Course details

Summary

Open up a world of employment options

With Massey’s Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Economics) you’ll build on your undergraduate interests and develop your analysis and research skills.

What is it Like?

With a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Economics) at Massey you’ll build on your undergraduate degree and further investigate topics in economics that have taken your interest.

On our economics programme you’ll investigate how businesses decide what to produce and how many people to employ, explore how people decide what to consume, and learn about big-picture world economics.

This programme will help you in your own decision-making and in better understanding developments in the economy and society in general. It offers ways of thinking about the world that let you make the best of what you have, and improve on it.

Investigate your interests further

Massey’s Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Economics) gives you flexibility in the subjects you study. You could explore topics such as international trade in agri-food products, or natural resource and environmental economics, for example.

Be sought-after by employers

Massey's economics programme has been acknowledged by employers for its quality and content. Our graduates are sought-after by major public and private sector employers. When you complete your postgraduate diploma, you could join our graduates working in prestigious organizations in New Zealand and around the world.

Careers

The skills and knowledge of trained economists are highly valued by the public and private sector, large and small firms, large international agencies, schools and universities, economic policy-makers and social organisations.

You might work as any of the following:

• Agricultural economist
• Business analyst
• Economic consultant
• Energy research officer
• Environmental economist
• Health economist
• International economist
• Microeconomics analyst

Treasury, the Reserve Bank and the World Bank all recruit economics graduates. But your degree can also be the gateway to employment in many other areas, such as management, planning, politics, education, finance and banking, journalism or the media.

Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Economics) structure

Students will complete 120 credits of 700 level courses, selected from those listed on the Economics schedule listed below.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Arts may be awarded with Distinction or Merit if study is completed to a superior/high standard, and where all requirements have been completed within one year for full-time study or within three years for part-time study.

The maximum time permitted for completion of this qualification is 4 years.

All courses are 30 credits each unless otherwise indicated.

125.785 Research Methods in Finance
178.702 Macroeconomics
178.703 The Theory and Practice of Economics
178.712 International Monetary Economics
178.713 Microeconomics
178.718 Health Economics
178.732 Advanced Econometrics
178.755 Economic Growth, International and Development Economics
178.775 The Economics of Knowledge and Innovation

Note: not all papers are available in each semester.

Entry criteria

You will have completed one of the following:

• Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Economics
• Bachelor’s degree with a minor in Economics, followed by a Graduate Certificate in Arts endorsed in Economics

Bachelor’s degree, followed by a Graduate Diploma in Arts, endorsed in Economics.

English language requirements:

• IELTS score of 6.5 (no band less than 6.0)
• TOEFL iBT score of 90 overall (min 20 in Writing)
• PTE Academic score of 58 Overall (min 50 in communicative skills)
• Cambridge English score of 180