About the School
Welcome to the Economics Web site. As you navigate through the School’s Web pages, you will discover information about the School’s history at Georgia Tech, the School’s undergraduate and graduate degree programs, the research and teaching excellence of our faculty, internship and job opportunities for our economics graduates, alumni information, and links to a wealth of economic information and data.
The School of Economics at Georgia Tech resides in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, which offers Georgia Tech students the unique opportunity for an economics education in the context of a technological environment. For society to reap the full economic benefits of technological advances in such diverse areas as information and communications, biotechnology, health, transportation, energy, and the environment, it is important that we understand the impact that these technologies have upon our economic lives.
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The School of Economics’ mission is to provide our students with economic and quantitative skills that will enable them to develop economic insights on phenomena in technologically complex environments, to contribute to the body of economic knowledge, and to inform, educate, and generally interact with the community at large.
The School of Economics is strengthening its faculty expertise in its core research areas: industrial organization, international economics, growth and development, and econometrics. The School currently has fourteen permanent faculty and at least three faculty members have expertise in each of the School’s core areas of expertise.
Our students benefit from and the school’s faculty contributes to the strong interdisciplinary culture that exists at Georgia Tech. The Institute’s emphasis upon technology affords the School of Economics significant opportunities for innovative teaching and research collaborations. In a world where problems are increasingly multifaceted with no easy solutions, collaborative approaches to understanding some of society’s most complex problems allow students to more completely understand the economic implications of alternative policies.
The School of Economics offers undergraduate students a number of degree options. In addition to an Economics major, the School offers undergraduate students an Economics minor and a Certificate in Economics. For students interested in developing core knowledge and marketable skills in two separate disciplines, the School offers two joint degree programs: a joint Global Economics and Modern Language degree; and an Economics and International Affairs joint degree.
The School of Economics offers a Professional Master of Science degree with a concentration in economics. Consistent with the Institute’s technological emphasis, the Professional Master’s program focuses upon technology, regulation, market structures, and international economics. Further, the program equips students with value-added quantitative and data handling skills desired in the private and public sectors.
The coming year presents numerous opportunities for the School of Economics as we expand our existing programs, identify new collaborative opportunities, and further strengthen our faculty resources. I hope that you will be able to share these exciting times with us.
Dr. Patrick McCarthy
Chair, School of Economics