Universities in Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Italy offer quality bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in economics. European universities often offer studies in English, the form of study is part-time. The duration of the programs varies from two years to five.

Programs in economics and econometrics cover a wide range of specialties:
- macroeconomics
- finance
- audit
- taxation
- Information Systems
- strategic management
- risk management and others.

TOP universities and business schools have business incubators to support the launch of student startups. Many courses include paid internships with large companies and government agencies.
Graduates of European universities become highly demanded specialists in the labor market - they find work in the first 3-6 months after receiving their diplomas.

Best Economics & Econometrics universities in Europe 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 2 | University of Oxford |
| 3 | University of Cambridge |
| 4 | Bocconi University |
| 5 | UCL |
| 6 | The University of Warwick |
| 7 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| 8 | London Business School |
| 9 | Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) |
| 10 | Imperial College London |
| 11 | University of Zurich |
| 12 | Ludwig Maximilian Universität München |
| 13 | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 14 | Paris School of Economics |
| 15 | Tilburg University |
| 16 | Stockholm School of Economics |
| 17 | Universität Mannheim |
| 18 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| 19 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
| 20 | HSE University |
| 21 | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole |
| 22 | University of Amsterdam |
| 23 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) |
| 24 | The University of Manchester |
| 25 | HEC Paris School of Management |
| 26 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 27 | Université PSL |
| 28 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris |
| 29 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 30 | KU Leuven |
| 31 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| 32 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna |
| 33 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) |
| 34 | Barcelona Graduate School of Economics |
| 35 | University of Copenhagen |
| 36 | Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| 37 | Copenhagen Business School |
| 38 | University of St.Gallen (HSG) |
| 39 | Sciences Po |
| 40 | University of Nottingham |
| 41 | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 42 | Queen Mary University of London |
| 43 | Stockholm University |
| 44 | Technical University of Munich |
| 45 | Maastricht University |
| 46 | Luiss University |
| 47 | King's College London |
| 48 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 49 | Wageningen University & Research |
| 50 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin |