Eco études

Point of attention

This training program is suspended. Only current students (enrolled in 2024-2025) will be able to re-enroll and complete their course.

To access teacher training and teach secondary 4 to 6, you must:

  • either undertake a master's degree in teaching section 4 (120 credits), after a disciplinary bachelor's degree (180 credits)
  • or take a master's degree in teaching section 5 (60 credits), after a disciplinary bachelor's degree (180 credits) and a disciplinary master's degree (60 or 120 credits)

More information on initial teacher training

Présentation

How to explain the strategy of companies such as AirBnB or Uber?

Should an employer pay employees according to the results achieved?

How to reduce poverty and inequality in emerging countries?

What is the impact of aging on the viability of our pension system?

Should we allow free choice of school in Belgium?

How do we define and measure the prosperity of a region, a country...?

Could the Euro crisis have been avoided?

These are just some of the concrete economic and social questions you'll be asked to solve as economists.

Vos objectifs

Your objectives

  • develop a global vision of an economic situation: "Helicopter view and Strategic thinking". Analyze data with precision, detect the causes and consequences of an action;
  • participate in the development of new ways of organizing companies, institutions or society as a whole;
  • acquire international experience;
  • work in teams with specialists from other disciplines.

Les atouts du master joint UNamur – UCLouvain

  • Un master d’excellence
    Reconnu parmi les 25 meilleurs masters en économie d’Europe.
     
  • Une expérience internationale et multilingue
    50% des étudiants sont internationaux.
    Possibilité de suivre les cours en français ou en anglais.
     
  • Échange Erasmus
    Profitez d’un séjour d’études d’un quadrimestre dans une université étrangère en Europe ou au-delà !
     
  • Stage
    Profitez d’un stage dans une entreprise partenaire durant un quadrimestre, en Belgique ou à l’étranger.
     
  • Double Diplôme et collaboration avec la KU Leuven
    Passez un an à l’étranger et une année en Belgique pour obtenir deux diplômes. Les doubles diplômes peuvent se dérouler à : Maastricht, Milan, Sao Paulo, Medellín… ! Vous pouvez également suivre des cours à la KU Leuven.

The program

Courses, case studies, meetings with professionals, group work, internships in Belgium or abroad... everything is done to ensure the development of your expertise.

By choosing the finalité didactique, you prepare to teach in the upper cycle of secondary education.

The options

Thanks to the co-organization with UCLouvain, you are graduates of both universities!

This master's degree offers you an unrivalled choice of options and courses. It's up to you to choose the areas that interest you.

It's possible to follow the whole program in Namur, but to limit travel if you choose an option in Louvain-la-Neuve (LLN), the 3 courses of each option are given on the same day.

Beware, whichever option you select, registration for this master's degree is exclusively at UCLouvain.

  • Economics of public intervention (in Namur): to study the causes and consequences of state intervention in the economy.
  • Macroeconomics: structural policies (in Namur): to evaluate European, federal and regional structural economic policies.
  • Finance: markets (in Namur): to analyze the functioning of financial markets and financial institutions.
  • Development: poverty and institutions (in Namur): to study issues of poverty, inequality, market imperfections; to identify the role of institutions, analyze environmental transformations.
  • Macroeconomics: cycles and conjuncture (at LLN): to analyze conjuncture, short-term fluctuations and understand the role of macroeconomic equilibria.
  • Finance: money (at LLN): to analyze the foundations of monetary policy, the role of money, financial markets and foreign exchange.
  • Development: growth and globalization (at LLN): to study the macroeconomics of developing countries, growth and identify obstacles to growth.
  • Labor economics and human resources/Labour economics and human resource (at LLN): to understand how the labor market works, unemployment and corporate human resource policies.
  • Economics and society (at LLN): to carry out an economic analysis in dialogue with other social sciences through various themes: social policies, redistributive mechanisms, the non-market sector, etc.
  • Firms strategies (at LLN): to understand the specific features of innovation markets, the characteristics of network industries, integration and differentiation strategies, competition policy objectives.
  • International economics (at LLN): to understand trade policies, trade liberalization, economic integration; to identify the winners and losers of international trade; to examine the determinants of firm location and the value of clusters.
You complete your program with a choice of courses in econometrics, languages and statistics, and complete a dissertation in the service of a project, business or more academic reflection where you exploit the knowledge and skills acquired.

Les options

Grâce à la co-organisation avec l’UCLouvain, vous êtes diplômés des deux universités !

Ce master vous propose un choix inégalé d’options et de cours qui portent la couleur d’une ou de plusieurs filières :

  • Macroéconomie et finance
  • Affaires et politiques publiques
  • Stratégie des firmes et marchés
  • Développement soutenable
Master en sciences économiques - filières des options

Options

Thanks to the co-organization with UCLouvain, you are graduates of both universities!

This master's degree offers you an unrivalled choice of options and courses. It's up to you to choose the areas that interest you.

It's possible to follow the whole program in Namur, but to limit travel if you choose an option in Louvain-la-Neuve (LLN), the 3 courses of each option are given on the same day.

