The Department of Economics at the University of Crete offers a Ph.D Program in Economics. The aim of the Program is to offer high level training in Economics and to promote economics research in our country. More precisely, the goal of the Program is to train the Ph.D students so as to conduct high quality research in microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, applied economics, quantitative methods, political economy, etc. As a result, its graduates are able to serve as faculty members in Greece and abroad, as researchers in research centers or as consultants in public and private enterprises and organizations.