How much undergrad. math do you need for Grad. School in Economics

ericmeng
Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:13:29 +0000

Economics is the number one applied math discipline - the most successful grad students are math, physics, operations research, industrial engineering, etc. majors.

Econometrics is actually probably not that important. You can pick up all the economic concepts in grad school - a lot of students do. Just change your major to math or something like that and work hard at getting good grades.

Make sure you take the hardest Real Analysis class available - (you have to learn Lebesgue!)

Good luck! You don’t have to love theoretical math, you just have to be good at it. If that doesn’t work out there is always the Business Ph.D.