Kylie Snell ’26 spent the summer as a market research intern for the Walt Disney Corporation, learning how the magic is made at one of the most recognizable companies in the world.

Eli Conrod-Wovcha ’26 was excited to study abroad in Senegal in the fall of 2024, but he never expected to become a celebrity there.

After graduation, economics and Chinese major Jivyaa Vaidya ’23 accepted a job with Morningstar Inc., a global financial services company headquartered in Chicago.

Hâle Utar, the Sidney Meyer Professor in International Economics, is exploring how import competition from China and the “biological clock” affect the gender gap in earnings.

Econometrics (ECN 286) is a challenging, higher-level course that will help you understand applied economic research, carry out your own research projects, and to establish relationships within the field

The research project examines the impact of changes in the United States’ international tax system on the employment and earnings of U.S.-based workers. The goal of the project is to better understand how policymakers can design international tax systems to help domestic workers.  

In Economic Development (ECN 230), you will learn to think like an economist by studying global poverty and efforts to alleviate it, says Professor Tammy McGavock.