World-Class EconomicsEducation and Research in Ukraine

www.kse.org.ua

KSE founders:

• Economics Education & Research Consortium (EERC)

• The Victor Pinchuk Foundation

KSE sponsors

Eurasia Foundation Victor Pinchuk Foundation

Open Society Institute Government of SwedenGovernment of NorwayGovernment of Finland

The Global Development Network Citi FoundationDragon Capital& Many others

What is KSE?

• KSE is a world-class academic institution with a reputation for excellence in economics education and research, both in Ukraine and internationally

• According to IDEAS/RePEc, KSE has the best faculty in Ukraine (http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.ukraine.html)

KSE faculty

• KSE faculty include experienced Western and Western-trained professors with Ph.D. degrees from abroad (Wisconsin, Michigan State, Maryland, Virginia, Stony Brook, Kentucky, Free University of Brussels, etc.)

• KSE invites top professors to teach at the program or visit the program to give open academic lectures (Berkeley, Columbia, Houston, Indiana, etc.)

What KSE offers to students?

• Two-year world-class MA Program in Financial Economics & MA Program in Economic Analysis taught in English by international faculty

• A Master’s Degree from the University of Houston (U.S.) accredited in the US and recognized around the world

• An academic curriculum modeled on the best economics and financial economics programs in North America and Western Europe

• Training in economic and financial modelling & analysis.

•Outstanding career opportunities in business, finance, consulting, market research, industry, and policy-making, and opportunities for continuing studies at the leading Ph.D. programs around the world

•Unmatched access to economic literature, Western textbooks, statistical databases, econometrics software, and modern computing facilities

•Various financial aid for students in a form of full and partial scholarships, tuition waivers, housing support, etc.

What KSE offers to students?

Why is western-trained faculty important?

• Best Guarantee for ‘Modern’ economics• Best Guarantee for international approach• Best Guarantee for quality education• Best Guarantee for quality research

KSE curriculum

First year of study:

• Microeconomics• Macroeconomics• Statistics & Econometrics• Mathematics for Economists• English

KSE curriculum

Second year of study:

MA in Financial Economics

• Monetary Economics

• Issues in Financial Economics and Strategy

• Theory of Corporate Finance

• Financial Economics I and II

• Emerging Capital Markets

• Issues in Financial Economics

• Money and Banking

• International Finance

• Research & Economic Policy Analysis Workshop

• Thesis Workshop

KSE curriculum

Second year of study:

MA in Economic Analysis

• Public Economics I• New Economic Geography• Issues in Financial Economics and Strategy • Economic Policy Analysis • Labor Economics • International Trade • Issues in Microeconomics: Information Economics• Advanced Macroeconomics • Industrial Organization • Economics of Europe• Game Theory• Demography and Transition• Research & Economic Policy Analysis

• Thesis Workshop

KSE graduates and career opportunities • Total KSE graduates: 462

• 63 % of graduates work in the private sector, primarily in investment, banking, finance, audit, and consulting (Dragon Capital, Bain, BCG, Citibank, Interpipe, Morgan Stanley, etc.)

• 23 % of graduates occupy policy-related positions in local and Western think tanks, research institutes, academia (Princeton, Cornell, Berkeley), and international financial institutions (IMF, World Bank, EBRD, etc.)

• 14 % of graduates continue their education abroad at Ph.D. programs in economics, 73 of which have already obtained international doctoral degrees. 11 of those graduates teach at KSE on full- or part- time basis.

Alumni successesAnalyst ranking in Ukraine, according to the

Thomson Reuters Extel Survey

• 2008: the analytical team of Concorde Capital has been recognized as the best analytical team in Ukraine. The leaders of the team are Vladimir Nesterenko, KSE’2004, and Alexander Parashiy, KSE’2004.

• 2009: the first place in the has been taken by Troika Dialog Ukraine economist Irina Piontkovskaya and Dragon Capital analysts Olena Bilan and Vitaliy Vavryshchuk, all KSE alumni.

• 2010: KSE alumnus’2003 Vitaliy Vavryshchuk (BG Capital) has taken the third place.

• Alina Slyusarchuk, KSE’2008, has been appointed as an Associate in the Research Department of Institutional Sales and Trading Division of Morgan Stanley (London).

• Orest Novoselsky, KSE’2007, Senior Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.

• Alina Havrysh, KSE’1998, works as a Principal Banker, EBRD.

• Iryna Ivaschenko, KSE’1998, has been appointed as IMF Resident Representative in Budapest.

Alumni successes

• Maxym Kryshko, KSE’2001, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, has recently been employed by the IMF (Washington, DC) as an Economist.

• Andriy Norets, KSE’2002, is Assistant Professor at Princeton University.

•  Victor Tsyrennikov, KSE’2002, is Assistant Professor at Cornell University.

• Sergiy Stetsenko, KSE’2003, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, has recently been appointed as a Senior Economist, Moody's, USA.

• Viacheslav Sheremirov, KSE’2008, has been accepted to the Ph.D. Program in Economics of the University of California, Berkeley.

Alumni successes

Positions that our graduates occupy

• Vice President (ING Bank)• Chief Economist (World Bank)• Principal Banker (EBRD)• Senior Associate (Bain & Company)• Head of Research (BG Capital, Dragon Capital)• Assistant Professor (Cornell, Princeton, Berkeley)

KSE students in Stockholm and Norway

KSE Open Lectures

Scholarships offered in the 2010-11 academic year

  First year Second year

Full scholarships for international students 10 4

Full scholarship for Ukr students 10 10

Partial Scholarship  (€ 1500 per year) 20 7

Students paying full tuition (€ 3000 per year) 15 1

Total: 55 21

KSE admissions

• On-line registration: www.kse.org.ua• Application deadline: end of June every year

• KSE General Admission Test (beginning of July) – 70 points: - Economics – 30 points

- Mathematics – 30 points- English – 10 points

• Interview – 30 points

• The economic background is not required

• KSE Library is open for applicants during the working days

• KSE has the preparatory sessions on mathematics after the KSE Open Houses

For more information visit our web site

www.kse.org.ua