Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Ph.D.

Curriculum

Course Descriptions Learning Outcomes

The Ph.D. program in the Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics consists of 64 credits, including core courses in economic theory, with an emphasis on aspects pertinent to natural resource use. EEC 501, 502, 528, 534, 535, 576, 602, 624, 628, 630, 634,676 and 699 are required courses. You can visit the Courses link on the left side of the page to see a list of the courses offered. Additional courses may be elected from appropriate offerings in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, as well as from other disciplines including Engineering, Geography, Natural Resource Science, Oceanography, Mathematics, Political Science, Statistics, Computer Science, and Management Science. A dissertation is written on a problem involving environmental and natural resources or in an associated industry. A dissertation defense is required. A Ph.D. qualifying examination is required of students admitted without the M.S. degree in a related field.

At least 34 credits must be taken at URI (see see Graduate School Manual [GSM] 7.54). For students who have received the master’s degree in the same field of study or in a closely related field, all coursework beyond the master’s degree towards the doctorate must be at the 500 or 600 level. For students without a master’s degree who enroll in a doctoral program, but who complete a master’s degree along the way to the doctorate, 400-level courses may be applied only to the master’s degree Program of Study. For doctoral students who do not have a master’s degree, and who do not earn a master’s degree along the way to the doctorate, up to 12 credits of 400-level courses may be applied to the doctoral Program of Study (GSM 9.21).

Full-time students not on an assistantship are required to carry a course load of 9 – 15 credits. The usual semester course load for students not on an assistantship is 12 credits. A normal load is 9 credits for a student on an assistantship; 6 credits is the minimum for full-time students on assistantships.

Credit transfer

The number of credits a student can transfer depends on whether the student has a master’s degree in the same or closely related area and whether the degree was granted by URI or an outside institution. For details, refer to Graduate School Manual 7.20.

 

Contacts

Graduate Program Director: enre_grad@etal.uri.edu
Graduate Admissions: enre_grad_admissions@etal.uri.edu