M1 Economics

  • Places available
    50
  • Language(s) of instruction
    English
  • Enrolment type
    Formation initiale
  • Type of teaching
    En présentiel
  • Start of programme (indicative date)
Présentation
Objectives

The University Paris Saclay and Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris Saclay offer a competitive research program to prepare students for a carrer in academia and national and international institutions: The Master of Economics (MoE).
Students will acquire the fundamental techniques and concepts in economics, both theoretical and empirical, as well as a critical thinking about the way to use them. This master's degree is also a gateway to highly selective PhD’s programs in economics worldwide.
Students of the MoE Master’s program will learn how to build and contextualize complex economic problems, to create economic models, to treat and analyze data, and to communicate about the results. They will also develop their ability to conduct independent, original, and innovative scientific research in their research master’s thesis.
At the end of the master, students will have the fundamental skills to start research in economics.

Skills
  • Problematize an economic question and contextualize it socially, historically and within an academic literature.

  • Overall organisation

    The first year of the program (M1) is structured around 8 compulsory core courses that form the common ground on which the research specialization in the second year (M2) will be based, supplemented by two optional discovery courses and two research projects.
    The M2 is entirely optional, allowing students to build, under the supervision of the faculty members, their own specific curricula adapted to their personal research agenda. Some will choose to specialize fully in one of the three fields of excellence of the Master’s degree (1. Trade, Geography and Development Economics 2. Public and Behavioral Economics 3. Advances and Challenges in Macroeconomics). Others will choose more diversified and original combinations, allowing cross-fertilization between areas that are treated in a conventional way independently.

    Career prospects

    At the end of the master, students will have the necessary skills to pursue careers requiring high level of expertise in economics, in the private sector, international organizations, public institutions, and of course academics.

    Course Prerequisites

    BA Economics, BS Mathematics, Licence d'Economie, Licence de Mathématique

    Transfer paths

    NON

    Post-graduate profile

    At the end of the master, students will have the necessary skills to pursue careers requiring high level of expertise in economics, in the private sector, international organizations, public institutions, and of course academics.

    Location
    GIF SUR YVETTE
    Collaboration(s)
    Laboratories

    Réseaux Innovation Territoires et Mondialisation
    Alimentation et Sciences Sociales
    Economie Publique
    Centre d'Etudes des Politiques Economiques de l'Université d'Evry
    Centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement.

    Center for Economics in Paris-Saclay

    Programme

    The schedule will be posted shortly.

    Modalités de candidatures
    Application period
    From 13/02/2026 to 03/04/2026
    Admission criteria
    Dossier
    Compulsory supporting documents
    • Copy diplomas.

    • Copy of passport.

    • Copy of identity document.

    • Motivation letter.

    • All transcripts of the years / semesters validated since the high school diploma at the date of application.

    • Curriculum Vitae.

    Additional supporting documents
    • 2nd letter of recommendation (compulsory for candidates who have already been enrolled in higher education in France before).

    • Letter of recommendation (compulsory for candidates who have already been enrolled in higher education in France before).

    • Certificate of English level.

    • Certificate of English level (compulsory for non-English speakers) or GMAT / GRE test results.

    • Detailed description and hourly volume of courses taken since the beginning of the university program.

    • VAP file (obligatory for all persons requesting a valuation of the assets to enter the diploma).

    • Supporting documents :
      - Residence permit stating the country of residence of the first country
      - Or receipt of request stating the country of first asylum
      - Or document from the UNHCR granting refugee status
      - Or receipt of refugee status request delivered in France
      - Or residence permit stating the refugee status delivered in France
      - Or document stating subsidiary protection in France or abroad
      - Or document stating temporary protection in France or abroad.

    Contact(s)
    Course manager(s)
    Administrative office