, in economic-financial, political and cultural journalism, in economic organizations national and international, in trend organizations and interest representation, in public and private bodies of forecasting and research, in the study centres of banks and insurance companies, in research and in university teaching. In particular, the theoretical and methodological training of the master's graduates of the course, as well as their openness to the debate of the international scientific community, makes them suitable for undertaking possible academic career paths in Italian and foreign universities both in the economic discipline area and in the political science one.
Skills associated with the function
It is expected that the master's graduates of the EPS course will be able to propose themselves in the professional field as experts of high-level qualification, with multifaceted and versatile knowledge, able to successfully undertake managerial careers or directives in all sectors of economic activity, in private companies, in public bodies, in governmental institutions or supranational, but also able to successfully continue their studies, as researchers and scientists. In particular, the strong interdisciplinarity of the study paths, between economics and political science, which takes up the challenge of modern societies' complex situations should in any case ensure that all master's graduates have the concrete possibility of finding employment in the jobs listed below by way of example.
Employment opportunities
These skills are extremely useful for the following professions:
- Diplomatic career
- University career
- Official of international organizations
- Officials in public administrations
- Manager in multinational companies and financial institutions