This Web site describes our program and faculty. Let me begin with a brief description of our graduate program. The Ph.D. program provides training for careers in teaching and research by emphasizing theory, quantitative methods, and early involvement in research. The success of the program is reflected in graduates' job placements, which include major universities, such as Chicago, Columbia, UCLA, Michigan State, and excellent undergraduate institutions, such as Carleton and Brandeis. At any given time there are approximately sixty students in residence.
Classes are small and students are able to work closely with faculty.
A graduate economics library and lounge are also housed in Rouss Hall, located in the Jeffersonian portion of the University campus. Virtually all graded courses and the written exams can be completed by the end of the second year, so that students can begin dissertation research at an early stage. Anyone considering graduate school in economics should have some idea of what graduate training in economics involves. Every year some students begin graduate programs with very mistaken expectations. This invariably results in mutual disappointment and wasted time and resources.