• M.Phil in Economics at the University of Cambridge is offered on a full-time basis for a duration of 22-months.
  • This is an on-campus and thesis-based program.
  • The MPhil in Economics is a one-year master’s degree that runs from mid-September to late June or late July.
  • This degree is for students candidates who are interested in undertaking a master’s degree that will give them the technical training required to undertake a career as a professional economist.
  • Students have to attend the preparatory course in Mathematics and Statistics and take 6 compulsory modules.
  • Students have to attend 5 classes for each of the modules in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics and 7 classes for Econometrics.
  • The total number of lecture hours for the course is either 117 or 135 hours.
  • Each student takes 6 coursework modules (7 modules if no dissertation is submitted). Each module has 18 hours of lecture time, except Econometrics, which has 27 hours of teaching.
  • The Preparatory Course consists of 48 hours of lecture time.
  • There is an internal examination of the material covered in the preparatory course which is assessed on a pass/fail basis.
  • There are some practice exams in January and students receive feedback on their performance.
  • Students may choose to submit a 10,000-word dissertation at the end of July.
  • The modules are examined by written papers of 1.5, 2, or 3 hours duration, or a combination of written/project work or project work alone.
  • The department is consists of 39 academic staff, 10 postdoctoral researchers, 225 graduate students, and 500 undergraduates.