QPE

The doctoral programme “Quantitative Psychology and Economics” (QPE) is a collaborative project of Faculties of the University of Warsaw: the Faculty of Economic Sciences, the Faculty of Psychology, and the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics. The programme builds upon the success of several English-language masters’ programmes, such as those in data science and quantitative finance. The programme of study was developed and implemented as part of the University’s Integrated Development Programme project, co-funded by the European Social Fund within PO WER, Action 3.5.

The programme enables students to pursue cutting-edge research in a growing and exciting interdisciplinary field. Students with solid background in psychology, economics, neuroscience, computer science, or related fields and possessing strong analytical skills, as well as appetite for behavioural research are encouraged to apply. The programme is mostly intended to prepare for careers in the academia and research units in the corporate world, including the financial sector and digital economy. The graduates will be ready to conduct both basic and applied research using new data and big data, such as those from social media and Customer Relationship Management.

QPE is highly interdisciplinary, located at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, creating opportunities to take courses and work with students and faculty – based at the University of Warsaw and visiting professors – representing different fields. Our PhD students take graduate-level courses in microeconomics, cognitive psychology, statistics and econometrics, machine learning and data science and more. They can also make use of the large number of master-level courses taught at the University. In the process, they are given the theoretical and methodological foundation, as well as modern tools of data analysis, to conduct their own original research, under supervision of leading scholars representing both psychology and economics.

More about the programme, including up-to-date classes schedule, can be found on the Faculty of Economic Sciences website [LINK to website]