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PhD in Economics

Introduction

The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore offers a Program, entirely in English, of Doctoral Studies in Economics leading to a PhD degree fully accredited worldwide. The Program aims to offer outstanding training for study and research in the various fields of economics, in order to equip students with the skills and knowledge for starting an academic career, as well as for working as professional economists in private enterprises, governments and international organizations.

The PhD Program in Economics has a long and consolidated tradition of post-graduate teaching and research in both theoretical and applied economics. This Program began in 1985 as a joint project with the major universities of Milan (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi and Università degli Studi di Milano) pooling their resources in a consortium. With the increased demand for post-graduate education, the consortium was dissolved in 2000 and each University proceeded to create its separate program. Since its inception, more than one hundred students have successfully completed the PhD Program, and many of them are working in leading academic and non-academic, prestigious institutions like the Federal Reserve, the European Commission, the United Nations, the ECB, the Bank of England and the Bank of Italy.

The duration of the PhD Program is three years. The first year is devoted mainly to advanced course work in mathematics for economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics and a considerable number of frontier state-of-the-art research topics. Full time research is pursued over the following two (or exceptionally three) years, during which each student must write his/her thesis. Students are encouraged and financially supported to carry out part of their studies at leading foreign universities in order to allow them to exchange and compare ideas on a broader scale.