{"id":2165,"date":"2015-05-18T13:57:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T17:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2015-05-18T14:05:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T18:05:37","slug":"congratulations-to-bus-class-of-2015-economics-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2015\/05\/congratulations-to-bus-class-of-2015-economics-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to BU&#8217;s Class of 2015 Economics graduates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please celebrate the students who earned <strong>482 Boston University degrees in Economics <\/strong>at Commencement over the weekend. This year the program contained:<\/p>\n<p>22 Ph.D. recipients<\/p>\n<p>155 Master&#8217;s degree recipients (MA, MAPE, MAEP, MAGDE MA\/MBA, BA\/MA)<\/p>\n<p>305 BA recipients (including BA\/MA)<\/p>\n<p>This represents a <b>total of 482 degrees! <\/b>Up from 463 in 2014.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>These numbers undercount the total for the year since it may exclude students who graduated in January 2014 and chose not to appear at Commencement.<\/p>\n<p>The number of graduate degree recipients (177) is down from last year when we had 234.<\/p>\n<p>Last year (2014) there were 17 PhDs, 207 Master&#8217;s degree recipients, and 256 BA recipients.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether <b>19 Ph.D. students <\/b>obtained jobs this year (versus 23 last year). This is an undercount since some obtained jobs directly. To see the Ph.D. placements visit the web site linked here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/gradprgms\/phd\/placements\/\">http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/gradprgms\/phd\/placements\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The department&#8217;s\u00a0 website now lists <b>40 regular faculty (up two) <\/b>with titles of assistant, associate or full professors, a number which matches 2012.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/people\/faculty\/\">http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/people\/faculty\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please celebrate the students who earned 482 Boston University degrees in Economics at Commencement over the weekend. This year the program contained: 22 Ph.D. recipients 155 Master&#8217;s degree recipients (MA, MAPE, MAEP, MAGDE MA\/MBA, BA\/MA) 305 BA recipients (including BA\/MA) This represents a total of 482 degrees! Up from 463 in 2014. These numbers undercount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2015\/05\/congratulations-to-bus-class-of-2015-economics-graduates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations to BU&#8217;s Class of 2015 Economics graduates!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185,7243],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}