Nottingham School of Economics
The Nottingham School of Economics (NSE) is one of the leading teaching and research departments in Europe. The School has almost 50 full-time academic staff and 800 undergraduate, 80 Masters and 70 full-time PhD students. It is housed in the Sir Clive Granger Building, which is named in honour of the winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, a former student and member of academic staff at Nottingham.
The School has been ranked consistently in the top 10 Economics departments in the UK by The Times Good University Guide and achieved the highest possible score in the latest UK Quality Assurance Agency audit of teaching quality. The School's standing among elite economics departments was reinforced by the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, which ranked its "research power" among the top three in the country. The measurement of "research power" takes into account not only the quality of research but, crucially, the number of staff put forward for inclusion in the RAE. To underline the strength and depth of its work, the School put forward every member of its staff. All of its research was classed as of international quality, and 85 per cent was defined as "world-leading" or "internationally excellent" - the top two possible ratings.
The School hosts six major Research Centres and has teaching and research interests in economic theory; experimental economics; money, finance and macroeconomics; time-series, cross-section and panel data econometrics; international trade and economic development; labour economics, health economics and agricultural economics.
