MRes/PhD in Economics (2022 Entry)
You will receive exceptionally high-quality training in advanced economics, giving you outstanding opportunities to understand, appreciate and contribute to frontier research.
You will gain a thorough understanding of research techniques and an in-depth appreciation of the principal areas of concern for researchers in economics. Our PhD graduates are placed in pre-eminent university departments including Oxford, Cambridge, Toronto, Bocconi and Tilburg.
Teaching and learning
You will have 9 hours of lectures per week in year one and 4-5 hours of seminars. In year two, teaching is mainly on a seminar basis (6-9 hours per week) with seminar groups of between 3 and 15 students maximum. Assessment is a mixture of class tests, exams, presentations and referee reports.
You will also be heavily involved in developing your own research with one of our leading academics in the form of your MRes dissertation (max of 20,000 words).
Application guidance
A research proposal is not necessary at the stage of application; all successful applicants enrol in the MRes degree first, but you can upload a statement of purpose if you wish.
Further information on application guidance is available on the Economics Department website.
This course is open for applications from 1st December 2021 and close 15th January 2022.
First Class undergraduate degree (or equivalent) and/or MSc with distinction, as well as GRE General Test quantitative section scores of 800/166.
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- Band B
- IELTS overall score of 7.0, minimum component scores of two at 6.0/6.5 and the rest at 7.0 or above.
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There are no additional entry requirements for this course.
96% of our research was deemed to be world leading in the most recent REF (2014). We have five separate seminar series running on a weekly basis (term time), with invited eminent speakers from around the world. MRes and PhD students are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Areas for PhD supervision
We have active research groups in:
- Applied Economics
- Economic History
- Development Economics
- Economic Theory
- Econometrics
- Education
- Industrial Economics
- International Economics
- Labour Economics
- Macroeconomics
- Political Economy
- Public Economics
- Experimental and Behavioural Economics
Please do not write to members of faculty regarding supervision or entry to the PhD, as we do not recruit PhD students in this way.
All of our PhD students must either complete the MRes Economics at Warwick or demonstrate they have completed a two-year MRes at another institution (with a syllabus closely matching that taught at Warwick) and achieved excellent results.