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Graduate Student Programs

The Mercatus Center supports graduate students interested in understanding social change and in applying economic ideas to solve problems in the world. Our student fellows work closely with Mercatus Center scholars, enjoy access to our rich network of affiliated faculty, participate in sponsored conferences, seminars, workshops and readings groups, and become actively involved in a learning environment where they can grow as scholars, as well as, policy and business analysts. 

• Our PhD Fellowship Program is a three year competitive fellowship program for students who are pursuing a PhD in economics at George Mason University. Our PhD fellows take courses in Virginia political economy, Austrian economics, and institutional analysis and work on projects that use these lenses to understand global prosperity and social change.
• Our Dissertation Fellowship Program is a one year, renewable, competitive fellowship program for students who have advanced to candidacy in their PhD program at George Mason University and are working on dissertations that aim at understanding how social change occurs and how to create a freer society.
• Our Master's Fellowship Program is a competitive fellowship program for students in George Mason University's MA economics program (thesis option) who are interested in pursuing an advanced degree in applied economics in preparation for a career in business or public policy. Our masters fellows take specialized courses which provide analytic training in applying economic ideas to solve problems in the world.

In addition to receiving full tuition waivers and stipends, our fellows also receive a laptop computer, as well as, access to shared workspace and additional funding for conference travel and professional development.