High employability of MEDEG students at national and international level is consistent with the objectives of the European Higher Education Area. Students educated and trained at MEDEG will find plenty of career opportunities both at national and international institutions working on economic development, such as the European Union, OECD, ILO, World Bank, UNESCO, WTO, CEPAL, IADB (Inter-American Development Bank), NGOs, governments and central banks, think-thanks, multinational companies, consulting firms. For students willing to develop an academic career, the MEDEG offers the advanced skills required to carry out research at scholarly level in the fields of development economics, economic history, applied economics and international economics. The participating institutions offer to talented students oriented towards an academic career the possibility to continue their postgraduate education in one of their Doctoral Programmes.