2018-19 was an excellent year for the Department’s junior researchers!

Our PhD programme’s goal is to train world-class economists and accompany our students onto the academic job market or positions in international organizations. In order to ensure that they get to where they want to go, our graduate cohort is deliberately small - we admit under 20 students per year and fully fund them.

Are you interested in pursuing a PhD in Economics? A key discipline taught at the college level, Economics is also one of the pillars of research at Sciences Po. What kind of research in Economics does Sciences Po do? How does one select a PhD topic in this discipline? Emeric Henry, Associate Professor at the Economics Department in Sciences Po, director of studies in Economics at the Doctoral School, offers some advice and answers.