She is an academic achiever.

Janet Yellen was an intelligent child from a young age. Janet Yellen was the Fort Hamilton High School valedictorian, to give you an example.

Janet Yellen originally intended to study philosophy but ended up graduating from Brown University with a degree in economics in 1967. However, she changed her chosen major to economics after her first year of college after being particularly affected by the George instructors. Herschel Grossman and Herbert Borts. She was chosen to join the Phi Beta Kappa Society while in college. Brown University awarded Yellen a bachelor's degree in economics in 1967, and Yale University awarded her a master's and a doctorate in economics in 1971. Employment, Output, and Capital Accumulation in the Economy was the title of her thesis. Under the direction of eminent economist and Nobel laureate James Tobin, Open Economy: A Disease Equilibrium Approach. She was one of her former professor Joseph Stiglitz's sharpest and most notable students, who is also a Nobel laureate. She continues by referring to Tobin and William Brainard of Yale as "lifetime mentors" who helped lay the intellectual groundwork for her economic beliefs.

Among the twenty economists who received doctorates at Yale in 1971, Yellen was the only female. She was not only accepted into one of the nation's prestigious Ivy League universities, but she also graduated with the highest honor, summoner cum laude.