GMU Economics PhD Program

<p>Does anyone know anything about the admissions process for the economics PhD program at George Mason? How strong is GMU's PhD program?</p>

<p>GMU has a pretty strong PHD program for Economics. From US NEWS it is ranked #62, Shanghai World Rankings places it as 46. Donald Bodreaux and a few professors conducted a lot of studies: </p>

<p>3rd in Methodology and History of Economic Thought

  • 9th in General Economics and Teaching
  • 11th in Law and Economics
  • 25th in Microeconomics
  • 25th in Public Economics
  • 39th in Financial Economics [This surprises me, pleasantly.]
  • 40th in Mathematical and Quantitative Methods [Another pleasant surprise.]
  • 43rd in Economic Systems
  • 47th in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics
  • 52nd in Economic History [pre-Nye!]
  • 55th in Labor and Demographic Economics
  • 57th in Industrial Organization
  • 66th in Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth [a disappointing ranking]
  • 79th in Macroeconomics and monetary policy [no surprise here, but still disappointing]
  • 79th in Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
  • 92nd in Health, Education, and Welfare
  • 99th in International Economics</p>

<p>So it’s a program that is getting stronger every year but it definitely isn’t the best. Definitely a very respectable program though. Great school for economics. Very strong. The admissions process you would have to go on the Economics page on the GMU catalog. </p>