National Rankings

Georgia State University ranked 27th among 269 graduate programs in public affairs surveyed recently by U.S. News & World Report.  In the 2009 edition, Georgia State comes in fifth in Public Finance and Budgeting; 12th in City Management & Urban Policy; 13th in Nonprofit Management; 18th in Public Policy Analysis; 12th in Information & Technology Management; and 33rd in Public Management Administration.

An article in the most recent issue of the Southern Economic Journal* ranks economics departments in subfields based on scholarly productivity (publications) of each department's 2004 faculty members over the previous 20 years (1985-2004). The Dept of Economics was ranked among the top 25 departments in the fields of Public economics (11th), Methodology and history of economic thought (16th), General economics and teaching (14th), Labor and demographic economics (23rd), Environmental economics (20th) and Urban and regional economics (8th).