Best for Econ Grad School (ph.d)

phuriku
Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:03:20 +0000

I know someone who majored in mathematics and didn’t even minor in economics and got into every single economics graduate school (he’s now at Stanford). In the course catalog somewhere, it says that those who want to go for a PhD in economics should be thinking about taking higher math classes, but it says absolutely nothing about taking higher economics courses.

And yeah… in the academic world, Chicago’s math department’s reputation is just as strong as its economics department’s. Taking higher math courses as an econ major shows you’re for real if you can manage good grades. Please don’t take 195.