By the Numbers
Students
Incoming Student Profile (2024-'25 cohort)
- Number of students – 30
- Number of countries – 15
- International student population – 97%
- Female/male ratio – 65%F / 35%M
- Average age – 23 years old
- Age range: 21-28
- Average GPA – 3.8 / 4
- Average GRE quantitative score – 165
- Average work experience – 0.5 years
2023-'24 Admissions:
- Number of applicants: 561
- Number of admits: 30
Courses & Student Work Opportunities
Most common electives chosen from recent years:
- PLSC 536 Applied Quantitive Research Design
- HPM 575 Eval GH Policies and Programs
- S&DS 565 Introductory Machine Learning
- MGT 541 Corporate Finance
- S&DS 563 Multivariate Stat Methods for Social Sciences
- GLBL 6060 Applied Python Global Affairs
- MGT 641 Behavioral Finance
- ECON 549 Economic Development 21st Century
21 faculty requested IDE students as Research Assistants for the 2024-25 AY.
Careers
Graduates from the International and Development Economics one-year master’s program generally enjoy an impressive job placement record, with many international graduates taking advantage of the OPT work visa program (with STEM extension) to apply their new technical skills in US-based positions.
IDE Placements
Graduates from the International and Development Economics one-year master's program continue to enjoy an impressive job placement record.
7
%
Entered PhD/Master's Programs
41
%
Employed in predoctoral work
37
%
Employed in the private sector
15
%
Employed in the public/dev sector
*Based on survey responses from 27 out of 31 IDE graduates in 2023.
In recent years, our graduates went on to work at the following places:
- World Bank
- IFPRI
- Inter-American Development Bank
- European Bank Reconstruction and Development
- Soros Economic Development Fund
- UK Oversea Development Initiative
- UNICEF
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- J-PAL
- EPoD
- IDinsight
- Nomura Holdings
- Citi Group
- Deloitte
- JPMorgan
- Goldman Sachs
- Frontier Economics
- UBS
- Compass Lexecon / FTI Consulting
- Chappuis Halder & Co Consulting
- Boston Consulting Group
- Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
- China International Capital Corporation
- Development Innovation Lab
- Harvard Business School
- International Monetary Fund
- McKinsey & Company
- Overseas Development Institute
- Singapore Civil Service