Elective

Within the Elective, our curriculum offers you great flexibility to choose courses according to your interests. However, to qualify, courses must meet the following criteria:

• Related to Economics

• Master's level

• Final grade awarded (no workshop-type courses)

You can combine multiple courses to attain the required total of 6 ECTS.

Types of Eligible Courses:

1. Courses offered by WU's MSc Economics:

• All Field Courses and R&P Seminars of the MSc Economics are eligible as Elective.

• Some Mandatory Courses of the track that you are not enrolled in are eligible, too:

  • Applied Track: Economic Policy, Business Analytics, Political Economy, Public Economics, Topics in Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, and Topics in Applied Microeconomics

  • Sience Track: Advanced Macro I, Advanced Mirco II, Mathematics I/II, Probability and Statistics

Registration:

• Field Courses: via LPIS or email to exam.master@wu.ac.at (once LPIS registration has opened)

• R&P Seminars and mandatory courses: email to exam.master@wu.ac.at (once LPIS registration has opened)

• You will be registered by the examinations office if there are free spaces left after the end of LPIS registration.

2. Other Master's Level Courses at WU:

• Courses offered by other master's programs at WU:

  • Eligibility Check: Email to masterecon@wu.ac.at

    • Include link to course syllabus

  • Registration: We will register you if

    • Course fulfils the necessary criteria in form and content

    • Other program agrees

• "Additional Courses" – master's level courses, that are not part of a curriculum:

  • Find courses in the course catalog (Master's Programs/Additional Courses).

  • Eligibility Check: Email to  masterecon@wu.ac.at

    • Include link to course syllabus

  • Registration: LPIS

  • Recommended Additional Courses:

    • Scientific Working with R and LaTeX (offered in February and September)

    • SOLV and Reading Group – courses organized by ECON students

• WU courses that were already approved in the past 

  • See list here

  • Eligibility Check: Not necessary

  • Registration: See list

  
  

3. Courses from Other Universities (Austria and Abroad):

• Exchange semester:

  • Eligibility Check: Website for Credit Transfer and Learning Agreement . You can transfer:

    • Entire courses, or

    • Excess credits (if a course at the partner university has more credits than its equivalent in your curriculum).

• Other Austrian universities:

  • Eligibility Check: Email to studienrecht@wu.ac.at. Pre-recognition approval is required before starting the course.

• EU.ENGAGE: Online courses offered by our eight European partner universities (Manheim, Toulouse, Tilburg,..) within the EU.ENGAGE network

  • Eligibility Check: Email to course.abroad@wu.ac.at.

• Central European University: Courses offered within the CEU-WU student exchange

  • Eligibility Check: Email to course.abroad@wu.ac.at.

4. Extracurricular Service Learning at WU:

Service learning is a method of teaching and learning that combines service to the community with the acquisition of academic, methodological, and social skills. In service learning projects, students perform work that benefits the community. They learn how to draw connections between relevant theoretical content and what they learn in their practical work. Find the programs here under "2. Freiwilliges Engagement an der WU".