World-Class Economics
Education and Research in Ukraine
www.kse.org.ua
KSE founders:
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Economics Education & Research Consortium
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The Victor Pinchuk Foundation
KSE sponsors
Eurasia Foundation
Victor Pinchuk Foundation
Open Society Institute
Government of Sweden
Government of Norway
Government of Finland
The Global Development Network
Citi Foundation
Dragon 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 Westerntrained 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.
What KSE offers to students?
•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.
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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:
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Microeconomics
Macroeconomics
Statistics & Econometrics
Mathematics for Economists
English
KSE curriculum
Second year of study:
MA in Financial Economics
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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
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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
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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 successes
Analyst 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.
Alumni successes
• 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.
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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.
Positions that our graduates occupy
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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
Full scholarships for international
students
Full scholarship for Ukr students
Partial Scholarship (€ 1500 per
year)
Students paying full tuition (€
3000 per year)
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First year
Second year
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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