School of Economics

[Isaac More]

The School of Economics (SoE) consists out of six distinct clusters namely:

• Development Economics
• Financial Engineering
• Local Economic Development (includes CENLED – Center for Local Economic Development)
• Industrial Policy (which includes the Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) program)
• The Public and Environment Economics Research Center
• Center for Competition Regulation and Economic Development

Both the undergraduate and the Honour’s programmes are designed in such a manner that it prepares students (in terms of content and econometric skills) for the various magister programmes. Master’s programmes offered are:

• Master’s in Financial Engineering
• Master’s in Economics
• Master’s in Local Economic Development
• Master’s in Industrial Policy
• Master’s in Competition and Regulation
• Master’s in Development Economics

A full PhD programme is also offered by the SoE.

The full time staff compliment of SoE is 36 permanent lecturing staff members, 8 administrative staff members and 16 visiting Professors.