How much math in Economics.

PurpleAndProud
Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:25:57 +0000

It completely depends on the school.

For example, my school has three economic degrees:
B.A Econ- Have to take super easy calculus course and never have to apply calculus in your classes.Stat class required but never applied in econ. Ignores that math beyond Algebra even exists.

BS Econ- Just enough math. Calc 1-3, ODE recommended. Stat and Differential calc are used extensively. One econ class using integral calculus is required.

BS Economic Mathematics- Ridiculous amount of math. Calc 1-3, Real Anyalsis, Matrix/linear Algebra, ODE, discrete/continuous modeling, more advanced stat class than BS/A econ, Math reasoning, linear/nonlinear optimization, two computer programming classes.

I hope I’ve made the point that there’s as much math as you want there to be. I don’t even think half the Economic Mathematics math requirements would be useful in economics at all.