Economics Major Information

 

Major Requirements pdf.

 

What is economics?

Simply put, it is the study of making choices. Buy a new car or pay college tuition? Build more hospitals or more highways? More free time or more income from work? Economics considers the behavior ofindividuals as well as the collective behavior of businesses, industries, countries, and even the globe as a whole.

  About the program

• Open Major
• 48 credit hours
• Allied requirement makes it easy to double major or add a minor
• Omicron Delta Epsilon Honor Society for Economics majors in good academic standing
• Student Advisory Committee to get involved with the department and faculty 

Tailor your education to your interests

 Economics is flexible in terms of potential career paths. The major can be customized to achieve career and academic goals. Choose courses that fit the following career paths

•  Business
• Public policy/government
• Pre-law
• Graduate work in Economics, Business,Social Sciences

  A competitive major that pays off

Economics majors earn higher starting salaries than students who major in any other social science field. Economics degrees are highly competitive because they office diverse skills that can be usefule for various fields:

• logical reasoning
• problem solving
• abstract thinking
• data modeling
• researching

 

Fulfill University requirements

Courses from Economics can be used to fulfill the University’s general education or Bachelor

degree requirements.

see the major requirements pdf. for details