- Academic programs
Master in Mathematics and Economic Decision (1st year)
General information
- Prerequisites for enrolment
- Bac + 4
- Length of studies
- 1 year
- City
- International
- Internships
- Yes
- Cost and financial aid
- For Enrollment and Fees, please see the Admission section. Scholarships: Some Master scholarships will be awarded to Master students according to academic and individual criteria, see Admission section
- Diplôme national

- Accessible as
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- Initial Training
- Alternate training (program where the time is shared between courses and professional experience)
- Teaching languages
- English
- What next?
The two-years Master's program in Mathematics and Economic Decision is the Toulouse School of Economics Master in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. It benefits from the strength of both the TSE’s Mathematics and Economics departments. Interdisciplinarity is very important in recent developments in research, for example at the interface between optimization and statistics. These developments have wide and natural applications in economics and in the industry: artificial intelligence, big data, game theory, high-dimensional analysis, machine learning, network analysis, stochastic analysis, etc.
The first year is dedicated to acquiring a broad and rigorous knowledge in mathematics and statistics and its applications to economics.
The second year of this program is particularly targeted to students interested in research-based training in applied mathematics and statistics. It could be viewed as the first year of a Ph.D. program in the north American system. Successful students who are interested in a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and statistics can apply to grants with the help of the TSE faculty to fund the remaining years of the Ph.D. in Toulouse or outside Toulouse. The Ph.D. can be either academic or professionally oriented. The second year of the Master can also be a good fit for a student interested in research-based learning but who prefers a professional integration directly after the Master, for example as a mathematical engineer with a strong background in Economics.
Alternatively, after the first year, the students may apply to other second year Master’s programs at TSE. The second year of the Master Data Science for Social Science is particularly suited for a professional integration after the Master. Students who become more interested in the Ph.D. in Economics may apply to the second year of the Master Economic Theory and Econometrics.
Goals
For further information, refer to the TSE website.
Publics
Prerequisites for enrolment : Bac + 4
Required former training
First year - Acceptance criteria and enrollment
Students with an undergraduate degree who majored in Economics or Economics and Mathematics at the Toulouse School of Economics, and who are able to justify a good English level, are eligible to enroll in the M1 program "Data Science for Social Sciences", international track entirely taught in English.
- Or by application review:
Students with an undergraduate degree in an economics or mathematics field;
French or foreign students with a degree and credits considered equivalent, and who are able to justify a good English level as well as a good Mathematics Level (GRE required for foreign students).
Alternate training (program where the time is shared between courses and professional experience)
Admission conditions
To apply to this master, select on eCandidatures platform:
- First year: M1 Econometrics, Statistics - Data science for social sciences International track
- Second year: M2 Econometrics, Statistics - Data science for social sciences International track
For more details about requirement documents and application process, please see the Admission section.
Cost and financial aid :
For Enrollment and Fees, please see the Admission section. Scholarships: Some Master scholarships will be awarded to Master students according to academic and individual criteria, see Admission section
- Intermediate econometrics*
- Mathematical Statistics 1*
- Strategic Optimization*
- Advanced Analysis*
- FLE
- Professional Development
Optional:
1 among 4:
1 among 7 (at least one course**:
- Macroeconomics*
- Theory of Incentives
- Probability Modeling
- Environmental Economics
- Economic History
- Evolution of economic behaviour
- Project Management
End of August refesher courses - Math Camp:
- Algebra refresher ***
- Probability refresher ***
- Static Optimization refresher ***
Compulsory courses:
Internship or master thesis
Optional:
1 among 2:
4 among 10:
- Martingales theory and applications++
- Optimization for big data**+
- Industrial Organization **
- Corporate finance**
- Market finance**
- Dynamic optimization
- Introduction to big data**+
- Advanced Macroeconomics
- Advanced Microeconomics
- Time series**
- Economics of Human Development **
- Environmental Economics & Resources Economics **
- * Core courses
** Masters 2 Directors recommend to attend some options:
- Introduction to Big Data or Optimization for Big Data or Data Bases or Time Series: M2 Stateco
- Industrial Organization: M2 EMO
- Environmental & Resource Economics : M2 ERNA
- Economics of human development: M2 PPD
- Corporate Finance et Market Finance: M2 Finance
- Time Series: M2 EEE
*** Mathematics refresher courses, for TSE M1 and M2 students
+ Introduction to big data and Optimization for big data courses are opened to the first 45 registered students (on the come first/first served basis).
- Year of highschool graduation
- Bac + 5
Further studies
For more detailed information, downland the program's brochure here.