hi, i am really confused for explaining the three university because honestly i just choose the university that offer the course of Development Finance (there are not many). i wonder whether explaining the ranking would be unneccessary
Outline why you have selected your chosen three university courses, and explain how this relates to your previous academic or professional experience and your plans for the future.
*Please do not duplicate the information you have entered on the work experience and education section of this form (minimum word count: 100 words, maximum word count: 500 words)
Prior to my application, I have done two jobs as a research fellow in both the Central Bank of Indonesia and at the Financial Service Authority in Indonesia. As a researcher, I discovered that a bachelor degree is not enough to secure a position to decide on the framework thinking and concept design for either the research objective or public policymaking. It stops with handling data. Even though I greatly appreciate the opportunity given, I believe that continuing study, especially in a more focused field, will greatly benefit me and the future researches I will write.
My research interest came from my own observations and several previous researches where I found that the poor, or generally any human being, might act irrationally for matters that concern on money. During periods of emergency, people might agree to unfair agreement because the need for money were too tight. I got the chance to observe this during my social act project to one fishing village in West Java. The fishermen are poor but sure they need money, so they take the closest solutions at hand: loan sharks. I believe that the lack of proper financial literacy and inclusion were hindering Indonesia's development. For those reasons, I chose Development Finance for my major in graduate study.
The course of Development Finance revolves on many important issues of development, such as poverty, inequality and the public sector. Based on my own experiences working in the field of policymaker, the study on development finance is a very large field with only few parts sufficiently explored and the remaining huge parts are waiting for breakthrough innovations. Indonesia is a unique country with certain characteristics that needs specially-designed policies, a real challenge, so I strive for the best place to study on maximizing the financial sector for development. There are not many universities offering Development Finance as a major. Development Finance itself focuses on the role of financial sector for accelerating growth. With careful research, I found the best three universities to study on the course: University of Manchester, University of Reading and SOAS University of London. I have re-read their syllabus plenty of times and I finally conclude that the learning program is exactly as I wish to study. University of Manchester put more optional courses concerning on development economics while University of Reading and SOAS University of London give more optional courses for exploring the financial market, but either one offers a wide range of development economics courses. Ranking-wise, all three are highly ranked in QS World University Ranking 2017 by the subject of Development Studies with University of Manchester at 7th place, SOAS at the 11th place, and University of Reading at the 42th place. I have received my unconditional offer from University of Manchester and accepted it.
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Outline why you have selected your chosen three university courses, and explain how this relates to your previous academic or professional experience and your plans for the future.
*Please do not duplicate the information you have entered on the work experience and education section of this form (minimum word count: 100 words, maximum word count: 500 words)
Prior to my application, I have done two jobs as a research fellow in both the Central Bank of Indonesia and at the Financial Service Authority in Indonesia. As a researcher, I discovered that a bachelor degree is not enough to secure a position to decide on the framework thinking and concept design for either the research objective or public policymaking. It stops with handling data. Even though I greatly appreciate the opportunity given, I believe that continuing study, especially in a more focused field, will greatly benefit me and the future researches I will write.
My research interest came from my own observations and several previous researches where I found that the poor, or generally any human being, might act irrationally for matters that concern on money. During periods of emergency, people might agree to unfair agreement because the need for money were too tight. I got the chance to observe this during my social act project to one fishing village in West Java. The fishermen are poor but sure they need money, so they take the closest solutions at hand: loan sharks. I believe that the lack of proper financial literacy and inclusion were hindering Indonesia's development. For those reasons, I chose Development Finance for my major in graduate study.
The course of Development Finance revolves on many important issues of development, such as poverty, inequality and the public sector. Based on my own experiences working in the field of policymaker, the study on development finance is a very large field with only few parts sufficiently explored and the remaining huge parts are waiting for breakthrough innovations. Indonesia is a unique country with certain characteristics that needs specially-designed policies, a real challenge, so I strive for the best place to study on maximizing the financial sector for development. There are not many universities offering Development Finance as a major. Development Finance itself focuses on the role of financial sector for accelerating growth. With careful research, I found the best three universities to study on the course: University of Manchester, University of Reading and SOAS University of London. I have re-read their syllabus plenty of times and I finally conclude that the learning program is exactly as I wish to study. University of Manchester put more optional courses concerning on development economics while University of Reading and SOAS University of London give more optional courses for exploring the financial market, but either one offers a wide range of development economics courses. Ranking-wise, all three are highly ranked in QS World University Ranking 2017 by the subject of Development Studies with University of Manchester at 7th place, SOAS at the 11th place, and University of Reading at the 42th place. I have received my unconditional offer from University of Manchester and accepted it.