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MIT Economics: Ongoing Excellence in Education and Research. Consistently Ranked First in Studies of Economics Graduate Programs About 35 Undergraduate Majors/Year, 50 Minors, 115 Concentrators Technically Demanding Undergraduate Program Graduate Class of 22 Each Year (only for Ph.D.).
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MIT Economics: Ongoing Excellence in Education and Research Consistently Ranked First in Studies of Economics Graduate Programs About 35 Undergraduate Majors/Year, 50 Minors, 115 Concentrators Technically Demanding Undergraduate Program Graduate Class of 22 Each Year (only for Ph.D.)
Historical Perspective First U.S. College to Require Economics (1881) Central Role in Making Economics a Mathematically Rigorous Field Historically Distinguished Faculty: Modigliani, Samuelson, Solow Nobel Laureates Five John Bates Clark Medal Winners Five Ph.D. Graduates Have Won Nobel Prizes (Klein, Merton, Mundell, Akerlof, Stiglitz)
Commitment to Applied Economics Four Central Banks are Led by MIT Graduates (Bernanke, Fischer, Corbo, Draghi) Recent Chairs of U.S. Council of Economic Advisers: Mankiw, Bernanke, Bailey, Tyson, Stiglitz Outstanding Research Record in Many Fields, Including Development Economics, Industrial Organization, Public Finance Close Links to Sloan, Political Science