• York University’s Master of Arts in Economics is offered as a 1-year teaching program.
  • This program is offered on a full-time teaching basis and the program can be completed in two terms (Fall and Winter).
  • MA program is a course-based program providing advanced training in economic theory and quantitative methods and offering a wide selection of courses in various fields in economics.
  • Graduates of the MA program will be well prepared for doctoral study in economics or employment in both the public and private sectors.
  • The main components of this program that students will go through are:
    • Macroeconomic Analysis
    • Public Finance and Fiscal Policy
    • Advanced Topics in Labour Economics
    • Advanced Topics in Econometrics
    • The Econometrics of Cross-Section Data
  • Students applying for the course option, they must take at least 30 credit hours of graduate work (typically 10 courses).
  • This program is also delivered by world-class researchers who also encourage students’ independent thinking, makes it an excellent choice for the best engineers of the future.
  • Students will have access to three powerful Unix-based servers that run advanced computing applications such as Gauss, S-plus, Garch, Wavelette, SAS, Stata, IMSL and Unix versions of Maple and TSP.
  • For this course, the student to teacher ratio is 31:1, which helps increase interaction between professors and students.
  • Department of Economics focuses on essential issues like poverty, climate change, housing markets, financial crises, immigration, health care, and much more.
  • Students may have job opportunities as a
    • Securities Agents
    • Investment Dealers
    • Brokers Banking
    • Economist, etc with an average salary of 41,772 USD per year.