Graduate Program

Application Deadlines for Admission

Spring semester: August 1 (only under extreme circumstances)
Fall semester: International Students: March 1
  Domestic with aid: March 1
  Domestic without aid: July 1


Application Deadlines for Financial Aid

As financial aid decisions are made earlier than the application deadlines, timely receipt of application materials is advisable for those interested in financial aid.


Degrees Offered

  • Master of Arts in Economics (M.A.)

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (Ph.D.) 

The Department of Economics offers the M.A. degree in Economics, with concentrations in Environmental/Natural Resource Economics; Public Finance; Labor/Human Resources Economics; International Development and Sustainability; Econometrics; Economic Theory. Only those students transferring from the Ph.D. to M.A. program may concentrate in Economic Theory. The master’s degree is awarded under Plan I (thesis) or Plan II (exam). Plan II requires 30 credit hours of approved course work, and may not include courses taken on a Credit/No-Credit basis.

The Department of Economics offers the Ph.D. degree in Economics, with concentrations in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; Public Economics; International Development and Sustainability. The Ph.D. degree is awarded to students who have met the general requirements specified elsewhere in this Catalog and have demonstrated competency in economic theory (micro and macro), econometrics, and their concentration (9 credit hours). See the Economics Graduate Student Handbook for specific requirements.

Applicants to the Department of Economics M.A. and Ph.D. Programs:

Recommended undergraduate course work consists of 12 credit hours of upper-division economic courses, including one semester of intermediate micro theory and macro theory. Students are required to have completed one semester of calculus (preferably the equivalent of at least UNM’s MATH 162 or MATH 180). In addition, the department offers a summer online math/statistics refresher and a one-week math/statistics boot camp the week prior to the start of Fall semester. All graduate students are required to attend the online refresher and boot camp.

All applicants must submit their current (within the last three years) GRE-General Test Scores (verbal, quantitative, and analytical). International students, for whom English is not their first language or if English is not the official language spoken in their country, must submit results of either the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), the University of Cambridge Examinations Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE), or Certificate of Advanced English (CAE).


Ph.D. in Economics

Departmental Requirements

A minimum of 48 credit hours of course work at the graduate level (with no more than six credit hours of approved 300- and 400-level courses) is required. Courses taken under a Credit/No-credit grading option do not count toward the required 48 credit hours of course work. Also, a minimum of 18 credit hours of dissertation credit (ECON 699) is required. A student may not count dissertation credit hours toward the 18 required credit hours until after successful completion of the core examination. In addition to the core curriculum requirements, all doctoral students must successfully complete a concentration consisting of at least nine credit hours of approved economics courses and a secondary concentration consisting of at least six credit hours of approved economics courses. All doctoral students must pass the core theory examination, a written examination in econometrics, and a research requirement paper.

Core Requirements

All Ph.D. students are required to complete a theory sequence and three core courses in statistics and econometrics, which gives the student an additional concentration (see below). The basic sequencing of the core curriculum consists of the following courses:

Year 1 Fall
ECON 501 Microeconomics I
ECON 504 Mathematical Tools and Economic Models
ECON 506 Macroeconomics I
ECON 508 Statistics and Introduction to Econometrics
ECON 595 Workshop in Applied Economics (week prior to Fall semester)
Spring
ECON 509 Econometrics I
ECON 513 Microeconomics II
ECON 514 Macroeconomics II
Year 2 Fall
ECON 510 Econometrics II


As part of his or her core curriculum all Ph.D students are also required to take at least one 500-level economics course that is not within the micro or macro curriculum, the econometrics curriculum, and is outside his or her concentration or secondary concentration. This course should be taken as a candidate's schedule permits.

Concentrations

The department offers three Ph.D. concentrations:

  • Environmental/Natural Resource Economics
  • International Development and Sustainability
  • Public Economics

A student is required to have a concentration in which he/she has successfully completed nine credit hours of study and a secondary concentration in which he/she has successfully completed six credit hours of study. As discussed above, the core requirements in econometrics grant the student an additional secondary concentration in econometrics. The courses available in each concentration are:

ECON 533, 542, 564, 565, and 582 may be repeated for credit toward the degree. 

Environmental/Natural Resource Economics

  • ECON 540 Natural Resource, Environmental and Ecological Modeling I
  • ECON 542 Topics in Environmental, Resource and Ecological Economics
  • ECON 543 Natural Resource, Environmental, and Ecological Modeling II
  • ECON 544 Environmental Economics

International Development and Sustainability

  • ECON 581 International Development and Finance
  • ECON 582 Topics in International and Sustainable Development
  • ECON 583 Development Economics
  • ECON 585 Sustainable Development

Only three credit hours of ECON 582 may be counted toward the International Development and Sustainability concentration.

