Curriculum

Taught almost exclusively in English by faculty visiting from Western Europe and North America or Western-trained economists from Ukraine and neighboring countries, the KSE program offers a curriculum unlike any other available today in Ukraine.

The M.A. program consists of a rigorous two-year curriculum, comparable to that of leading Western universities. The curriculum is a combination of applied and theoretical courses in major areas of economics and finance and every academic year is divided into five two-month terms, each with seven weeks of instruction and one week of reading, review, and examination.

Srarting the 2009-10 academic year, the Kyiv School of Economics offers two M.A. programs: M.A. in Economic Analysis and M.A. in Financial Economics.

The first-year curriculum will be common for both M.A. programs and consist of year-long sequences in the core fields of economics: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Statistics & Econometrics and Mathematics for Economists. All first-year students will take the same courses together in one group.

In the second year of studies, students will have a possibility to make a choice between the M.A. in Economic Analysis and M.A. in Financial Economics. While, the MA in Financial Economics will consist of two thirds of courses related to financial economics and one third of general economic courses, for the MA in Economic Analysis, it will be vice versa. Namely, for the MA in Financial Economics students will be required to take about 10 core courses in financial economics and about 5 electives in economics analysis, and for the MA in Economic Analysis about 10 core courses in economics analysis and about 5 electives in financial economics.

Furthermore, students in the second year must take five mandatory research courses: Research & Economic Policy Analysis Workshop (terms I-IV) and Thesis Workshop (term V). Courses vary from year to year, depending on the faculty available.

In the second year, each student must also write a research paper that meets international quality standards. Examples of student M.A. thesis can be found at http://www.kse.org.ua/library/ma_thesis.html

The provisional list of second-year courses that will be taught in 2009-10 academic year is given below (subject to change):

MA in Financial Economics

• Monetary Economics
• Issues in Financial Economics and Strategy (Top Professors Course)
• Theory of Corporate Finance
• Financial Economics I
• Emerging Capital Markets
• Financial Economics II
• Issues in Financial Economics
• Money and Banking
• International Finance
• Research & Economic Policy Analysis Workshop
• Thesis Workshop

MA in Economic Analysis

• Public Economics I
• New Economic Geography
• Issues in Financial Economics and Strategy (Top Professors Course)
• Economic Policy Analysis I
• Labor Economics I
• International Trade I
• Issues in Microeconomics I: Information Economics
• Advanced Macroeconomics I
• Industrial Organization I
• Economics of Europe
• Game Theory
• Demography and Transition
• Research & Economic Policy Analysis
• Thesis Workshop

Each miniterm course (including up to five miniterms of work on research) earns 3 credits; 120 credits in economic courses are required for completion of the degree.