这几天,曼彻斯特大学说要新增一个授课型硕士项目 —— MSc Economics and Data Science。看这项目名称,又是经济学,又是数据科学,基本可以预见到,24fall会收到很多很多的申请。
把经济学和数据科学凑到一起搞成硕士项目,其实曼大的动作已经算慢了。今年7月的时候,剑桥大学的经济系就说要开一个“经济学+数据科学”的硕士。而且在剑桥之前,英国已经有好几所大学就这么干了。
如果有学生心想:读了这样的一个硕士项目,能在经济学和数据科学这2方面都学到很多。
那我觉得有点不现实了。看看这几家的课程:
University of Manchester
MSc Economics and Data Science
核心课
Microeconomic Theory,Macroeconomic Theory,Econometric Methods,Data Science & Machine Learning 1,Data Science & Machine Learning 2,Skills for Data Scientists
选修课
Financial Econometrics,Applied Macroeconometrics,Microeconometrics,Healthcare Economics,Economics of Environmental Policy,Labour Economics
核心课里DS相关的课占比还行,选修课里都是经济学的课
University of Cambridge
MPhil in Economics and Data Science
核心课
Microeconomics for Data Science,Econometric Methods,Fundamentals of Data Science,Machine Learning in Economics,Causal Inference and Machine Learning,Research Computing,Seminar Series and Case Studies
选修课
Economic Analysis of Non-Standard Data,Introduction to Algorithmic Trading Robot Design,Industrial Organisation,Applied Macroeconomics,Applied Econometrics,Advanced Macroeconomics,Econometrics II: Time Series
Econometrics II: Cross Section and Panel Data,Public Economics,Economics of Ageing,Behavioural Economics,Economics of Networks,International Trade
Corporate Finance
核心课里DS相关的课占比还行,选修课里绝大部分都是经济学的课
University College London
Data Science and Public Policy (Economics) MSc
必修课
Econometrics,Microeconomics,Macroeconomics,Dissertation,Machine Learning in Economics,Statistical Learning for Public Policy,Statistical Programming for Social Data Science,Data, Evidence and Public Policy
选修课
Time Series Econometrics,Advanced Microeconometrics,Public Microeconomics,Health Economics,Macroeconomic Policy,Environmental Economics: Principles and Policy,Behavioural Economics,Economics of Development,Data Science Theory,Advanced Quantitative Methods,Quantitative Text Analysis for Social Science
核心课里DS相关的课占比还行,选修课里大部分都是经济学的课
University of Nottingham
Economics and Data Science MSc
核心课
Big Data Economics,Machine Learning for Economics,Econometric Theory,Economic Data Analysis,Economic Research Methodology,Microeconomic Theory/Macroeconomic Theory(二选一)
选修课(以下课程里选三门)
Advanced Macroeconomic Methods,Advanced Microeconomic Theory,Applied Behavioural Economics,Applied Microeconometrics,Behavioural Economic Theory,Development Policy Analysis,Development Microeconomics
Financial and Macroeconometrics,Economics of Corporate Finance,Economics of Household Finance,Experimental Methods in Economics,International Macroeconomics,International Trade Theory,Monetary Theory and Practice
Time Series Econometrics,Trade Analysis and Policy
核心课里和DS相关的课占比不高,选修课里没什么和DS有关的课
University of Glasgow
Data Analytics for Economics and Finance MSc
核心课
Applied Time Series and Forecasting,Microeconometrics: Impact Evaluation and Casual Analysis,StatisticalMachine Learning,Bayesian Data Analysis
选修课
Text as Data for MSc,Deep Learning for MSc,Cybersecurity Fundamentals for MSc,Financial Information Retrveal,Applied Computational Finance,
Empirical Asset Pricing,Financial Market Microstructure,Data Science for Marketing Analytics,Dissertation(Industry Pathway or Research Pathway)
核心课里和DS有关的课不错,选修课里和DS有关的课占比倒是算高的了
University of Bristol
MSc Economics with Data Science
必修课
Economic Analytics,Econometrics with Python,Large-Scale Data Engineering Machine Learning for Economics,Dissertation,Programme Evaluation with Data Project,Econometrics beyond the mean,Applied Financial Econometrics,Health Economics with Data Application,Empirical Industrial Organisation,Labour Economics with Data Applications,Development Economics with Data Application
和DS有关的课占比还行
Newcastle University
Economics and Data Science MSc
必修课
Microeconomics,Macroeconomics,Mathematical Analysis,Econometrics
Numerical Methods and Scientific Programming,Applied Data Science
选修课(以下课程里选一门)
Topics in Microeconomics,Topics in Macroeconomics,Causal Inference and Applied Microeconometrics,Applied Time series econometrics,Experimental Methods in Economics,Behavioural Economics,Mathematics Foundations
也就2门和DS相关的课,甚至可以说只有一门
University of Liverpool
MSc Data Science for Economics
课程
Econometrics and Statistical Methods,Macroeconomic Analysis,Microeconomic Analysis,Data Management and Visualisation for Economics
Applied Macroeconometrics,Applied Microeconometrics,Machine Learning and Big Data Econometrics,Money and Banking,Current Topics in Economics,Labour Economics,Public Economics
也就2门和DS相关的课
就我觉得吧,这些“经济学+数据科学”的硕士,大部分项目骨子里还是经济学,
学生能额外收获的可能是,多一个从数据科学角度去认知和理解经济学,
数据科学这方面的技能的训练,在这样的硕士项目就读期间,不会得到很大的提升,除非学生课外额外自学
然后,我还没去查其他还有哪些英国大学也开设了“经济学+数据科学”的硕士,
如果还不多的话,可能后面其他的英国大学也会纷纷效仿