Yale' s Economics Department offers a challenging and rigorous academic program, a distinguished and accessible faculty, and a friendly, supportive environment for study.
Our teaching faculty (not counting visitors or graduate student teaching assistants) numbers 50 making it one of the largest economics departments in the United States. There are 37 tenured professors and 13 non-tenured associate or assistant professors. With about 125 Ph.D. students in residence our teacher/student ratio is very high.
The scope of economics at Yale is evident in the organized research groups within the department and in the affiliation of economists with inter-departmental organizations. The Economic Growth Center embodies Yale' s long-standing commitment to research in economic development throughout the world and on the related problems of international trade and investment. The Cowles Foundation carries on a rich and distinguished tradition in mathematical economics, game theory, theoretical and applied econometrics, and macroeconomic and monetary theory.
