{"id":2157,"date":"2018-03-19T21:26:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/economics\/?page_id=2157"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:48:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/economics\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"type-intro fullwidth\">The mission of the department of economics is to create, propagate, and apply economic knowledge and to contribute to related interdisciplinary endeavors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-metric  \"><span>&gt;150<\/span><span>Undergraduates<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-metric  \"><span>16<\/span><span>Full-Time Faculty<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-metric  \"><span>3<\/span><span>Degrees Offered<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Career Options<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Majoring in Economics is valuable because graduate schools and employers often view graduation with an economics degree as evidence of your ability to think logically and critically and your mastery of basic quantitative skills. It also provides a good background for many jobs in business, management, and government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Undergraduate training in Economics provides a liberal arts education that prepares students for a wide array of interesting career options including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Graduate work<\/strong>&nbsp;in business, economics, international relations, law, public policy, or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Employment<\/strong>&nbsp;in banking and financial services, education, management trainee programs, government administration, and community and public service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  block-level prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/joe\/\" title=\"\">AEA Career opportunities<\/a>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hear From Our Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xGq8S_gakZM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission of the department of economics is to create, propagate, and apply economic knowledge and to contribute to related interdisciplinary endeavors. Facts Career Options Majoring in Economics is valuable because graduate schools and employers often view graduation with an economics degree as evidence of your ability to think logically and critically and your mastery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2157","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6074,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2157\/revisions\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}