Beware, whichever option you select, registration for this master's degree is exclusively at UCLouvain

  • Economics of public intervention (in Namur): to study the causes and consequences of state intervention in the economy.
  • Macroeconomics: structural policies (in Namur): to evaluate European, federal and regional structural economic policies.
  • Finance: markets (in Namur): to analyze the functioning of financial markets and financial institutions.
  • Development: poverty and institutions (in Namur): to study issues of poverty, inequality, market imperfections; to identify the role of institutions, analyze environmental transformations.
  • Macroeconomics: cycles and conjuncture (at LLN): to analyze conjuncture, short-term fluctuations and understand the role of macroeconomic equilibria.
  • Finance: money (at LLN): to analyze the foundations of monetary policy, the role of money, financial markets and foreign exchange.
  • Development: growth and globalization (at LLN): to study the macroeconomics of developing countries, growth and identify obstacles to growth.
  • Labor economics and human resources/Labour economics and human resource (at LLN): to understand how the labor market works, unemployment and corporate human resource policies.
  • Economics and society (at LLN): to carry out an economic analysis in dialogue with other social sciences through various themes: social policies, redistributive mechanisms, the non-market sector, etc.
  • Firms strategies (at LLN): to understand the specific features of innovation markets, the characteristics of network industries, integration and differentiation strategies, competition policy objectives.
  • International economics (at LLN): to understand trade policies, trade liberalization, economic integration; to identify the winners and losers of international trade; to examine the determinants of firm location and the value of clusters.
You complete your program with a choice of courses in econometrics, languages and statistics, and complete a dissertation in the service of a project, business or more academic reflection where you exploit the knowledge and skills acquired.

Les autres masters en économie

Other Masters in Economics

Daytime

The master 120 in economics

The master 60 in economics

Staggered schedule

The master 120 in economics, staggered schedule

The master 60 in economics, staggered schedule

Et après le master

Do you want to go further and acquire cutting-edge skills in specific areas of management and economics?
The EMCP Faculty offers you masters specializations in Management and Economics of Sustainable Development as well as in International and Development Economics.

Do you want to empower young people to learn and collaborate, guide them, help them become agents of change?
Find out how to become a teacher in upper secondary (secondary 4-6) after your master's degree.

The University of Namur offers the Master 120 in economic sciences jointly with the UCLouvain.

Full details of the programme are available on the website of the UCLouvain.

To register for the Master's program, please contact UCLouvain. 

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Admission requirements

Les conditions d'admission à ce master codiplômé entre l'UNamur et l'UCLouvain sont décrites sur le site de l'UCLouvain.

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This programme is organised jointly with UCLouvain. To enrol for this programme, please exclusively contact UCLouvain.

Economists' professions

Between strategy, consulting and decision-making

As economists, you approach the complex realities of companies, institutions and society with nuance, and propose economic models adapted to their new organizational modes.

You cooperate with specialists from other disciplines and master multilingual communication and the international dimension of your projects.

Sensitive to the human and ethical dimensions of economic and social issues, you measure the interdependencies between the decisions of multiple players and develop opportunities for cooperation.

Some examples of professions

As recent graduates, you are often inserted into the management of a project. Working alone or as part of a team, you provide analyses or propose actions to achieve a given objective, within a set timeframe, with available resources or whose mobilization you organize. Your excellent analytical skills, your sense of communication, your knowledge of foreign languages, your international outlook and above all your desire to learn are
also important assets for many professions.

Finance

The financial sector (banking, insurance, administration...) is the leading employer for our graduates. Every company, from family-run SMEs to multinationals, needs reliable financial indicators to draw up realistic budgets and plans. The range of professions open to those with a passion for numbers is wide:

  • Financial analysis: dissecting balance sheets, evaluating credits, advising investors;
  • Customer advice in a credit organization;
  • Internal auditing: verifying internal procedures for good governance and generating reliable financial statements;
  • External auditing: verification of the quality and accuracy of financial information provided;
  • risk management: the assessment and modeling of all risks likely to weigh on an organization;
  • fund accounting: daily calculation of the inventory value of several investment funds;
  • etc..

Commerce and distribution

Negotiating, obtaining the best prices, prospecting for new suppliers, monitoring the development of new packaging, optimizing the routing of products to customers... so many missions with responsibilities relating to sales and distribution. Alongside strictly sales-oriented companies such as supermarkets, industries and certain service companies also offer numerous career opportunities in purchasing, marketing and logistics.

Socio-economic analysis and political decision-making

In public administrations, in the non-profit world, in mutual societies or political parties, in trade union organizations, development aid agencies or business federations, etc., economics graduates observe and analyze the socio-economic situation. By issuing opinions and advice, they participate in the implementation and operation of policies and legislation.

Research and teaching

Some graduates pursue a research activity in Belgium or abroad. They complete a doctorate or take part in a research program. Several alumni pass on their knowledge in secondary, higher and continuing education.

Job search assistance

The Employment Unit supports final-year Master's students and recent graduates in their career paths, via a number of services: distribution of job and internship offers, orientation interviews, workshops on themes linked to professional integration, information and documentation on the world of work.