The fall semester at the African School of Economics opened on Monday, September 5, with 61 new first-year students on campus and a total enrollment, including doctoral candidates, of 100. Students at ASE represent over 15 African nationalities, with the largest number of new students coming from Benin, followed by Cameroon, Ghana and Burkina Faso. The Class of 2018 will eventually be joined by a second intake of students that will arrive in Benin in January 2017.

Among the many events on the calendar for the 2016-17 academic year at ASE are the Summer Institute for Economic Research (SIER) that will take place in December and the Academic and Professional Seminar Series, that take place at ASE on a bi-weekly basis. The seminar series provides students the opportunity to engage with high-quality scholarly research; by welcoming a wide-range of scholarly talent to ASE’s campus on a regular basis, this series is sure to spark the academic interests of students.

2016 is a crucial year for ASE as three new programs have been added to the Master in Mathematics Economics and Statistics and Master in Business Administration that will soon celebrate their first cohort of graduates. Starting this September the school is also offering master degrees in Public Administration, Development Economics, and a Doctoral Program in Economics.

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