Economics at Binghamton

BingUStudent
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:24:02 +0000

Hi,

My name is Rob and I’m a Binghamton University Student Ambassador.

I’m a freshman with one of my majors in Financial Economics, so I have some experience with the economics courses at Binghamton. The economics courses vary in difficulty. They start out relatively easy at the introductory level, but they get progressively more difficult. One of the great things about the introductory courses, though, is that they’re very representative of the type of work you would be doing in the upper-level courses in the Economics Department. You’ll have enough information, based on the type of work you perform in Intro to Macroeconomics/Intro to Microeconomics, to determine whether an Economics major is the right fit for you.

As a general rule of thumb, you should definitely enjoy working with graphs if you wish to pursue an Economics degree. Working with graphs in different capacities makes up a lot of the coursework for economics, as graphs are used in the field to show different economic trends at the macro or micro level.

Returning to the difficulty of the courses, I’m currently taking my first upper-level economics course (Macroeconomic Theory), and I’ve never felt overwhelmed. There are certainly some difficult aspects to the coursework, but as long as I keep on top of my studying and reading of the textbook, it’s very manageable.

If you have any other questions, please ask!

Sincerely,
Rob Clark