Different types of master degrees in economics

Graduate School
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<p>So I went to give my paper on banking regulation in and the teacher’s assistant told me it was an excellent paper, it was very very good. I then told him I wanna study in the US/UK, he said I should go talk with the macroeconomics professor, told me he has contacts with LSE, UCL but he didn’t know about the US.</p>

<p>He then said that I should also look at what kind of economics I want to study, because each university is different in some respect, some teach liberal economics, neo-liberal, some keynesian,…I have no freaking idea what to look up for, I just wanna study economics/finance.</p>

<p>He told me to get my grades up, mine aren’t very very good but I passed everything. He also said that the papers I give in, especially the bachelor’s degree paper also count a lot and that by looking at my banking regulation paper, he said my bachelor degree could count a lot cuz it will most likely be very good.</p>

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<p>Does this mean that employers later look at what uni you went to to determine what kind of economics you studied?</p>

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<p>I think they were saying that some universities are stronger in certain areas than others (i.e. labor economics, international finance, etc) and that you should look more at programs that match your interests.</p>

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<p>I don’t think so. He was literally talking about different economic currents: neo-liberal, liberal, keynesian, austrian, chicago,…</p>

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<p>I don’t think employers will care if you graduated from a department that’s more neo-classical than Keynesian, if that’s what you’re asking.</p>

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<p>Unless those employers are explicitly ideological. The Heritage Foundation is unlikely to hire a Keynesian, for example, while the Brookings Institution will probably toss the application of an Austrian.</p>