The Master of Economic Policy’s rigorous training in policy economics will attracts outstanding students to the University. In particular influential economic policymakers in prominent organs of national executive government (especially PM&C and Treasury) have found the MEc Pol’s focus on national policy issues very rewarding. The degrees accommodation of a focus on regional economic policy (through coursework choices and research) is worth stressing.

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. apply economics to policy formation and evaluation;
2. understand the issues involved in the coordination of economic policies at national and international levels;
3. access the academic literature on economic policy;
4. undertake independent research in economic theory at the graduate level and provide economic intuition for the results;
5. analyse the economic effects of policy changes and to communicate them as a professional economist in business or government;