The Department of Economics is one of the Division’s largest departments consisting of over 65 faculty and lecturers, 100 graduate students, and 2,000 undergraduates. The Department houses many eminent senior scholars, including 2004 Nobel Laureate Finn Kydland and Professors Stephen DeCanio and Charles Kolstad, who contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.  Department faculty specialize in many subfields including applied, behavioral, environmental, econometrics, financial, industrial organization, international, labor, public, and macroeconomics.  Students may pursue the following degrees:

• Bachelor of Arts–Economics
• Bachelor of Arts–Business Economics
• Bachelor of Arts–Economics/Mathematics
• Emphasis in Accounting
• Master of Arts–Economics
• Masters of Arts–Economics-Business Economics Emphasis
• Five-year combined Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Master of Arts in Economics-Business Economics Emphasis
• Doctor of Philosophy–Economics
• Doctor of Philosophy–Economics and Environmental Science

For more about the Department, please visit the Economics website.