INTERNATIONAL MASTERS
IN ECONOMY,
STATE & SOCIETY

with reference to
Central & Eastern Europe

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IMESS: INTERNATIONAL MASTERS
IN ECONOMY, STATE & SOCIETY
with reference to Central and Eastern Europe

120 ECTS over 2 years

UK - Czech Republic - Estonia - Finland
Hungary - Poland - Russia - Serbia (new from 2012)

Applications for 2012 entry and
scholarships are welcome.

The International Masters in Economy, State and Society (IMESS) is an established two-year double degree Masters programme, taught in English and offered by a consortium of leading European universities headed by UCL - London’s research and teaching powerhouse and one of the top five
universities worldwide (THES–QS 2009). The consortium also includes Associate Partners from the corporate sector (banks, businesses, libraries, NGOs etc) and besides academic excellence we emphasize the value of internship experience for our students (e.g see more on internship opportunities in Tartu, Estonia). IMESS draws on an unparalleled pool of resources to offer the definitive Masters course focusing on the economies, states and societies of Central and Eastern Europe.

The programme offers three distinct study tracks, reflecting the unique multidisciplinary expertise of the consortium institutions. The study tracks are:

• Politics and Security
• Economics and Business*
• Nation, History and Society
* To be eligible for the Economics and Business track, applicants must normally have studied both Macroeconomics and Microeconomics as part of their undergraduate degree.

Each track combines specialist electives (economics, politics, society or history), research methods training (social sciences or humanities), and language tuition (Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Russian or Serbo-Croatian) with an advanced research dissertation conducted during the latter part of the degree.

Click here for a detailed Programme Overview and country-specific course requirements.

Who is IMESS for?

The Masters programme is designed to attract and challenge the brightest EU and international students (final year undergraduates may apply) as well as professionals wishing to retrain to acquire European expertise and meet the challenges of the changing global environment. Evidence of English language ability is essential but there are no other language pre-requisites. Students from all states may apply to the programme and there are IMESS Scholarships for both EU and non-EU students.

What is IMESS for?

The central objective of the programme is to enhance global understanding and awareness of the wider European region. As well as developing cultural and linguistic knowledge of both Eastern and Western Europe, participants acquire the skills to identify and critically analyse key factors shaping the economies, states and societies of the expanding European region.

IMESS is creating a pool of expertise for conducting advanced research for public or private sector organisations and is fast becoming the programme of choice for students with a serious interest in the economies, states and societies of the wider European region.

Enquiries to: Programme Admissions with subject line: 'IMESS enquiry'