<p>From anyone's experience, is the Economics major at Stern more quantitative or theoretical? Like, will I get to do a a significant amount of math or will I be learning a bunch of theories?</p>
<p>Stern’s is obviously more applied and less theoretical than in CAS. To my knowledge, the only difference between the Stern and CAS econ major is the lower level classes – CAS students have to take 2 micro and 2 macro core courses and international econ while stern’s micro is pretty much both of the CAS courses combined into 1 and their international econ class is more business oriented. I think that Stern’s statistics class is different too. All higher level Econ courses are taken in CAS for both.</p>
<p>It depends. If you are majoring in econ at Stern as your first major you have the option to major in Economic theory. For example my primary major is finance and my secondary is business economics which is obviously more quantitative. It will also largely depend on what courses you choose since you only have to take 4 courses to complete your major. Some are more theoretical and others more applied.</p>
<p>^that’s because apart from the core courses which I mentioned, the Econ majors are the same – CAS requires a concentration in either theory or policy as well. You’re right though – you have the option of taking more theory or policy based courses, regardless of what you decide to concentrate in.</p>