The Economics Graduate Program at North Carolina State University is a joint program of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the Department of Economics , emphasizing the application of economic theory and econometrics to economic problems. The program has a long history of training students for careers in academia, government, and the private sector. The graduate program is large with about 130 students and over 50 graduate faculty members . This allows the program to offer a variety of fields of specialization. All students are required to take a common core of economic theory and econometrics.
Students then take field courses based on their interests.
The program has particular strengths in the fields of agricultural economics, econometrics, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macro-monetary economics, and natural resource and environmental economics. Students may choose to minor in a field outside economics. Because of the strength of the Statistics Department at NC State, many students take additional courses in statistics leading to a minor, or in some cases a co-major, in statistics. Three members of the economics graduate faculty also have appointments with statistics.