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UWM Open House
Welcome to all of you who visited us during the UWM Open House. We hope that you found some helpful information at the Open House and our special Open House website. Please be sure to contact us if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you in the future!
UWM Economist in the News
Prof. Scott Adams, who was on leave last year while serving on the Council of Economic Advisors, was the subject of a recent article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about his experiences in Washington, DC during the change from the Pres. Bush to Pres. Obama administration and the tumultuous economic times over the past year. Prof. Adams was also a recipient of a 2009-10 UWM Foundation/Graduate School Research Award. This award recognizes outstanding research achievements by members of the UWM faculty in their respective fields of endeavor."
Attention Graduate Students
If you plan to take the field comprehensive exams in January 2010, you must register with the Economics office by no later than Nov 13, 2009. Contact Prof. Bahmani for more information.
Graduate Student Awards
The Department would congratulates the winners of two annual prizes given by the Department to outstanding graduate students. First, Swati Kumari is the winner of the 2009 J. Walter Elliott Award in Macroeconomics. Second, Miao Chi is the winner of the 2009 Richard Perlman Outstanding Paper Prize in Labor Economics. Congratulations to you both!
Research Seminar Series
The next research seminar of the Fall 2009 semester will be presented by Sumit Agarwal of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago who will present "Do Financial Counseling Mandates Improve Mortgage Choice and Performance?" on Friday, Nov 13 from 2-3:30pm in Lubar Room N110. The full list for the semester is found here. For more information, contact our Seminar Series Convener, Prof. Bahmani.
'Informal' Micro/Labor Workshops
The 'brown-bag' seminar series for micro oriented papers will be held on Wednesdays at 12:30. This seminar series is oriented for work that is in its beginning stages, and so is very informal. The next talk for Fall 2009 will be by Mike Coon who will present, "Walking ATM's: Do Crime Rates Affect Remittances of Mexican Migrants in the United States?" on Wed Nov 18 at 12:30 in the Economics Conference Room. A list of presenters for the current year can be found here. Contact Prof. Heywood for more information or to sign up to present.
UW-Milwaukee Department of Economics
Located in the College of Letters and Science, the Department of Economics is home to 21 faculty members, internationally recognized for their research and dedicated to excellence in teaching. The UWM Economics Department offers an undergraduate degree as well two graduate degrees: a terminal M.A. degree and a Ph.D. degree, only one of two Ph.D. programs in economics in Wisconsin.
From introductory through to graduate classes, the Economics curriculum stresses both theory and application of important economic issues in society, such as unemployment, inflation, exchange rates, labor markets, economic development, international trade and finance, and outsourcing. Economics also offers the practical advantage of opening up career opportunities. Both firms and government agencies are interested in undergraduate Economics majors for entry level jobs in management (here is a list of jobs in which our graduates are currently employed). The degree demonstrates your ability to clearly analyze situations, and an ability to work comfortably with numbers. A national survey of starting job offers for the Class of 2009 shows that graduates with an economics degree have a starting salary of $49,628, on average, the highest of any starting salaries for business related majors. In fact it is higher than the starting salaries of any non-engineering or computer science major. Another report by the Wall Street Journal confirms this and shows that earnings by economics majors nearly double by mid- career to over $98,000.
The pages on this website offer more detailed information about the degree programs, faculty, and research, as well as other information about the Department of Economics. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions, and we hope that you enjoy your visit to our website.