For students looking to study and analyze pressing economic problems using advanced data analytic techniques, the University of Essex MSc Economics with Data Analytics is the right choice. The Department of Economics and the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering have created a joint course that allows students to develop the economic and computational tools to not just isolate problems but also develop sophisticated evidence-based answers.

Students have the opportunity to learn the essentials of economics, so they can build a grounding to analyze economic problems, students will then build on this knowledge with programming skills. Essex combines these two approaches in a series of applications that allow students to access and process big data using advanced econometrics and also apply computational techniques to questions of financial economics and macroeconomics.