<p>I got accepted into UCLA for an Economics and Mathematics joint major. How is UCLA's econ program?</p>
<p>I was a Math/Econ major. Let me know if you have any more specific q’s. As is it the question is pretty vague. Refer to my thread on this page where I address some of my experiences with the program</p>
<p>@dontcha Hi! Thanks for letting me know! Yes, so I’m an Out-of-state student enrolling at UCLA for Fall 2014.
I have a few questions regarding the major.
- Would you say this was a very useful/practical major?
- How’s the job outlook?
- Did you go to graduate school/business school after this?
- I know classes at UCLA are large especially in more popular majors like Economics. How much did that affect you? I don’t necessarily mind classes like that, but will I be able to learn them well/thoroughly?
- How was your experience at UCLA in general?
- What do you think about Econ/Math as opposed to Econ itself?</p>
<p>@sunkissed529 </p>
<p>Ok, here we go lol…</p>
<p>1) I think it is a useful and practical major. Through the classes I got a solid foundation in math and econ, and still had room to take classes that were more applied and less theoretical. I think it made an impression in interviews for jobs, and also (to this day) leaves grad school in math or econ on the table</p>
<p>2) I think the job outlook is good. The major feeds in well into investment banking, consulting, and general finance.</p>
<p>3) As mentioned in (1), graduate school is a distinct possibility. And UCLA would be on my list – several math professors (Brown, Balmer, Tao, Merkurjev, etc) are outstanding</p>
<p>4) The key to large classes is to sit close to the front. Also, lectures are mostly for information gathering – a lot of the “learning” happens on your own time and with your TA.</p>
<p>5) I enjoyed my experience at UCLA. I get nostalgic all the time and wish I could do it over again. Happy to answer any more specific questions about campus life, clubs, etc</p>
<p>6) I prefer Math/Econ to just Econ. If you start with just Econ, you’ll always go back and forth with the whole “should I minor? should I double major? am I boring?” conversation. My advice is to start with Math/Econ, take a couple math classes to get a feel for where your interests are, and then think about (1) staying with Math/Econ, (2) switching to Biz Econ (if you like accounting), (3) Identifying a minor you like and adding that to the Econ major, or (4) doing some other major entirely.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>@dontcha Thank you soooo much!
As a math/econ major, does the school help you with any courses that are required? How do i know which courses to choose?</p>
<p>You’ve been a great help!!!</p>
<p>@sunkissed529</p>
<p>Help in terms of tutoring? Yeah, there’s a Student Match Center where grad students help undergrads…and then office hours as well of course.</p>
<p>As far as enrolling in classes, you can meet with L&S counselors or math department counselors…although as a freshman math/econ major, your schedule will likely be (1st quarter) math / ge / ge , (2nd quarter) math / econ / ge, etc</p>