Study with us

We annually give select Graduate Students the opportunity to write their doctoral thesis at the IIES. Here you can find further information on what we have to offer.

Graduate students are provided with a broad set of courses taught by faculty from IIES, the Department of Economics at Stockholm University and the Stockholm School of Economics, before embarking on their own research agenda. Our graduate students go on to have successful careers in and outside of academia, and numerous leading researchers have spent their formative years at the IIES. Here you can find information about some of our current graduate students and their work, our past placement record and the structure of the graduate program.

Our graduate students currently receive financial support from Handelsbankens forskningsstiftelser, the Torsten Söderberg foundation and the Tom Hedelius foundation. We are grateful for their investment into the future of economic research.

PhD Studies at the IIES

First and foremost, we house a number (currently over 30) graduate students, who all work toward their PhDs in economics (there are usually also some visiting students here). Their research is supervised by IIES faculty and it is a central pride of our department. IIES students are admitted when they have begun their dissertation work, i.e., after completing most of their coursework.

Second, faculty at the IIES of course teach courses on different levels: undergraduate, master’s, and PhD. Since all of our faculty teach in the PhD program, our PhD students therefore first meet and get to know them in the context of the course-work phase of their education. On the master’s level we teach a number of courses too, including development economics and climate and the economy. One of the largest undergraduate classes of the entire university, moreover, is taught by IIES faculty member John Hassler!

Much more on the Stockholm University PhD program and how to apply can be found here.