Princeton University Department of Economics

Princeton University Department of Economics

The Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building at Princeton University, home to the Department of Economics
Type	Private
Established	1913
Parent institution	Princeton University
Academic staff	65 full-time faculty members[1]
Students	Approximately 300+ undergraduate students and 141 graduate students[2]
Location	Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Website	economics.princeton.edu

The Princeton University Department of Economics is an academic department of Princeton University, an Ivy League institution located in Princeton, New Jersey. The department is renowned as one of the premier programs worldwide for the study of economics. The university offers undergraduate A.B. degrees, as well as graduate degrees at the Ph.D. level. It is often considered one of the "big five" schools in the field, along with the faculties at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, Stanford University, and MIT.^[3] According to the 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report, its graduate department is ranked as the joint No. 4 in the field of economics, in a four-way tie between it, the University of Chicago, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley.^[4]

The department is centered at the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building & Louis A. Simpson International Building, formerly 20 Washington Road, which also houses the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Bendheim Center for Finance, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance.^[5] It is also home to the Industrial Relations Library.