This course provides you with a high-quality and thorough training in e programmes are challenging, incorporating mathematics and statistics, they are technical and highly focused on analytical theory. Our research-oriented MSc programmes provide you with high-quality training in economics and econometrics. Our MSc programmes will equip you with the tools a professional economist needs to work in government or in international organisations, to conduct economic research. We deliver rigorous training in the core areas of economics to gain comprehensive knowledge in the latest analytical and quantitative techniques. You will also gain a firm grounding in mathematical and econometric techniques, as well as microeconomics and macroeconomics. Our graduates have found employment in a wide variety of private and public organisations in the UK and abroad including in financial services, with the civil service (in the UK the Government Economic Service and the Department for International Development), and as economists with overseas development agencies and international institutions, and as research economists with journals and media agencies. Our MSc programmes are research oriented and act as a pathway into PhD study globally. Our programmes are the only Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC) recognised pathway to PhD Economics study in Scotland.