A foreign language is not required. The doctoral program is designed to be completed in four years, although most students take slightly longer. The principal form of financial aid available to graduate students in economics is a teaching assistantship. A number of such assistantships are available to entering graduate students with promising academic records. The Institute for Economic Research houses a computer laboratory that provides hardware and software for economic modeling, economic estimation, word processing, and other faculty and graduate student research functions.
Access is restricted to economics graduate students and faculty.
For more information, see the Economics homepage. See also the Course Catalog for course descriptions.