The Master of Economics reputation for rigorous training in graduate economics - underlined by its research-active pedagogy - attracts outstanding students to the University. In particular influential economic policymakers in prominent organisations of national executive government (especially PM&C and Treasury) have found the MEc’s focus on national policy issues very rewarding. The degree's accommodation of a focus on Australia's place in the region (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. undertake formal economic analysis and empirically test solutions to economic problems;
2. possess the technical skills needed to access the academic literature in most fields of study in economics;
3. to assimilate the significant content of recent developments in both theoretical and applied economics;
4. undertake independent research in economic theory at the graduate level and provide economic intuition for the results