Compass Lexecon

In the US and Latin America interns join the summer before their final year of study; in Europe the same internship can fall during a final year, between terms, or shortly after graduating, a pattern corroborated by Columbia's Department of Economics.

• Summer Internship: 8-10 weeks, paid, application requires a cover letter, resume, and unofficial transcript
• Research Analyst / Analyst: full-time, joins after a bachelor's or master's degree in economics or another quantitative field
• Senior Economist: requires a Ph.D. in economics, or several years of experience in a related field

There is no separate off-cycle or spring-week track. The one summer internship is the only internship-shaped route in before the direct-hire Analyst position after graduation, so a candidate who misses this single window has no second internship chance to convert ahead of the post-graduate hiring round.

Both rankings are re-assessed annually against the same field of specialist economic-consulting competitors, not one-time recognitions.

For a candidate weighing a small number of boutique economic-consulting applications against the broader strategy-consulting field, a near two-decade run at the top of two separately judged rankings is a more specific signal of standing in competition and litigation economics than firm size alone.