The Office of Student Services has released Enrollment Highlights for the fall, 2013 semester which show that there are 1,018 undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences economics major and the Carroll School of Management economics concentration. This is the largest major and concentration, and the largest ever recorded, representing over 11% of all BC undergraduates, and a 25-year high for the Economics Department's enrollment. This total does not include those students in the A&S economics minor, nor those International Studies majors who follow the Economics track. The next largest majors/concentrations are Finance in the CSOM (862), Communication (844), Biology (795) and Political Science (656). Many A&S undergraduates graduate with two completed majors.

Student Services also announced that 266 students graduated in 2013 with an A&S economics major, compared to 133 in 2007. This represented 17.5%, or over 1/6, of the 1,517 A&S graduates in the August 2012-May 2013 period. There were an additional 38 students graduating with the CSOM concentration in economics.

The Department of Economics has increased the number of full-time faculty by several positions in the past three years, with a current roster of 36. Additional full-time faculty over the next two years to strengthen the undergraduate and graduate curricula. The number of majors and concentrators has grown far faster than faculty numbers, which would be over 50 if the faculty-student ratio prevalent in the early 2000s was maintained.