The Economics of Global Challenges

Who is addressed: As a consecutive study programme, the Master's degree programme The Economics of Global Challenges follows a completed Bachelor's degree (or comparable first degree) in one of the following subjects: Economics Political Science Sociology Business Studies Law Business Informatics Industrial Engineering (or similar) What to expect: The study programme is interdisciplinary and internationally oriented. It is closely oriented towards current economic research, enables students to look at the most challenging economic problems and crises of global societies from different perspectives and to penetrate them analytically. The language of instruction is English. What to achieve: After the completion of the Master's programme, students can enter a profession directly or deepen their economics knowledge within a doctoral programme. How to get there: Economics graduates who wish to address the world’s most pressing challenges and who are able to analyse these challenges from different angles, need a wide range of economic and interdisciplinary skills. This extensive range of skills is taught in the course of dealing with specific areas of application – the “global challenges”. The United Nations described these global challenges in its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the goals for socially, ecologically and economically sustainable development and a just future. In order to gain a deeper understanding of these challenges, insights from other disciplines such as anthropology, psychology, sociology and evolutionary biology are also drawn upon.