The MAppEc rigorous training in econometric and quantitative methods will attracts outstanding students to the University. In particular influential economic policy advisors in prominent organs of national executive government (especially PM&C and Treasury) have found very appealing the way the MAppEc provides a training in putting national policy issues in a quantified frame.

Graduates from ANU have been rated as Australia's most employable graduates and among the most sought after by employers worldwide.

The latest Global Employability University Ranking, published by the Times Higher Education, rated ANU as Australia's top university for getting a job for the fourth year in a row.

Learning Outcomes

1. access the technical academic literature in most fields of study in applied economics and econometrics;
2. be capable of undertaking independent research in applied economics and econometrics at the graduate level and provide intuition for the results;
3. have the capacity to analyse the economic effects of policy changes in several fields of economics.