Required Curriculum
Credit Requirements for Graduation:
Postgraduate students in the Masters program must reach the minimum of 32 credits. Students in the Ph. D program (including Masters-Ph. D transfers) must reach the minimum of 44 credits, and must participate in seminars every semester until reaching the fifth year. These credits do not include the master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation.
Study Period:
Our department’s study period for the MA degree is 1 to 4 years; for the Ph. D degree, it’s 2-7 years.
Other Requirements:
(一) Ph. D students who enrolled after the 2014 school year, must have certification of TOEFL iBT 79 or higher (or CBT TOEFL 213 or higher; or PBT TOEFL 550 or higher) before graduation. Students can also take the Online English Program (III) course of the university instead.
(二) For other related requirements of our departments’ Ph. D students, please see “Ph. D Candidates Qualification Assessment and Procedures”(博士學位候選人資格考核實施辦法).
Required Classes for the Masters Program:
Courses |
Credits |
Introduction To Quantitative Method |
2 |
Microeconomic Theory I |
4 |
Macroeconomic Theory I |
4 |
Econometric Theory I, II |
4 |
2 Fields of Specialization
(Minimum of two courses per field) |
|
Seminars
(Required for three semesters) |
3 |
Required Classes for the Ph. D Program:
Courses |
Credits |
Introduction To Quantitative Method |
2 |
Microeconomic Theory I, II |
8 |
Macroeconomic Theory I, II |
8 |
Econometric Theory III, IV |
8 |
Seminar in Methodology of Economics |
2 |
2 Fields of Specialization
(Minimum of 8 credits per field) |
16 |
Seminars
(Required every semester until the fifth year) |
|
Electives Courses:
International Finance, International Trade, New Trade Theory, Monetary Theory and Policy, Regional Economics, Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Social Economics, Family Economics, Population Economics, Labor Market, Industrial Organization, Firm Strategy, Economics of Uncertainty, Selected Readings in Famous Economic Works, Health Economics, Microeconometrics and Application, Inframarginal Economics, Nonlinear Dynamical Economics, Financial Engineering and Banking Calculations (I), Financial Engineering and Math (I), etc.
Elective Fields：
International Trade, International Finance, Regional Economics, Economic Development and Policy, Econometrics, Industrial Economics, Human Resources, Public Economics, Law Economics, Environment and Health, Finance Economics, Economic History and Methodology, Monetary Theory, Game Theory and Mathematical Economics, etc.
Masters- PhD Transfers:
For MA students that wish to transfer to the Ph. D program, the requirements include studying for a year on the MA program, class ranks in the top one-third of the class for two semesters, or other special circumstances that the department appraise to be of excellence performance. Students interested for the application of transferring should fill out the “National Taiwan University PhD Transfer Application” (國立台灣大學逕修博士學位申請書; available at the department office), and submit a report card of at least one year of grades from the Masters program as well as recommendation letters from at least two professors. The application should be submitted before the school year ends (July 31).
The studying period begins from the time of entering the Ph. D program.
