After six years, Nikki Speklé completed the Double Bachelor and Master in Economics and Law (mr.drs) programme at Erasmus School of Economics and Erasmus School of Law. She graduated summa cum laude for both her Economics and Law master’s degree. Erasmus School of Economics congratulates Nikki with this extraordinary achievement and wishes her success in future endeavors!
Nikki completed her Master Economics and Business, with a specialisation in International Economics, summa cum laude at Erasmus School of Economics in October 2018 (GPA 9.5). She obtained a 9.5 for her Master thesis Closing the gates, moving the crime? An analysis of the effect of closing turnstiles gates at metro stations on the spatial distribution of crime in Rotterdam.
In July 2019 Nikki also graduated summa cum laude from Erasmus School of Law with a master’s degree in Legal Theory & Socio-Legal Studies. Her thesis Enfranchising 'all affected interests': The case for a world federation was also awarded with a 9.5, and she graduated with a 9.3 GPA.
In an interview with Dutch newspaper het Algemeen Dagblad, Nikki explains that she ‘has always had the urge to get the most out of it’. ‘In High School I also graduated cum laude,’ she says proudly but also modestly.
How did she do it? ‘It is all about time management and productivity. If you want do everything, you have to plan well. At the beginning of each week, I wrote down my study and personal plans and distributed them over days.’
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Reed the entire article of het Algemeen Dagblad here, 29 July 2019 (in Dutch).