Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales

Highlights

• Application for admission: Applications are managed by the Centre of Postgraduate Studies (Centro de Estudios de Posgrado) at the UAM.
• Teaching in English: In the MIE, all courses are fully taught in English.
• Internships in prestigious institutions: The MIE has signed internship agreements with public and private institutions of relevance: AIReF, Bank of Spain, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Ministry of Finance and Public Administration, CNMV, ICEX, BBVA, Banco Santander, etc. They last between 3 and 9 months and in some cases are paid.
• Stays abroad: The MIE offers the possibility of studying one semester at one of the European universities with which the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration has Erasmus agreements. Likewise, the MIE maintains a stable exchange of students with Kiel University and the prestigious Advanced Studies Program of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Germany).

Admission process:

• Background knowledge: The Master in International Economics is competitive and only around a fifth of all applicants are admitted to the programme. In general, we require very good grades in theoretical and quantitative courses at the undergraduate level (especially in microeconomics, macroeconomics, mathematics, statistics and econometrics).
• English: To be admitted, students need to have a CEFR level of at least B2. For example, the minimum IELTS test score is 5.5 and the minimum TOEFL iBT test score 72. The Centre of Postgraduate Studies of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid can provide more information on the certificates that are accepted.
• Choice of professional or research track: The choice between the professional and the research track is revocable; that is, the student who is admitted to the programme can change his choice once the programme has started. Students in the professional track do an internship in an institution or firm at the end of the master and students in the research track follow a course on methods of economic investigation and write a longer master thesis (which they also have to defend before a tribunal).