Civiløkonom, literally "civil economist", is a professional title in

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(with corresponding titles in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

and Sweden, see below under "See also") used for an individual who holds a certain degree in business administration and economics after three years of studies: ''Erhvervsvidenskabelig Afgangseksamen'' (in Danish) ''candidatus mercaturae'' (in

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

). The ''candidatus mercaturae'' (cand.merc. for short) is a 2-year MSc programme on top of the BSc ''Handelsvidenskabelig Afgangseksamen'' (HA for short), so a person holding a cand.merc title has studied at a university for at least 5 years (3 years as an undergraduate/college student, and 2 years in graduate school). Both the undergraduate and the graduate programs are offered as combination programs including other scientific fields, such as computer science, psychology, math, philosophy etc.