PhD in Economics
Admissions
Admission to PhD in Economics is either through talents admission route or national university entrance exam (concour) for Iranian nationals. For international students, please seek advice from the international affairs office. After initial screening applicants are invited for an academic interview which is a key requirement for PhD admission. The number of students admitted to the PhD degree is around 4 each year.
Requirements
Students must complete remedial pre-requisite courses depending on their background as well as the economics department’s assessment. Students must also complete 3 core and 2 optional courses. The optional courses are approved by the supervisor based on the thesis topic. At the end of the first year, students sit through the comprehensive exam on the topics of the first-year core courses and econometrics. Having passed the comprehensive exam, they progress to the research part of the program, where they need to defend their PhD proposal and complete three research papers. One of these papers must at least be accepted by accredited English journals before the candidate can hold the viva session. The current majors offered under the PhD Economics degree are Monetary Economics, Financial Economics, Public Economics, and Macroeconomics.
