| Teaching Quality and Methods
Teaching Quality
The primary goal of the Graduate program is the constant improvement of the teaching quality standards. To this end, the program applies the following methodology:
- Constant assessment methods for both teachers and students based on anonymous questionnaires distributed to students at the end of each course,
- Comments and discussion across students with their professors and the Director of the program,
- The design of the courses curricula is planned in a manner that avoids any potential overlapping across courses,
- The organization of weekly research seminars where distinguished (local and overseas) speakers are invited,
Lectures by distinguished speakers from non-academic environments.
Teaching Methods
The Department constantly encourages the employment of various and innovative methods of teaching, such as:
- Online notes,
- Informatics means (Power Point),
- The analyses of real-time data obtained from the Department’s lab (databases), or from international organizations, central banks, stock exchanges through the employment of scientific software, such as Eviews, Matlab, R, Stata και Gretl,
- The use of case studies obtained from top universities (Harvard, Stanford, INSEAD),
- In-class discussion,
- Research homework through the investigation of a question associated with the «real world», along with the employment of real data and the hypotheses development; as a results, students get familiar with research methods that help them to develop their research thinking and knowledge,
The presentation of their homework (usually case studies, literature reviews); as a result, students get familiarized with presentation techniques and how to respond to questions coming from tough audiences.