Wharton & CAS double major?

45_Percenter
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:33:38 +0000

Only THE NAME of the Wharton undergraduate degree is “B.S. in Economics.” It is NOT, in fact, an economics degree as that term is usually used. It’s just the traditional name of the Wharton undergrad degree going back over a century. But it is NOT actually an economics degree as currently defined.

An undergraduate economics degree is a BA with a major in economics which–at Penn, at least–requires 10 courses in economics. Very few, if any, Wharton undergrads take anywhere near that number of economics courses.

(Historical footnote: it USED to be possible to actually major in economics as a Wharton undergrad, but that hasn’t been the case for many years now).