Center for Economic Research & Graduate Education - Economics Institute

Facts and Figures

Meeting the students at CERGE-EI is an inspiration. Investing in the education of these remarkable young men and women and what they will contribute to their countries is both socially responsible and smart business.  Alan Brown, Chief Investment Officer Schroder Investment Management, Ltd

As students and scholars from CERGE-EI, 40 percent of whom are women, assume leadership positions, their outlook on international issues will have been shaped by CERGE-EI’s multinational environment and their periods of international study.  Knowledge and understanding gained at CERGE-EI enable its graduates to help promote peace and economic stability in potentially turbulent regions such as the Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia. Links forged at CERGE-EI help secure Russia and other former Soviet countries firmly as a part of the West.

CERGE-EI Students Are From:

CERGE-EI student origin pie chart

"CERGE-EI benefits enormously from being able to select top students from all the transition countries.  First, this means they are bright.  In addition, and this is a peculiarity of CERGE-EI, their backgrounds provide a rich pool of experiences that allows the study of transition in a way that goes beyond the particular institutions and histories of their home countries. Ronald Anderson,  Professor of Finance, London School of Economics