The Economics Graduate Program at North Carolina State University combines the academic resources and research expertise of economics faculty in two departments and colleges: the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics (ARE) in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the Department of Economics in the Poole College of Management's Jenkins Graduate School of Management. These departments, home to over 40 graduate faculty, collaborate to offer a program that is balanced between theory and application and designed to prepare students to be successful in academia, research, government and private industry. The Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy further enhances this collaborative aim, bringing faculty from both ARE and Economics together with natural and social scientists throughout North Carolina to focus on the state's and nation's most pressing environmental policy issues. The master's degree programs at NC State allow students to tailor their experience to match their own research interests and career goals. Master's students may opt to pursue a degree with an applied focus (the terminal master's track) or a more theoretically based degree designed to give them the best foundation possible for further graduate work in economics (the PhD-prep track). In both tracks, they may further tailor their experience by choosing to concentrate in one or multiple of the four fields: financial/macro econometrics, international trade and development, natural resource and environmental economics and economic policy. Students can also choose between engaging in a research project culminating in a thesis (the MS degree) or simply pursuing a coursework only option (the MR degree). Students may enroll in our programs on either a full-time or part-time basis.