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The Phd in Public Economics at Defap Graduate School is a three-year full-timedoctoral program, jointly promoted by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milano) and Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and partly co-financed by Fondazione Cariplo.

The program is taught in English and offers rigorous advanced training and supervision. The Faculty of the School includes teaching staff from the two founding institutions and several other national and international universities. The School has exchange programs in place with other European research institutions and academic departments,and routinely organizes joint research seminars, lectures and workshops.

The PhD program is now in its ninth year of activity, it is widely recognized as one of the best Italian PhD programs in Economics, and it has built a very promising track record in placing its graduates in research departments both in universities and in public and private research departments.

In connection with Defap, the School  also offers a Master program in Economics(Mefap). This is a one-year graduate program taught in English that providesstudents with a thorough understanding of the role and working of the state in modern economies. Successful performance at Mefap improves the chances to be accepted at Defap, for candidates wishing to pursue their studies.