The BC Economics PhD program is rated 31st in the nation in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings of graduate programs, tied with Michigan State University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. BC EC's score of 3.2 has risen from 2.8 in 2001 (ranked 40th) and 3.0 in 2005 (ranked 36th). The steady improvement in the program's peer assessment ranking reflects the quality of new faculty hires, graduate student recruitment and the placement of completed PhDs.
The Economics PhD program is among the highest ranked in the graduate school, with sociology (ranked 41st) and psychology (ranked 66th) also showing gains in the 2009 peer assessment by faculty, deans and other academic administrators.
19 May 2009