MIT has introduced a new blended 'micromasters' program that can help people earn their master's degree in data, economics and development policy.

MIT’s Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) master’s offers an affordable, flexible path for aspiring economists.

While it is becoming increasingly common (and easy) for lectures to be placed online as videos or podcasts, such media can often be very limited in their utility. For example, I missed a lecture ...

More than 500 undergraduates either major, minor, or concentrate in economics, and some 2,100 enroll in economics courses annually. Fourteen of the 64 Nobel Prizes earned by MIT faculty and alumni ...

MIT is allowing students to take rigorous courses in data, economics and development policy online for credit, and if they perform well on exams, to enroll in a master's degree program on campus.

Alumni from the third cohort of students in the J-PAL/MIT Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) master’s program reflect on why they chose the program and share what they have found to be ...