About our Program

At this time the Center for Neuroeconomics at New York University is not a degree-granting entity, nor do we intend to develop a doctoral program in neuroeconomics in the near future. Instead, graduate students are admitted to the Department of Economics, the Department of Psychology, or the Department of Neural Science. Within each of those departments students develop a secondary concentration in neuroeconomics based on a shared interdepartmental curriculum. For a listing of relevant courses in each of the three parent departments, use the navigation tabs on the left.

We have developed this approach at NYU for two reasons. First, we are convinced that as students compete for faculty jobs it is essential that they have traditional expertise in a recognized department. By placing our neuroeconomic program within traditional departmental boundaries we insure that our students can compete effectively on the job market. Second, it allows us to tailor neuroeconomic training more precisely to the needs of our students. Incoming students with a background in Neural Science, for example, take basic classes in microeconomic theory that they may not have encountered as undergraduates. Incoming economic students, in contrast, are steered towards beginning classes in brain anatomy and biological psychology. In this way our students, who come from very different backgrounds, gain a common base for their neuroeconomic research by the third year of graduate school. Beyond that point, students from all three departments are free to engage in research throughout the Center.

For a full list of faculty affiliated with the Center for Neuroeconomics, please see Our People page.