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>> Our PhD program has several
unique features to it.
Because we're in a sort of span
of a business school
and an economics department,
it's easy to span fields
that may have pieces
in business,
pieces in economics,
and in finance.
That you can have a thesis
that would span all
of those topics
and do it very easily
because the faculty
who would be advising you are
effectively
in the same unit here whereas
at other schools you might have
to span several parts;
you know from a public policy
school to a business school
to an economics department.
And the advantage
of our faculty is we have many
people who have both the
academic and non-academic side
are the connections
to the real world policy making
and other parts
of the real world are
very strong.
When it gets down to the end,
it's of course what did they
eventually work
on for their thesis?
That's what really defines a
PhD program.
We definitely have a real sort
of real world focus to research
that goes on here.
Generally most every
dissertation has an element
of empirical work and kind
of policy relevance
to what they do
so when they get out,
our students end
up in three different locations;
between the academic world,
the policy making world,
and the business
and finance world.
When we talk to our students
in any of these areas,
I think they feel pretty well
prepared for the jobs they've
taken in these places.
They find that background
pretty useful.
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