Central Department of Economics
Kritipur
Kritipur
CEDECON has been offering Master’s level program in Economics since its inception in 1960. The students are awarded with Master’s of Arts in Economics (MA in Economics) degree after the completion of the prescribed course. While CEDECON was offering the MA Economics course under annual system, CEDECON has recently introduced semester systems with the objecting of excelling teaching and learning activities in the CEDECON.
MA in Economics under semester system is a two year program consisting of four semesters. The students will have to go through the various compulsory papers pertaining to core courses and can choose the specialized courses from wide variety of optional papers (See Course Details below). The first two semesters consist compulsory papers whereas students will have opportunity to choose among specialized courses during third and fourth semester.
Course Details
| I Semester | II Semester | ||
| Courses | Credit | Courses | Credit |
| Micro Economics – I | 4 | Micro Economics-II | 4 |
| Macro Economics – I | 4 | Macro Economics –II | 4 |
| Mathematical Methods | 4 | Statistical Methods | 4 |
| Economics of Development &Planning – I | 3 | Economics of Development & Planning- II | 3 |
| Total Credit | 15 | Total Credit | 15 |
| III Semester | IV Semester | ||
| Courses | Credit | Courses | Credit |
| Monetary Economics | 3 | Financial Economics | 3 |
| Public Economics – I | 3 | Public Economics – II | 3 |
| Research Methodology | 3 | Nepalese Economy | 3 |
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Optional (9 credit form the following) |
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| Optional (Any two: Six credit) | |||
| Thesis writing | 6 | ||
| Econometrics | 3 | Mathematical Economics | 3 |
| Environmental Economics | 3 | Natural Resource Economics | 3 |
| International Economics | 3 | International Finance and Economic Cooperation | 3 |
| Economic Demography | 3 | Economics of Human Resource Development | 3 |
| Managerial Economics | 3 | Applied Statistics | 3 |
| Industrial Economics | 3 | Economics of Energy | 3 |
| Economics of Agricultural Development | 3 | Economics of Tourism | 3 |
| History of Economic Thought | 3 | Health Economics | 3 |
| Total Credit | 15 | Total Credit |