PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

As indicated earlier, this is a One-Year M.A. programme running for 12 months. Consequently, there are two semesters of teaching and examinations. In the first semester, students are required to take four (4) courses, designated as core courses, and three (3) courses designated as prescribed elective courses (See Table 1). Thus, the total credits taken for the first semester is 21 credits, as indicated in Table 1.

                       Table 1: Semester I Courses                                                 

In the second semester, students will again take four (4) core courses and three (3) prescribed elective courses, totalling 21 credits, as indicated in Table 2.

 Table 2: Semester II Courses

Thus, over the one-year period, students will take 42 credits of course work in addition to Economic Policy Seminar, 3 credit hours and Research Project/Long Essay 6 credits hours. This would make a total 51 credit hours as summarised in Table 3. 

Table: 3 Summary of Course Requirements 

EXAMINATIONS

Please note that the minimum pass grade for all taught courses at the University of Ghana is a grade C.  

The minimum pass grade for  both EPMP680: Economic Policy Seminar and EPMP660: Research Project/Long Essay is grade B.

A student who obtains a grade D or F in any course is required to re-sit the examination.

To be eligible to graduate from the University of Ghana with the degree M.A. Economic Policy Management, students will require a minimum Final Grade Point Average (FGPA) of 2.5.

STRUCTURE OF SEMESTER

A semester shall normally be of 19 weeks duration and shall be structured as follows:

• 15 weeks of in-person teaching
• 1 week of revision
• 3 weeks of examinations