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Study Details: MSc 12 months full time, 24 months part time
If you are an ambitious numerate graduate, or a practitioner in the field, this Masters degree will equip you with the analytical skills for a rewarding career supporting transport delivery and policy-making at national, regional and local levels.
You will develop a range of economic skills to help promote economic growth within a regulatory framework that minimises any damaging health and environmental impacts, while incentivising the best use of resources. You’ll also gain insights into how economics, planning, environmental science, modelling and engineering can work together to design sustainable solutions to global challenges.
Through studying transport economics, econometrics, cost-benefit analysis and economic research techniques, you’ll be able to develop transport networks founded on robust evidence, sustainable and equitable principles, state-of-the-art modelling, accurate data analysis, and an understanding of human psychology.
A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) in economics (single or joint honours).
Graduates from other disciplines with professional qualifications and experience in the sector will also be considered.
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A degree from the Institute for Transport Studies opens up a range of opportunities to develop a rewarding career. Transport consultancies are the largest employers of our graduates, but other common careers include those in government, academia, regulatory bodies, transport operators, logistics companies, not-for-profit and international agencies.
Our graduates work across the private and public sectors. Many work abroad, whether for UK companies with overseas offices, for international organisations or for national governments.
Examples of alumni job roles include:
Compulsory modules
Shaping Future Transport Systems 15 credits
Principles of Transport Economics 15 credits
Welfare Economics and Cost-Benefit Analysis 15 credits
Transport Econometrics 15 credits
Economics of Regulation 15 credits
Economic Appraisal and Economic Performance 15 credits
Transport Dissertation 60 credits
Transport Integrated Project 15 credits
Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)
Green Logistics 15 credits
Public Transport Planning and Management 15 credits
System Dynamics: Modelling Policy 15 credits
Choice Modelling and Stated Preference Survey Design 15 credits
Transport in Development 15 credits
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