Hello! I’ve been interested in looking at majoring in mathematics(pure) + some other major and recently I’ve started to investigate potentially having the other major be in economics.
I really enjoy the theory and I enjoy applying my knowledge of maths to the concepts of my introductory microeconomics course. However, I really don’t enjoy the more social-sciency side of things for econ since to me it feels more like I’m memorizing a bunch of factoids which I know some people enjoy but I really do not like. As a result, if I were to major in economics it’d have to be something that is very math heavy to 1: complement my pure math degree with an applied concentration and 2: to not fail all my classes because I really struggle with those rote-learning type courses.
As a result, I was wondering which universities offer a degree in econ that has a large amount of maths incorporated in it (for example instead of 1 semester of game theory and 1 semester of econometrics it might be a year for both, or maybe an intro to xecon course that is mathematically demanding, etc.)
It’s been hard to find which majors are like this since course catalogs can only tell you so much and also I have no idea on how to check this kind of metric myself. If someone does have a method of checking this kind of metric please tell me so I can take the search myself and investigate.
Also, please no super duper difficult schools to get accepted to. I know the absolute lowest my GPA can be is a 3.6-3.65 so nothing above that for the average GPA of these unis.
Reverse international student, while I’m looking for schools in the US all of my reach schools that I have now planned on applying to are outside the US.
I am an American high school student from California. It’s just that applying to overseas schools is already stressful and I don’t want to add the stress by now needing to tailor a bunch of special applications for schools in a country that I’m not all that privy to living in.
These schools are mostly going to be targets and safeties which is why I said no super duper difficult schools to get accepted in.
I am already applying to Humboldt, Sonoma State, San Fran State, Stani State, and San Bernadino, I think if I were to apply to anymore I would have to pay for those applications.
And I have not changed my list of ECs. I still plan on pursuing them. As I said in my last thread, these are things I decided to do cause they’re fun more than anything.
If you’re curious, the app development is going great and I’ll probably have a very bare-bones version of it done sometime during the summer, the research is not going great which was what I expected and I don’t think I’ll ever be finished until I have grad school knowledge.
The rest of the ECs are going great rn.
Either way, are any of the Cal States particularly known for a strong economics program? From what I’ve seen it seems like the more reputed an econ program is the more math they have in their program but idrk. I guess I’ll have the cal states recommended to me for that theory since if that theory holds true I do get kinda screwed over since the reputed programs are all really hard to get into
UCB, UCI, UCSD, UCSC do offer higher math options of intermediate economics and/or econometrics courses. You may also want to check course catalogs and schedules for upper level math intensive courses like UCB’s Economics C103, 104, 138, C147. Also, check on the accessibility of graduate level economics courses by undergraduate students at any school.
I think I’ve heard of it, it does fit my criteria but it was very expensive for me. I’ll go ahead and look at what their internal scholarships are for OOS but from what I could recall they priced me at like 30k after aid
I am already applying to SC and SD while keeping Merced and Riverside as safeties. Most likely I’d have to give the boot to one of those schools to apply to Irvine. Which one do you suggest I drop for that if my focus is more on maths than econ?
He is but like 45k per year is on par with Oxbridge, the net cost of living in Bonn or Achen (actually much cheaper but it don’t matter). So I have to compare this school with those schools and I don’t think it’s really worth it.
Plus, looking at the maths course catalog there it’s a pretty light math pure math curriculum in comparison to to other schools. No real analysis course, no major course to broaden your knowledge after abstract algebra, nothing on geometry besides differential geometry.
It’s probably one of the best applied maths majors and one of the weakest pure math majors. I would not be prepared at all for graduate level courses if I were to go there I think.
