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Urban and Regional Economy Specialization

Bogotá - presencial

1 Year ( 1 año )

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The Urban and Regional Economics Specialization offers comprehensive training in regional planning, land policies, spatial and metropolitan economics.

FREE REGISTRATION FOR POSTGRADUATE COURSES 2022

The curriculum is design to give for the student tools in:

  1. The analysis of urban events such as the growth and planning of cities, mobility, land use, land use planning, the provision of public services, and others.
  2. The regional emphasis enables developing capacities for the design of instruments and the formulation of public policies whose objective will be promote the growth of social well-being at the regional level.

Because the interdisciplinary focus and path, The Urban and Regional Economics Specialization is open to professionals of different disciplines interesting in incorporating skills for spatial analysis into their professional profile.

Why study the Urban and Regional Economy Specialization?

Characterization

  • The Externado ranks third among the best Universities in Colombia and is among the best 600 in the world, according to the  QS University Ranking, in its annual measurements from 2015 to 2021.
  • The faculty of economics is among the best 3 faculties of economics in the country, according to Revista Dinero ranking.
  • Interdisciplinary focus.
  • Specialized teaching staff
  • Pioneering Urban and Regional Economics curriculum.
  • Thanks to its flexible hours, with classes every fifteen (15) days, our students can advance in their academic training while performing their usual work activities.

Privileges

  • Master continuation: Al the end of the specialization, the student can continue the studies in the economics master of the Universidad Externado de Colombia. It is important to highlight that once the specialization is completed, students have up to two years to decide if they want to continue with the master’s degree.
  • Discount policy: Externado University offers a discount policy for university graduates and postgraduates More information here
  • Multiple financing options

Curriculum

Our curriculum has a total of 19 academic credits, distributed in the following sections:

  1. Spatial economics
  2. Urban and regional politics
  3. Elective seminars

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Aspirant profile

The Urban and Regional Economics Specialization program is open to professional of any discipline, genuinely interested in the understanding and analysis of the phenomena immanent to the urbanization of the population and the development of the regions and who, in a complementary way, find in spatial economic thought a theoretical aspect for the multidisciplinary development of their original training. Likewise, the program aims to awaken that interest among all those professionals who, with professionalizing purposes, seek to strengthen their techniques for analyzing spatial phenomena and alternatives to manage urban and regional development.

Graduate profile

When finished satisfactorily the Urban and Regional Economics Specialization program, it is expected that the graduate will have strengthened their knowledge of the alternatives that spatial economics offers them to qualify their claims in terms of communication, research, understanding of contexts and democratic assessment of the strategies of interaction of economic agents in urban and regional spaces.