The department also publishes a journal recently retitled as the Review of Financial Economics. Our program, like most Ph.D. programs is designed for the full time student. There is no regulation that the program can not be completed part time. However, we have had people try to do this and their rate of success is near zero. There are no night courses in the Ph.D. program.
All classes are one or two days a week, usually in the morning, but sometimes in the afternoon.
After that we allot 3 semesters for you to complete your dissertation. That makes 4 years. We do not require you to complete the dissertation in three semesters, and many students take extra time. Our program is designed to produce graduates primed for work in joint economics and finance departments, like our own. Most of our students want jobs in academia, and get them when they graduate.