The Graduate Program in Economics consists of a two-year Master in Economic Analysis and a two-year PhD in Economics. The Master’s program provides training geared towards academic and research work in the different economic fields. Its main objective is to provide prospective students with the strong academic foundations necessary for pursuing PhD studies. It likewise prepares highly qualified professionals with marked expertise in Economics to work in the public and the private sector.

     In the PhD studies, students will be engaged in full-time research towards the completion of a doctoral dissertation, under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Through the course of the program, the student will learn how to design, execute and present a research project, and produce journal-quality research papers which comprise their doctoral dissertation.

     This Graduate Program is a member of the European Network for Training in Economic Research (ENTER), an initiative by eight of the leading economics departments in Western Europe, all of them with international graduate programs: Barcelona (Universitat Autonoma), Brussels (Free University), Mannheim, Stockholm (joint graduate programme), Tilburg, Toulouse, UCL and Universidad Carlos III. The network organises extended exchanges of research students between the participating departments and a annual workshop.

      The Department of Economics of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is committed to academic excellence. In a recent study by R. Amir and M. Knauffen (2005), the Department of Economics was ranked 32th in the World in terms of placement of outgoing PhD students.