Admission Guide

The ten-month program includes several elements:

• Courses: There will be 8-10 one-week and two-week courses in various important fields of international economics.
• Seminars: In addition there will be a number of one or two-day seminars given by representatives from international organisations, domestic policy institutions, academic institutions and international corporations.
• Written Exams: At the end of each course the participants will prove their skills in a written exam. The standard of these exams is expected to be comparable to an exam at the lecturer's home universities.
• Working Papers: As part of the Advanced Studies Program, participants are expected to prepare two working papers. As a rule, a paper should be a joint effort by two participants. There are also opportunities to write coauthored papers with researchers from the Kiel Institute. Participants who are heading for a Ph.D. after completion of the Advanced Studies Program can use the working papers to provide the foundation of their thesis. The papers are to be published in the Kiel Advanced Studies Working Paper Series.
• Conferences: The papers will be presented and discussed at special conferences; members of the Kiel University Faculty and of the Kiel Institute will be invited as discussants.
• New: Participants of the Advanced Studies Program have the opportunity to participate in selected courses of Kiel University's Ph.D. Program "Quantitative Economics".

Detailed information on the courses, seminars, lecturers and the time schedule of the Advanced Studies is given in the annual Program Guide.

After successful completion of the studies program participants will receive the Advanced Studies Certificate (A.S.C.) which contains a complete listing of the courses and seminars attended and acknowledges the personal record of the participants (working papers contributed, written exams passed successfully). Participants who continue their education at other European universities will obtain 6 ECTS points for a two-week course and 3 ECTS points for a one-week course.

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