Public Economics

  • ECON 560 Public Economics
    Choose 2 from:
  • ECON 533 Seminars in Industrial Organization
  • ECON 564 Topics in Health Economics
  • ECON 565 Topics in Public and Labor Economics

ECON 560 is required for a first and secondary concentration in Public Economics.


Courses

ECON 105. Introductory Macroeconomics. (3)



ECON 106. Introductory Microeconomics. (3)



ECON 203. Society and the Environment. (3)



ECON 212. Personal Investing. (3)



ECON 239. Economics of Race and Gender. (3)



ECON 295. Topics in Economics and Social Issues. (1-3, may be repeated two times)



ECON **300. Intermediate Microeconomics I. (3)



ECON **303. Intermediate Macroeconomics I. (3)



ECON 307. Economics Tools. (3)



ECON **309. Introductory Statistics and Econometrics. (3)



ECON **315. Money and Banking. (3)



ECON *320. Labor Economics. (3)



ECON *321. Development Economics. (3)



ECON *330. Consumer Economics. (3)



ECON *331. Economics of Poverty and Discrimination. (3)



ECON *332. Economics of Regulation. (3)



ECON *333. Industrial Organization. (3)



ECON *335. Health Economics. (3)



ECON *341. Urban and Regional Economics. (3)



ECON 342. Environmental Economics. (3)



ECON *343. Natural Resource Economics. (3)



ECON *350. Public Finance. (3)



ECON *360. History of Economic Thought. (3)



ECON 395. Seminar in Current Economic Issues. (1-3, no limit Δ)



ECON *403. Intermediate Macroeconomics II. (3)



ECON *407. Mathematical Methods in Economics. (3)



ECON *408. Economic Forecasting Methods: A Time Series Approach. (3)



ECON *409. Intermediate Econometrics. (3)



ECON *410. Topics in Health Economics. (3, no limit Δ)



ECON *421. Latin American Economics. (3)



ECON *423. Topics in Latin American Development. (3)



ECON *424. International Trade. (3)



ECON *427. Topics in Labor Economics. (3)



ECON *429. International Finance. (3)



ECON *442. Topics in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. (3)



ECON *445. Topics in Public Finance. (3)



ECON 451. Independent Study. (1-3 to a maximum of 6 Δ)



ECON *466. Public Sector Project Analysis. (3)



ECON *478. Seminar in International Studies. (3)



ECON 498. Reading for Honors. (3 to a maximum of 6 Δ)



ECON 499. Senior Honors Thesis. (4)



ECON 501. Microeconomics I. (3)



ECON 504. Mathematical Tools and Economic Models. (3)



ECON 506. Macroeconomics I. (3)



ECON 508. Statistics and Introduction to Econometrics. (3)



ECON 509. Econometrics I. (3)



ECON 510. Econometrics II. (3)



ECON 513. Microeconomics II. (3)



ECON 514. Macroeconomics II. (3)



ECON 533. Seminars in Industrial Organization. (3)



ECON 534. Experimental Economics. (3)



ECON 538. Topics in Applied Economics. (3)



ECON 540. Natural Resource, Environmental, and Ecological Modeling I. (3)



ECON 542. Topics in Environmental, Resource, and Ecological Economics. (3 to a maximum of 15 Δ)



ECON 543. Natural Resource, Environmental, and Ecological Modeling II. (3)



ECON 544. Environmental Economics. (3)



ECON 545. Water Resources II - Models. (4)



ECON 546. Water Resources I - Contemporary Issues. (4)



ECON 551. Independent Study. (1-3 to a maximum of 6 Δ)



ECON 560. Public Economics. (3)



ECON 564. Topics in Health Economics. (3 to a maximum of 6 Δ)



ECON 565. Topics in Public and Labor Economics. (3 to a maximum of 6 Δ)



ECON 581. International Development and Finance. (3)



ECON 582. Topics in International and Sustainable Development. (3)



ECON 583. Development Economics. (3)



ECON 584. Interdisciplinary Seminar on Problems of Modernization in Latin America. (3, no limit Δ)



ECON 585. Sustainable Development. (3)



ECON 595. Workshop in Applied Economics. (1-3)



ECON 599. Master's Thesis. (1-6, no limit Δ)



ECON 699. Dissertation. (3-12, no limit Δ)



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