Overview

Stony Brook's Ph.D. program in Economics is a small, highly selective and tightly focused program. Graduate training begins with an inter-linked sequence of courses in the student's first three semesters; after that point, the students choose major and minor areas of specialization, with courses offered in the second year of study, and then proceed to the thesis. The core courses are capped by comprehensive examinations, and students also take an examination in his or her major specialization. In choosing among specialized areas of concentration, students at Stony Brook may select from among game theory, macroeconomics, industrial organization, labor economics, economic demography, health economics, and applied econometrics. These areas represent the important specializations in which Stony Brook faculty possess excellent national and international reputations, and in which the department as a whole is committed to emphasizing in the future.

At present, the Ph.D. program involves 15 faculty who teach or advise in the program, and approximately 45 first to sixth-year Ph.D. students. In a recent ranking of economics department by placement outcomes we were ranked 44th in the world.