{"id":14718,"date":"2025-07-09T11:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/?page_id=14718"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:22:12","slug":"postgraduate-diploma-in-economics-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/postgraduate-diploma-in-economics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgraduate Diploma in Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"14718\" class=\"elementor elementor-14718\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df6c722 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"df6c722\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76462e6 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"76462e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.22.0 - 26-06-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Economics aims at equipping students with knowledge and tools of economic analysis and the ability to use those tools in explaining economic problems and issues. The programme is especially designed for graduates with no background in Economics. Successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma in Economics can be a stepping stone (if so desired) to more technical Masters\u2019 degree programmes in Economics. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p>Courses offered:\u00a0<\/p><table width=\"612\"><tbody><tr><td width=\"96\"><p><strong>Course Code<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p><strong>Course Title<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p><strong>Credits<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p><strong>Status <\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ECN 501<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Microeconomics<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ECN 502<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Macroeconomics<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ECN 504<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Applied Social Statistics<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ECN 506<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>International Economics<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>2<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ECN 523<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Economic Development<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>2<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ECN 553<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Regional Development &amp; Planning<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>2<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ECN 559<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Entrepreneurship<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ECN 560<\/p><\/td><td width=\"372\"><p>Project Planning &amp; Appraisal<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>2<\/p><\/td><td width=\"72\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p>Apart from the above courses, students are required to follow courses equivalent to 6 credits from other disciplines to complete the programme.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a0150b7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a0150b7\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8d40bb4 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8d40bb4\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3787da3 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3787da3\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Economics aims at equipping students with knowledge and tools of economic analysis and the ability&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14718","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14732,"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14718\/revisions\/14732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}