The Economics Department at the University of Memphis is a nationally recognized department that combines rigor in research productivity with excellence in teaching and student service.  We believe strongly in pushing forward the boundaries of our knowledge of the economic world via research and scholarship, as well as sharing our insights with the students of the University of Memphis, that we might prepare the next generation of economists and scholars. Members of our faculty have published in top journals in many areas of economics and have won university and national recognition for their teaching and research. 

Graduates of our Ph.D. program have been placed in tenure-track positions in colleges and universities across the U.S. and worldwide.  Our undergraduate majors are among the best and brightest on campus and we pride ourselves on being very exclusive with our students.  We set an early standard of excellence as one of the first departments in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics to have an all-Ph.D. faculty and we plan to continue this standard on into the future.