Admission to the Master Program in Economics is determined by a selection procedure that assesses a student’s suitability for the program. This procedure establishes whether applicants who have obtained their Bachelor’s qualification in Economics (or in a subject that is similar in terms of content and methodology) at universities other than LMU are able to fulfil the particular requirements for participation in the Master program.

Requirements include a good understanding of the subjects and methods covered in a Bachelor’s Program in Economics, particularly in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Empirical Economics.

To gain an idea of the expected requirements in economics for the Master Program, you should compare your course studies with our B.Sc. Program and our B.Sc. Examination Regulations in German (Prüfungsordnung PO 2013). A compilation of information about the compulsory courses in Economics is compiled in a excerpt [pdf, 134 kB] of our official course catalogue.

In addition to their qualification in Economics applicants must be able to prove they have sufficient command of the English language (refer to the list of Evidence).

Test of admission

Those candidates whose grade is worse than 2.0 but at least 2.5 OR for whom the equivalence of their qualification cannot be unambiguously established, but whose qualification is assessed to have sufficient proximity to Economics in terms of content and methods (and whose grade is at least 2.5) will be invited to take a written test of admission. These selected applicants will get an invitation by email at least two weeks before the date of the test.

The test of admission for winter term 2018/2019 will take place on June 9th, 2018 and is only offered in Munich. The exact time and place will be announced in the invitation to the test.

http://www.en.master.econ.uni-muenchen.de/application/application_process/org_test_of_adm/index.html

• Evidence of sufficient knowledge of English:
• proven either by an university degree at an English-language institution of higher education
• by a TOEFL total score of at least 80 points (iBT),  or an academic IELTS overall band score of 6.5 points. (screenshot or scan of the test result is sufficient!)
• No other proofs of sufficient command of English can be accepted.
• If you are not able to provide your TOEFL/IELTS score at the time of application you may upload an informal petition instead on our online-tool which says that you are going to hand in your result after the application deadline via email. (Deadline: 31 August).