Informatics and Econometrics (Master's) at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW is a two-year, English-taught second-cycle programme that leads to a master's degree. It is meant for people who want to analyse and model economic phenomena with mathematical, statistical and computing tools.
The programme combines the mathematical foundations of economics with practical work in statistical and computational tools. In the first year you study dynamic and financial econometrics, econometric modelling, microeconometrics, mathematical economics, multidimensional data analysis and survey sampling, next to object-oriented and advanced programming, software engineering, Oracle databases, network services and the foundations of artificial intelligence. Later come the theory of forecasting and simulations, the basics of financial engineering, event history analysis and statistical analysis in market research. Business ethics, project management and intellectual property management round off the curriculum before the master's seminar and thesis.
Big Data Analytics gives the programme its direction. The subject returns in successive semesters, supported by processing massive datasets, advanced data exploration techniques for big data and deep learning methods.
In the first year you also take a second foreign language and choose between Polish, German, Russian and Spanish. All classes are taught in English, so you work with the terminology of data analysis and economics in English.
Graduates can be employed in:
Based on the programme pages at sggw.edu.pl and the SGGW syllabus.
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