School of Economics

The School of Economics Ph.D. degree program in Economics is unique in its focus on the common globalization and innovation issues that interconnect environmental economics, industrial organization and international economics. The program emphasizes the economic forces that generate the impetus for individuals to compete globally and analyzes the interrelated effects that these forces have on the environment, international trade, and the behavior of firms in a variety of industrial sectors. There is an increasing demand for Ph.D. economists who have the training and skill sets to think through these interrelated issues more carefully. This doctoral program will prepare students to meet this increasing demand.

The Institute

Georgia Tech, the home of the Yellow Jackets, is the No. 7 public university in the nation according to the 2007 rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Georgia Tech is an innovative intellectual environment with more than 900 full-time instructional faculty and more than 19,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

The university is a national and international leader in scientific and technological research and education. Over the past decade, overall research expenditures increased by 84 percent to $355.3 million in 2006, while federal research expenditures increased 129 percent. Georgia Tech now ranks among the top five in research expenditures among universities without a medical school. In addition, Georgia Tech has an estimated $3.9 billion annual impact within the state of Georgia, according to a 2006 Strategic Economic Development study.

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The School

The School of Economics at Georgia Tech resides in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. We offer Georgia Tech students the unique opportunity for an economics education in the context of a technological environment. For society as a whole, the benefits of technological advances in such diverse areas as information and communications, biotechnology, health, transportation, energy, and the environment, can be understood and appreciated if society knows the social impact that these technologies have upon our economic lives.

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.