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