Aiming for MSFinance or M.A.Econ (double major w/ MATH or will a minor suffice?)

ReallyOldSchool
Sun, 27 May 2012 20:57:53 +0000

The critical flaw in your plan is that Math 122 is a prereq for Econ 310/311.

Even so, that there is so little in terms of math prereq for the econ courses suggests that the content of even the upper-division econ courses must be rather light. I was very surprised to see that Linear Algebra was not a prereq for the Econometrics courses. They must be very applied.

If you have the ability, you’d probably be better off to major in Math and minor in Econ. These math-light econ courses are not going to contribute much to your future econ education as you’ll end up repeating them in more rigorous form anyway. They could provide some general background for finance, but they’d be of much less value than would principles of finance and/or accounting courses.