Economics Degrees
Studying economics gives you the skills to research and analyze data that is related to money. Production values are part of your area of expertise if you choose to major in this subject area. The program also teaches critical thinking skills, as well as how to recognize and analyze economic cycles and trends. A degree in this subject area will qualify you for the following kinds of work:
• Business Journalist
• Econometrician
• Financial Economist
• International Economist
• Labor Economist
• Legislative Assistant
• Macroeconomist
• Microeconomist
• Organizational Economist
• Public Finance Economist
Concentrations in an economics degree program include the following options:
Classical Political Economy
Economics of Labor Markets and Race, Class, and Gender
Environmental Economics
Financial Economics
International and Development Economics
As part of your economics degree program, you will be taking courses similar to the ones listed below:
• Comparative Economic Systems
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Economic Development and Growth
• Economics of Health Care
• Economics of Industry & Public Policy
• Economics of Labor
• Environmental and Resource Economics
• Financial Economics
• Financial Intermediation & Financial Markets
• International Economics
• International Finance
• International Trade
• Law and Economics
• Macroeconomics
• Macroeconometrics and Macroeconomic Forecasting
• Monetary Economics
• Money and Banking Systems
• Political Economy
• Principles of Financial Engineering
• Public Economics: Taxation
• Quantitative Analytical Methods
• World Political Economy
