Master en Économie - Focus Professionnel

The Professional Master is a high-quality program designed to offer training to pursue a high-level professional career by integrating a large set of subjects in economics. It provides the needed skills and tools to become a “problem solver” by understanding economic analysis and its applications to real-life situations.

• Master 120 in economics / Professional Focus / General Orientation - ECON2MS/G
• Bilingual (FR/EN)
• Programme organised with the University of Namur (part of options and electives taught at UNamur - 20km away from Louvain-la-Neuve)

A 2-year program - 120 credits (FR / EN)

Structure Over the 2 Years

• Core Course - 5 credits
• Professional Focus - 30 credits
• 3 Options of Specialization - 45 credits
• 4 Electives - 20 credits
• 1 Thesis - 20 credits

The Economics School of Louvain (ESL) is based at UCLouvain Belgium in Louvain-la-Neuve. It offers top-quality Master's programs in ECONOMICS taught by leading academic professors, offering a wide range of advanced and interdisciplinary courses in Macroeconomics / Public Economics / Labour Economics / Industrial Organisation / International Economics / Family Economics / Development Economics/ Econometrics / Game Theory/ Social Choice Theory / Economics of Poverty / The Economics of the Third Sector/ Behavioural Economics.

ESL provides among the best preparations for Ph.D. programs and high-level professional careers. Alumni praise ESL for the availability of its professors and quality of their teaching.

The Economics School of Louvain builds on the strengths of two of the most prestigious Belgian Universities, namely,

• the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) &
• the University of Namur (UNamur)

ESL's key assets comprise

Teaching and research excellence (ESL is in the top 10 in Europe, 1st Belgian economics department in the Tilburg University top 100 worldwide economics schools research ranking) A strong international experience: ESL has developed a network of partner universities for exchanges and double/joint degree master programs A high level of research underpinning teaching is carried out in internationally renowned centers