[3][4][5] The school exhibits research activity and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees.

[10] In 2018, Siwan Anderson, a development economist at the VSE, received the Rae prize, becoming its first woman recipient.

[11] The School manages the British Columbia Inter-University Research Data Centre.

The RDC provides access, for approved projects, to selected confidential Statistics Canada micro-level data.

In 2002, UBC's Faculty of Arts expanded the number of full-time equivalent undergraduate student spaces in economics by 50%.