Phd programs
On-Campus
48 Months
PhD in Eonomics and Finance
Full Time
Positions come with a full grant, the gross amounts is €20.037,45 per year.
Valentina Vaiuso
The Ph.D. program in Economics and Finance is a 4-year full-time program providing an advanced specialization in Economics, Finance, and Econometrics to highly qualified students whose goal is a successful career in academia or in institutions that require strong financial, economic, and statistical skills.
The program offers a distinguished international faculty teaching a wide variety of graduate and doctoral courses in Economics and Finance. During the first year, students acquire a broad set of theoretical and methodological skills required in economics and finance. After choosing their field of specialization, students dedicate the second, third, and fourth years to research.
Our program is formally linked to the Rome Economics Doctoral program (https://www.redphd.it/), a Ph.D. program in Economics in collaboration with EIEF-Bank of Italy and the Dept. of Economics and Finance at LUISS. In addition to our faculty and classes, our students are encouraged to take RED courses for credit and interact with the best researchers in the broader Rome area.
The department of Economics and Finance is a lively intellectual and social environment with two weekly seminar series, period workshops and specific activities for doctoral students (brown bags, student workshops, job market training, weekly review sessions with the program coordinator and periodic social gatherings)
Analytical skills and intense preparation in mathematics are essential for a successful application.
Call for Interest A.Y 2025-2026 - Required documents:
We are now advertising the positions for the next academic year with a full grant, which amounts to €16,243 per year (about €1,200 per month net of taxes, increased by 50% during the periods – up to one year - spent abroad for study and research).
A prerequisite for participating in the program is a M.Sc. university degree in Economics or equivalent. All admissions are conditional on obtaining the MSc degree before the beginning of the program.
The selection is based on the evaluation of the candidate’s profile from the documentation provided, and a personal interview.
Interested candidates are invited to send to admin@phdef.uniroma2.it all the required documents listed below:
- Research Statement (3 pages max)
- Two reference letters (instruct your letter-writers to send letters here admin@phdef.uniroma2.it)
- Short motivational Letter with Curriculum Vitae (resume)
- English language proficiency certificate (IELTS/TOEFL/Cambridge C2 Proficiency/Cambridge C1 Advanced). No English language certificate is required from applicants who are English native speakers and/or have been awarded a degree from a university program entirely taught in English and have written a thesis in English in such a program.
- M.Sc. thesis (elective)
- Short motivational Letter (elective)
- GDPR acknowledge (rif. GDPR relevant rules - English version)
Deadline: March 30, 2025
Promising applicants will be invited to an interview.
Due to the limited number of available positions, we strongly encourage early applications. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a formal application for the admission procedure in accordance with the official Call by Tor Vergata University of Rome, to be issued in Spring 2025.
Call for Application A.Y. 2025-2026
The Call for Application will be available in April 2025 here,
along with specific details about the requirements and criteria for admission to the Ph.D. program in Economics and Finance.
How to APPLY - Requirements
The requirement is the second level (M.Sc.) degree, to be achieved by the date of the Ph.D. enrolment. Applicants with a non-EU M.Sc. degree will provide the Declaration of Value (or its request to the competent authority) within six months from the enrollment.
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