MSc in Microeconomics
Course Overview
The MSc in Microeconomics at LSLPE is a UK Level 7 Master's degree running one year full-time or two years part-time across on-campus, online and distance routes. The programme delivers senior microeconomic capability across market design, consumer theory, industrial organisation, contract theory and applied policy microeconomics. Modules trace how microeconomic method is used inside HM Treasury, the Competition and Markets Authority-adjacent research houses, City consulting and IFS-aligned think tanks.
By graduation you will have run applied identification exercises, produced structural-model briefs, drafted a market-design proposal, and completed a dissertation, capstone or sponsor consulting project of around 15,000 words for a firm, regulator or think tank.
Key Features
- UK Level 7 MSc with dissertation, capstone or sponsor consulting project.
- Reading list aligned with Royal Economic Society (RES), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and CFA UK publication conventions.
- Senior seminars set in a research-informed tradition with tutors from academic, City and regulator backgrounds.
- Applied assignments in identification-note, structural-model brief and market-design format.
- Applied labs in R and Stata for micro-econometrics.
- Live-client sponsor projects with regulator, City firm or think-tank partners.
What You Will Learn
- Apply modern identification strategies to microeconomic data.
- Design and defend a structural microeconometric model.
- Read and use the leading contract-theory results.
- Analyse industrial-organisation policy and market power questions.
- Draft a market-design proposal for a regulator-facing audience.
- Complete an MSc-standard dissertation of around 15,000 words.
- Use R and Stata to production standard for microeconometrics.
- Present findings at senior-seminar standard.
Who This Course Is For
- Working analysts in HM Treasury, regulators, think tanks or consulting firms.
- Bachelor's graduates progressing to senior microeconomics practice.
- Career-changers from finance or research into applied microeconomics.
- International applicants preparing for senior public-service or multilateral roles.
- Aspiring economic consultants, industrial-organisation experts and market designers.
Career Pathways
- Economic Consultant
- Regulatory Economist
- Government Economist
- Research Economist
- Econometrician
- Behavioural Economist
- Labour Market Analyst
- Financial Economist
The LSLPE careers service links MSc in Microeconomics students with IFS-adjacent think tanks, Competition and Markets Authority-adjacent research houses, City economic-consulting firms and Government Economic Service pipelines.
Entry Requirements
- A UK Bachelor's degree (2:2 or above) or equivalent international qualification in economics, mathematics, statistics or a quantitative discipline.
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- Applicants without a Bachelor's degree but with 5+ years of senior professional experience in applied economics are considered on portfolio.
- One academic and one professional reference.
- A 500-word research proposal or professional practice statement.
Why Study at LSLPE
LSLPE reads microeconomics inside a school where the legal and political constraints on market design are examined alongside method. The MSc sits in small senior-seminar cohorts drawn from academic, City and regulator practice.
Central London puts HM Treasury, the Bank of England, IFS, the leading regulator-adjacent research houses and City consulting firms within a short tube ride of every seminar. Three parallel study modes let working economists complete the MSc without leaving employment, and the careers service refreshes curriculum alignment annually against RES guidance.
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