School of Economics
Home 禄 College of Business and Economics 禄 Schools 禄Welcome to UJ’s School of Economics in the College of Business and Economics at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg.
Our core activity is to train economists in various fields of Economics (Financial Engineering, Industrial Economics and Trade Economics) so that they become the next generation leaders in the field of Economics and valuable assets for any organisation.
Have a look at the latest news and highlights from the SoE:
Congratulations to the UJ on being ranked number 1 in Africa馃帄 鉁�
The 2025 Risk and Uncertainty in Finance and Economics Conference
Invitation to a workshop
The first launch of the World Happiness Report in Africa 2025.
The 2024 and Budget Speech Competition! 馃弳馃
The Center for Local Economic Development (CENLED) under the School of Economics recently had the pleasure of hosting Professor from Integrado 欧美福利100000 in Brazil.
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The First PhD graduate in Economics, specialising in Local Economic Development (LED)
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馃弳 馃 UJ is ranked number 1 on the African continent.
Economics at UJ is ranked number 1 on the African continent, this is according to the World Report Best Global Universities Rankings (BGUR) Subject Rankings 2025-2026 for Economics and Business,
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Methodology:
The Center of Local Economic Development (CENLED) Honors Degree Graduation
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Professor Karl Mittermaier Annual lecture 2025
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The School of Economics (SoE) consists out of six distinct clusters namely:
- Development Economics
- Financial Engineering
- Local Economic Development (includes CENLED 鈥� Center for Local Economic Development)
- Industrial Policy (which includes the聽Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) program)
- The Public and Environment Economics Research Center
- Center for
Both the undergraduate and the Honour’s programmes are designed in such a manner that it prepares students (in terms of content and econometric skills) for the various magister programmes. Master’s programmes offered are:
- Master’s in Financial Engineering
- Master’s in Economics
- Master’s in Local Economic Development
- Master’s in Industrial Policy
- Master’s in Competition and Regulation
- Master’s in Development Economics
A full PhD programme is also offered by the SoE.
The full time staff compliment of SoE is 36 permanent lecturing staff members, 8 administrative staff members and 16 visiting Professors.