G-ECON-PHD - Economics - PhD

Duke University offers a world-class doctoral program in economics, featuring a vibrant faculty of exceptional scholars and teachers along with superior research facilities. The faculty is dedicated to anchoring all teaching and research firmly in the core disciplines of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics. The first year of the program lays the critical foundation necessary for later work in field courses and dissertation-level research.

Advanced study is offered in economic theory, macroeconomics, applied microeconomics (including industrial organization, labor economics, public economics, and development economics), econometrics, history of political economics, and certain fields outside the Economics Department such as finance. The standard time to completion of the PhD is five to six years.

Students preparing to enter these programs will find an undergraduate background in mathematics, engineering, computer science, statistics, or economics to be very helpful.

For additional information, visit the Economics PhD Program page.