AGRICULTURAL, FOOD AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ANALYSIS (AFEPA)/ MASTER DEGREE

Background

The European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis aims at providing a high quality education in designing and assessing public policies targeted to the agricultural and food sector as well as the rural environment. The programme is policy oriented, focused on economic analysis, but with a strong multidisciplinary component. By the setting of criteria of admission and by courses in advanced microeconomic theory and quantitative methods the programme provides the basis for applied policy analysis founded on state of the art economic models and econometric tools. Drawing on complementary, specialized teaching and research expertise of professors from several universities the Master programme offers teaching relevant for the analysis of agriculture, food and environmental policy issues within a unified framework exposing students to policy traditions in different European countries. Students are required during their studies for the Master degree to be associated with at least two of the five universities involved in the programme. This gives students from Europe and from the rest of the world the opportunity to establish a rich professional and academic network involving fellow students and teachers associated with the programme. In this and other ways the programme assists students to obtain access to universities in Europe and beyond in the pursuit of further academic qualifications to undertake agricultural, food and environmental policy analysis.

Requirements

To be admitted to the European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis, candidates need to have a Bachelor degree or an equivalent academic degree of minimum three years of undergraduate study corresponding to 180 ECTS. Students in their final year of their Bachelor degree may be admitted in the Master programme on the condition that their Bachelor degree is awarded before they enrol the programme. All candidates also need to have followed courses in mathematics, statistics and economics as well as agricultural, food and environmental sciences at least at an introductory level. This implies that applications from candidates that have not followed courses of both economics and natural sciences at the introductory level will not considered for admission. Candidates must agree to complete the academic curriculum in two consecutive academic years and to the terms in the study contract as specified by the AFEPA consortium. Candidates from English speaking countries must provide an official letter from their university from which they graduated attesting that English is the media of instruction. All other candidates will have to provide evidence that they master English at a level corresponding to the minimum scores on one of the following tests. Please note that we have to receive an applicant's language certificate directly from the testing institutions in the case of the TOEFL test.

Tuition fees

     - 3000 €/per year for EU students
     - 6000 €/per year for Third country students

Deadline: 10 January 2012 for scholarships

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