About Us
The Department of Economics is housed within the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. The department features innovative research resources, including the Experimental Economics Laboratory, and maintains a strong multi-disciplinary approach to policy analysis. The department has 31 full-time faculty members, and will grow over the next five years to over 40 faculty, making it one of the largest economics departments in the country. A full range of degrees - Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. degrees - is offered.
Highlights
- The Department recently hired three new faculty members - H. Spencer Banzhaf, Vjollca Sadiraj, and Jon Rork - and is planning on hiring at least five more faculty members over the next several years to create one of the largest economics departments in the country. Currently, there are 34 faculty members in the Department.
- The Department admitted 13 new doctoral students in Fall 2006, and there were 30 new Master of Arts in Economics and Policy Track students during the year. There are now over 100 students in the graduate programs.
- The number of undergraduate economics majors continues to grow, and is now nearly 300, up from only 100 several years ago.
- In addition to its undergraduate and graduate degree programs, the Department is now offering a novel joint major with the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the undergraduate level, an interdisciplinary program that combines a foreign languages major with an international economics focus (International Economics and Foreign Languages).
- The Department also offers three unique programs: the Peace Corps Master's International Program, the South Africa Study Abroad Program, and the Summer Policy Internship Program.
