分两种。一种是一年制项目。比如加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)的Master of Applied Economics项目。加州大学一般实行quarter制,一年有三个quarter,每个quarter三个月。在秋季学期上四门基础必修课,包括Microeconomic Theory, Macroeconomic Theory, Applied Statistics,Econometrics and Time Series with R and Python,以及Intro to Econometrics, Cross-Sectional and Panel Data, and Time Series。冬季学期上一些应用类的课程,包括Incentives, Information and Markets,Income Inequality, Machine Learning, Data Science for Financial Engineering, Core Finance之类的。春季再上一些选修课。最后有一个资格考试。详细消息可参考官网。https://master.econ.ucla.edu/program/.