PhD in Economics at MIT

b_r_um
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:20:03 +0000

Different question: which university gave you a degree in mathematics without a real analysis course? That and the fact that you put the “theory” in ‘theory classes’ in quotes makes me a bit concerned about the rigor of your undergraduate education.

I cannot speak for economics graduate programs, but math graduate programs care a lot about an applicant’s undergraduate origin; they fully well understand that math is taught differently at Princeton than at a regional public university.

If you graduated from a not-so-rigorous undergraduate program, you might have to work even harder to show that you are qualified for the top PhD programs.