Language
  • English
Format
  • Full time
Start date
  • September
Location
  • Maastricht
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Master

Economics

Gain skills to tackle societal challenges like inequality, climate change, and disruption. Apply economics and data analysis to real-world issues, with specialisations in social inclusion, sustainable economies, and technology-driven change.

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Your future

We educate professional economists with a thorough understanding of economic theory and advanced methods. Our graduates are educated to apply their skills and knowledge to make well-founded decisions and formulate policy advice to address societal challenges. Our graduates pursue careers as:

  • Policymakers
  • Economic analysts
  • Business managers
  • Consultants
  • Researchers

The portfolio includes public policy jobs at (non-) governmental organisations (e.g., OECD, World Bank, EC, national ministries, statistical offices, research institutions), analyst positions in private industry (banks, funds, insurances, consultancy firms, tech companies) as well as media and researcher positions in academia. The specialisations fine tune the job profiles.

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Giving the floor to our alumni

Curious about your future career and want to know more about your future career perspective? Check out our video where our alumna Myrte ter Horst shares her experiences about studying at Maastricht University and the activities corresponding to her current job as Researcher at CBS Heerlen.

In this section, we present the average employability data for all programmes of the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (Alumni survey from 2024). In our latest survey, 78,0% of our graduates indicated they would choose the same study programme again! For detailed information per programme, please see the bottom of this page.

 

Working location of our alumni 1,5 years after graduation
Country%
the Netherlands 45,2% 
Germany 28,5% 
Belgium 10,0% 
Other EU country 8,8% 
Outside of the EU 7,5% 
Average employability data 5 years after graduation per programme

Please note that some programmes did not have enough responses to allow a satisfactory result and are therefore not included in this list.  

MSc programme 

% employed 

Median gross monthly income 

Would choose same programme again 

Econometrics and Operations Research 

100% 

€ 3.665,00 

 

81% 

Economics 

100% 

€ 3.700,00 

75% 

Financial Economics 

100% 

€ 5.500,00 

62% 

International Business (all specialisations) 

98% 

€ 5.000,00 

76% 

Learning and Development in Organisations 

95% 

€ 4.000,00 

90% 

Global Supply Chain Management and Change 

100% 

€ 5.100,00 

90% 

Sustainability Science, Policy and Society 

100% 

€ 4.000,00 

80% 

Public Policy and Human Development 

97% 

€ 4.400,00 

86%