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Professor Neelam Jain is the Placement Officer for NIU's Economics graduate students. You can email her at njain@niu.edu or call her at 815-753-6964.

Employment Outlook for Students with a Graduate Degree in Economics

The market continues to be strong for economists with graduate degrees from NIU. Masters students who have good quantitative, problem-solving, and communication skills are highly sought after by private employers in the Chicago area, and our Ph.D. students continue to get offers from academic, public-sector, and private-sector employers. Recent U.S. employers include:
 

Allstate Insurance Lexecon, Inc.
R.W. Baird and Associates Mount Union College, Ohio
Barat College Lake County Administrator's Office
Computer Horizons, Inc Purdue University at Calumet
First Card/ First USA Robert Morris College
First National Bank of Marin Las Vegas The Signature Group
Hewitt Associates United Airlines
Household Finance University of Chicago Medical Sciences Center
Illinois Council on Economic Education University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Information Resources Incorporated (IRI)

 

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, employment of economists is expected to grow 20-30 percent in the near future due to the continued need for economic analyses by financial analysts, lawyers, accountants, marketing researchers, urban and regional planners, and many others. Those skilled in quantitative techniques and their application to economic modeling and forecasting should have the best job opportunities. 
 

 

 

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