<p>I'm an international student who has been accepted into the class of 2016. Basically, I intend to major in Economics but the AEM school has caught my eye. Would it be possible to do applied economics classes from CAS? Or is there any way to switch over? I'm not particularly interested in the management part of it but I want my course to be as quantiative and mathematical as possible and AEM seems to offer more opportunities to do so. On top of that, they offer a Bsc. degree, which is appealing to me.</p>
<p>AEM is not by a long shot more mathematical/quantitative than Econ. Neither program requires all that much math (only up to Calc II if you take the advanced Econometrics sequence in Econ). AEM may be a well-known program, but I don’t think anyone who has taken classes in both departments would say AEM has more rigor than Econ. That said, yes, it is quite easy to take AEM classes as an Econ major, but no, you can’t major across colleges.</p>
<p>A Bsc degre is literally meaningless. No one will look at an AEM applicant, see Bsc and think “Oh, that’s superior to a BA in Econ.”</p>
<p>AEM is neither harder or more quantitative than Econ (quite the opposite in fact). However, the program is directly ranked and it has quite a high rank. And yeah, mikey is right.</p>
<p>Alright thanks guys. </p>
<p>@mikey, is it possible for me to make an Econ degree more quantiative/mathematical than normal?</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, all Econ courses are going to involve a fair amount of math. However, most don’t require applying anything more than what you learn in Calc I. Econ/CS and Econ/Math are fairly common double majors. I think the math department also offers a minor. The Econ major itself is only 8-10 classes, so you have flexibility with respect to taking AEM, math, CS, or engineering classes to supplement. Although you aren’t going to get any more math in AEM. Perhaps an accounting class would be useful, depending on your interests.</p>
<p>There are also a few extra econometrics courses offered at the undergrad level such as Time Series Econometrics and Cross-Section/Panel Econometrics. If you are going to do the advanced Econometrics sequence (3190-3200) you need Calc II. Your econ advisor can give you advice about how much math to take to be more quan-oriented. I would suggest minimally going through Calc III and linear algebra to prepare you for graduate level economics. The 3190-3200 sequence is about as intense as undergrad statistics gets (from what I can tell). It’s much more akin to what Engineers are learning in statistics or math majors, rather than the stats classes offered by other departments which is basically AP Stats (plus some extra related to whatever major is offering the class).</p>
<p>Since I’m guessing you are at least considering moving on to graduate level economics, I would suggest minimally going through Calc III and linear algebra.</p>