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Welcome to the website of the Department of Economics at the University of New Mexico. The Department is home to 15 faculty members, over 250 undergraduate majors and 60 graduate students, and offers BA, MA and PhD degrees. Student groups include the Economics Graduate Student Organization (EGSO), and an undergraduate Economics Society.
The Department faculty is proud of our programs in teaching, research, service and community engagement. Faculty members include a number of teaching and research award winners, including two recent UNM Outstanding Teacher of the Year award recipients. A number of faculty serve in leadership roles in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNM. Department faculty members share a collective interest in applied public policy issues, including education, health, the environment and poverty.
The Department houses two centers: the Science Impact Laboratory for Policy and Economics (SILPE); and the Nepal Study Center (NSC). Department faculty and students also have connections with a number of other interdisciplinary programs and centers at UNM. These include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Center for Health Policy, the Latin America and Iberian Institute (LAII), the Water Resources Program (WRP), the International Studies Institute (ISI), and the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addiction (CASAA).
The Department has offered graduate studies since the 1940s, and the PhD since the 1960s. Graduate fields include: Environmental and Resources; International and Development; Public Finance; and Labor and Human Resources. The Department was recently ranked as 17th in the U.S., and 19th in World in the field of Environmental and Resource Economics, in terms of published research. Department faculty maintain active grant-funded research, ranking 62nd among U.S. Economics programs in one recent NSF ranking of R&D expenditures. Graduate student support and funding opportunities include teaching and research assistantships, participation in various fellowship programs including the RWJF Center for Health Policy Doctoral and Dissertation Fellowships. The Department also annually selects student recipients for the Gerald Boyle and Raymond F. Stuart Awards.
Please use these webpages to learn more about our undergraduate and graduate program offerings, as well as the research and service activities in the Department.
Sincerely,
Robert P. Berrens
Professor and Chair
Department of Economics
University of New Mexico
