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Objectives
The undergraduate program in Economics provides a high-level training in economic theory and policy, and the use of mathematical and statistical tools for the analysis, understanding and management of issues concerning developing economies. With the support of a high academic level staff and the Study Center of Economic Development -CEDE-, this program provides a solid ground in theory and research, which allows the student to be in contact with the country´s socio-economic reality.
Study Plan
After the second semester of 2006, the Economics Program lasts four years (4). It consists of a common cycle of basic training in economics that includes the first five (5) semesters, a two (2) semester vocational cycle in which students must take elective courses and research seminars, and a one semester terminal cycle where the student has to choose between two alternatives: terminal and co-terminal.
In the vocational cycle, the student must take at least two (2) research seminars, maximum four (4), and must take the complete sequence of at least one elective subject area, which consists of two economics electives and a research seminar.
In the terminal alternative the students will attend three (3) economics electives and submit their thesis. In the co-terminal alternative students must take between 14 and 16 credits in courses from the Masters in Economics Program. This last alternative offers the students the opportunity to complete the Masters Degree in one additional year.
Research or Concentration Areas
Up to fifth semester, students meet the minimum training required to undertake the following semesters. The School has structured some areas as a guide for students, each of which offer economic electives and seminars. Students, in addition to successfully passing the remaining compulsory subjects, must organize their vocational cycle according to their interests. The students must meet two requirements in this cycle: take the complete sequence of at least one area (which consists of 2 electives and 1 seminar) and take at least 2 seminars, maximum 4. These areas are:
- Social economics and economy of conflict.
- Public policies
- Financial economics
- Applied macroeconomics.
- Macroeconomics and development.
- History, philosophy and methodology.
- Environmental economics, housing and regional development.
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Alumni Profile
The School´s alumni can perform in various professional fields:
- Public sector: public departments in charge of planning processes, local authorities and other national or regional entities which participate in economic policy decisions and activities that require planning and consulting. Research and academia.
- Private Sector: In the financial sector, in business groups and companies that require skilled professionals to analyze and understand the functioning of the national and global economy, and its evolution. Research and academia.
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