The Department of Economics is home to some of the world's leading researchers in microeconomics, macroeconomics, experimental economics, and econometrics.

OSU operates top-research programs that help students to:

• Develop superior analytical skills
• Learn best practices in economic decision making
• Acquire hands-on experience with faculty on research that has real-world impact
• Gain a competitive advantage and apply economic principles in the workforce

The growing and far-reaching impact of economics continually shapes OSU's Department of Economics. As a result, we create:

1. A responsive curriculum addressing fresh perspectives on current issues such as diversity economics, economics of sports, economics of war, economics of crime, economics of the internet and media, population economics and freakonomics. Economics also provides interdisciplinary minors for students interested in economic history, political economy and game theory.
2. An supportive infrastructure that nurtures the future economist's growth including:
• An interactive learning environment with two Economics Computer Labs and an Economics Experiment Lab where economics games are conducted to learn about individual economic behaviors
• The Undergraduate Economics Society, offering a dues-free society that fosters interaction with peers and faculty
• Our Economics Learning Center, providing free peer tutoring to undergraduates

Department of Economics faculty: relevant and recognized

Our faculty is comprised of a group of nationally and internationally recognized instructors, including:

• Fellows of the Econometric Society
• Advisors to the Federal Reserve Bank, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank
• Distinguished Scholars and Teachers Award Winners
• 44 editorial positions in scholarly journals, including the prestigious Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking
• The president of the Economic Science Association

One-on-one with our best and brightest

Not only are economics students being trained by some of the most distinguished experts in the field, they also get one-on-one opportunities to engage with what we believe are the best and brightest minds in Economics today.

• In the past two years, three Nobel Prize winners – George Akerloff, James Heckman, and Josephy Stigliz – presented their papers to our students and faculty.
• Economics alumni such as Keith Monda, the COO of Coach, and Augie Cenname, Vice President of Merrill Lynch, visited and spent time with undergraduates last year to talk about what a career in economics is really all about.
• Our students attend weekly workshops on macroeconomics, applied microeconomics, econometrics, and micro-theory, featuring distinguished scholars from other universities to further broaden their perspective on the field.