Placement
Students entering the job market from the ‘07-’08 class placed as follows:
- Octavian Vasilescu — University of Minnesota- Morris
- Jin-tae Hwang — Korea Insurance Research Institute
- Laura Bucila — College of the Holy Cross
- Adriana S. Cordis — Ernst & Young
- Volha (Olga) Baranava — Econ One
- Patrick A. McLaughlin — Mercatus Center, George Mason University
Students entering the job market from the ‘06-’07 class placed as follows:
- Anca Cotet — Ball St. University
- Earl Davis— Radford University
- Ibrahim Demir — Benedict College
- Sebastian Negrusa — Rand
- Brighita Bercea Negrusa — NERA
- Kurt Rotthoff — Seton Hall University
- Jason Rudbeck — University of Georgia
- Aileen Sampson — FDIC
- Melissa Yeoh — Berry College
Historically, Clemson economists obtain good jobs in both academia and business. Our first graduate, Mark Mitchell (Ph.D. ‘88), won multiple teaching awards as an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He has since gone on to found a leading merger arbitrage fund in Greenwich, CT. Wei Yu (Ph.D. ‘92) began his academic career at Boston University, and is now a Fellow at the Center for Health Policy at Stanford, and Director of the Center for Health Policy at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. William Brown (Ph.D. ‘93) was Department Chair at Claremont-McKenna, one of the West Coast’s top liberal arts colleges, before returning home to UNC Greensboro. Recent graduates Thomas Evans (’03) and Doru Cojoc (’04) have taught at Chicago, Cornell, and Stanford. Other Clemson graduates have accepted appointments at Coastal Carolina, Georgia, Seton Hall, Vanderbilt, and numerous other colleges and universities throughout the world.
In the nonacademic world, Elizabeth Becker (Ph.D. ‘91), formerly Principal and Director of the Employment Economics Group at Price Waterhouse Coopers, is now Managing Director of Huron Consulting Group. Louis Lanier (Ph.D. ‘01) and Ramji Tamarappoo (’98) are economists with Nathan Associates in Arlington, VA. Eric Bertonazzi, (ABD), is President of Wainwright Investment Counsel in Boston, and Cleve Tyler (’98) is Senior Managing Economist with LECG in Washington, D.C. More recently, students have accepted top-paying jobs with Barclays (Delaware), Deloitte and Touche (Atlanta), NERA (New York), and the Rand Corporation (Santa Monica). Other Clemson graduates have been employed at the FCC, FDIC, FTC, IMF, the World Bank, and numerous consulting and business firms.
Starting salaries for new Ph.D. economists range from $60,000 to well over $100,000, depending on the nature of the job. This, together with the relatively modest financial cost of studying here, means that a Clemson economics degree is financially as well as intellectually rewarding.
Clemson MA graduates generally do very well on the job market, too. Business analyst positions require a type of training that this department offers to the serious student over twelve months of study. In the academic sphere, several of our recent graduates have gained admission to and performed very well in top law schools and Ph.D. programs. If you think that you might want to try Clemson, but maintain the option of using the education you will receive here as a stepping stone to a top programelsewhere, we encourage you to apply.
Clemson’s style of economics has opened up successful careers for many people. It might do the same for you.
