M.Sc. Economic Research

Bachelor's degree (minimum grade 2.5) as well as fulfillment of subject-related and language requirements. The admission requirements are regulated in the current admission regulations, see "Important documents".

Application in the case of unfinished Bachelor studies: In cases where present Bachelor studies have not been fully completed, application is permitted if the candidate has earned at least 70 % of the required credits and will have achieved the remaining results by 30 September at the latest. The minimum grade as well as the subject-related and language requirements must already have been fulfilled on the basis of the exam results available at the time of application.

Applicants who do not have a German bachelor's degree must additionally submit a [preliminary review documentation (VPD) from uni-assist](https://my.uni-assist.de/). You can have your documents checked by uni-assist all year round, the VPD is not tied to an application semester.

Subject-related requirements

1. at least 36 ECTS in the fields of Business Administration and/or Economics

2. - from this 18 ECTS in the field of Economics

3. at least 15 ECTS in the fields of Statistics and/or Mathematics and/or Econometrics (only modules with mathematical and/or statistical methodological skills; pure (software) application skills are not accepted)

[PDF of personal subject-related admission criteria ](https://wiso.uni-koeln.de/sites/fakultaet/dokumente/downl...)(see application documents)