Graduate Study

Our Ph.D. Program faculty are drawn from five Departments or Schools at Cornell. We have faculty from the Department of Economics, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the Johnson School of Management, the Department of Policy Analysis and Management and the Department of Applied Economics and Management. Since 1992 our Ph.D. Program faculty has more than doubled from 29 Economists to 64 this year.

Our breadth of faculty coverage offers students wide opportunities. Students can focus their study interests on any topic area as long as they can find at least two Ph.D. Program faculty members who approve of their topic selection and are willing to supervise the student.

Cornell is also what we call an open campus, students can take courses in areas other than economics and participate in interdisciplinary work.

Ph.D. Program Course Sequences every year

Applied Econometrics
Econometric Theory
Economic development
Industrial organization
International economics
Labor economics
Microeconomic Theory
Monetary and Macro Economics
Public Economics (Public Finance and Political Economy)

Additional Graduate Economics Courses

Behavioral Economics (Psychology and Economics)
Economics of Education
Environmental Economics
Experimental Economics
Finance
Health Economics
Information Theory
Game Theory
Growth Theory
Resource Economics

Subjects for study without Formal Ph.D. Level Courses

Antitrust Economics
Economic Demography
Economic History
Economics of China
Household Economics
Law and Economics
Managerial Economics

Interdisciplinary Study Opportunities

Applied Mathematics
Asian Studies
Cognitive Science
Government
Information Science
Latin American Studies
Marketing
Mathematics
Operations Research
Regional Science
Sociology
Statistics
Various Languages

Links to Interdisciplinary Centers at Cornell

Center for Analytic Economics
Center for Applied Mathematics
Center for the Study of Inequality
Cognitive Studies Program
Comparative Economics Development Program
Cornell Food and Nutrition Program
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research
Department of Statistical Science
East Asia Program
Information Science
Institute for European Studies
Institute for African Development Program
Latin America Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Population and Development Program
South East Asia Program

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