MSc Programmes

patriks

Hello all,

Recently, I've been looking at a number of Msc programmes. I'm unsure as to whether it would be more prudential to do an MSc in Economics or an MSc in Econometrics. Most Economics programmes contain a significant component of econometrics; however, perhaps a programme wholly dedicated to econometrics would be more advisable, or, perhaps, it's just a matter of which area of the discipline one would like to focus on.
Given the above, I was wondering, has anybody had any further input or advice?

Thanks!

Flamed Diving

I never heard of an MSc in Econometrics...

patriks

Yeah, sorry about that. I probably should have posted a few links to such courses.
There are such courses here and here.

Flamed Diving

Well, in my experience, Econometrics has been the most useful subject that I have learned throughout my MA. It's like learning a language that allows you to read research papers. I have received very little from the Micro & Macro courses, but that's just me.

I should note that a lot of jobs I am looking at seem to look for skills with programs such as Excel VBA, Stata, SPSS, Matlab, R, C++, Java, and more.

If I was to go back and do a MSc which strongly focuses on Econometrics & Maths, I would have a look at what programs they teach you to apply your skills with. A course that teaches you a programming language (C++, Java) would be very useful.

LSE do masters courses in Econometrics I think.

The Masters in Warwick lets you take
Advanced Econometrics, Microeconemetrics, Panel Data Econometrics and Financial Econometrics as your courses. You do these in addtion to core micro/macro courses and a thesis.
Not sure if all of those courses are still running.

blucey

In general Etrics is a tool. If you are into the development of the tool, go for the Msc in same. If you are more about using the tool, then a good solid MSc/MPhil with a solid set of econometrics courses is enough