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What are the career options for economics post graduates?

Hey I wish to know whether there are abroad opportunities in this field for work and studying. Also choosing economics is a lucrative option or not if one wishes to go abroad?

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RE: What are the career options for economics post graduates?

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Thank you for choosing CareerGuide.com!!! and writing to us. I appreciate your interest in Economics and it is definitely a well established field of opportunity in India. Economics is relatively well developed through out the globe and you can certainly choose to study abroad for a post graduate course in economics. But I wouldn't also say that India is less developed in this system. But the opportunities available abroad are comparatively more to India. For example, studying abroad have options to specialise a degree in quantitative Economics itself where in India students get an opportunity to only study this subject as an elective/ major in their MA Economics program. Like wise the concentrations available with in Economics are in variety abroad compared to the number of choices that Indian institutions provide.

Choosing abroad really requires you to analyse if you want to study a specialisation in depth that is exclusively not provided by Indian institutions. As I mentioned above, if you want a degree like MA/ MSc Quantitative Economics, MA/ MSc Econometrics or an MA/ MSc Health Economics then for this reasons choosing to study abroad is considerable. In case you want to do only MA Economics and are not bothered about specialisations then studying in India itself is considerable.

Again work opportunities are better for Economics subject all around the world and it does include India too. Considering India's play in the global economy there are many job opportunities that India could throw in for you in the field of Economics. It is been a fashion for students to get a specialist route in Economics like the Agriculture economics, food economics, health economics, Tourism economics or the trade Economics. Not all these specialisations are theoretically taught at most universities in India but are adopted at work where as abroad universities offer specialised degrees in these lucrative modules. If you are serious about studying MA/ MSc Economics abroad, I can recommend some top universities world wide.
  1. Harvard University USA ( www.harvard.edu/)
  2. LSE UK ( www.lse.ac.uk/)
  3. Massachusetts Institute of technology USA ( www.mitadmissions.org apply International Applicants)
  4. University of Chicago USA ( www.uchicago.edu/)
  5. University of California Berkeley USA ( www.berkeley.edu/)
  6. Stanford USA ( https://www.stanford.edu/)
  7. Cambridge university UK( www.cam.ac.uk/)
  8. Princeton USA ( www.princeton.edu/)
  9. Yale university USA ( www.yale.edu/)
  10. Columbia university USA ( www.columbia.edu/)

If you consider studying in the USA and Singapore, a GRE General test and an IELTS/ TOEFL is required. If you study else where an IELTS test is required. If you require any further help please write back. Good luck.

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