Utrecht University School of Economics

Geschiedenis

Utrecht University School of Economics is the Economics department of Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. The strategy of USE focuses on further internationalization of students and lecturers, further development of talent and career-planning policies, boosting the research programmes by organizing them into focus areas and honing the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in order to improve access to the labour market.Utrecht School Economics is a recognised centre of expertise for multidisciplinary economics, dedicated to education and research. It strongly focuses on institutional, historical and spatial dimensions of economic issues as well as the integration and collaboration between general economics and business economics.Except for the two international honours colleges of the university, USE is together with the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences the only UU department that offers an English-taught undergraduate degree programme. Its chairs are responsible for teaching and conducting research.The department is divided into three different institutes: the Undergraduate School of Economics, which offers bachelor’s programmes the Graduate School of Economics, which offers Masters in Economics the Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute, which conducts academic research and supervises research master's programmes .