Master of Arts
Master of Science in Economics
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Campus address: Bernard and Audre Rapoport Building (BRB) 1.116, phone (512) 471-3211, fax (512) 471-3510; campus mail code: C3100

Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program, Department of Economics, 2225 Speedway Stop C3100, Austin TX 78712

URL: http://liberalarts.utexas.edu/economics/

Areas of Study

The Department of Economics offers graduate study and research in the core areas of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics and in a broad selection of applied areas. Current area offerings are listed in the graduate program's handbooks.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) in the spring 2023 semester.

Jason Ira Abrevaya Daniel A Ackerberg Manuela Angelucci Jorge Francisco Balat Peter S Bergman Venkataraman Bhaskar Saroj Bhattarai Christoph Boehm Svetlana Boyarchenko Marika Cabral Eric Chyn Olivier Coibion Stephen Donald Jackson Dorsey Andres Pablo Drenik Stefano M Eusepi Michael L Geruso Brendan Andrew Kline Leigh L Linden

Victoria Marone Eugenio Javier Miravete Andreas I Mueller Richard Murphy Gerald S Oettinger Nitya Pandalai-nayar Aysegul Sahin David S Sibley Vasiliki Skreta Daniel T Slesnick Dean E Spears Maxwell B Stinchcombe Caroline Desiree Thomas Robert Town Stephen J Trejo Cody Tuttle Thomas E Wiseman Haiqing Xu

Admission Requirements

Applicants may apply directly to the PhD and Master of Arts (Option III) degree programs. The Master of Science in Economics degree is only available to students who are admitted to the PhD program in Economics. Admission to the PhD program requires significant prior training in economics and mathematics. Admission to the Master of Arts (Option III) program requires sufficient prior training in mathematics, while undergraduate coursework in economics is strongly encouraged. Note that applicants admitted to the Master of Arts (Option III) program must submit a nonrefundable enrollment deposit to secure enrollment in the program.