Game Theory Post Grad studies

March 1, 2011 5:16 AM

Post grad studies in Game Theory? Which universities have a focus in Game Theory? Are there Masters available for this? Sorry for the grunt like presentation to my question. I just thought the abbreviated style would be best for a summary review of what I'm looking for. Thanks!
posted by EricBrotto to Education (6 answers total)

I am not aware of any graduate programs - at least in the U.S. - specializing in game theory, although you can focus on that as your area of study. Game theory researchers are distributed in Economics, Computer Science, and Business. For example, Northwestern's Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has a fair number people doing game theory research. I happen to mention Northwestern because an acquaintance who completed this master's degree went to do a Ph.D. there focusing on game theory.
posted by needled at 6:15 AM on March 1, 2011

Game theory researchers are distributed in Economics, Computer Science, and Business.

...and math and political science.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:21 AM on March 1, 2011

Don't forget social neuroscience.
posted by slow graffiti at 6:40 AM on March 1, 2011

Also operations research and public policy.

The folks at the Pardee RAND Graduate School still seem to be interested in game theory.
posted by Jahaza at 6:47 AM on March 1, 2011

You should find professors who are writing articles about game theory that you find interesting from whatever angle you're interested in thinking about game theory, and then look into their departments.
posted by ChuraChura at 6:57 AM on March 1, 2011 [2 favorites]

There are really two main branches of Game Theory. The more common one is generally an economics thing, but is used in a lot of areas, (think John Nash in A Beautiful Mind). The other branch is Combinatorial Game Theory, which is in Discrete Mathematics, usually found in an Applied Mathematics dept. My PhD is in Graph Theory, which is under the same Discrete Math umbrella and crosses over into Combinatorial Game Theory regularly.
posted by monkeymadness at 12:57 PM on March 1, 2011