<p>how strong is northwestern's economics department? also what is the curriculum like? are they in line with the freshwater/neoclassical theory (free markets) of UChicago or more along the lines of berkeley/harvard/mit? basically i'm interested in anything you can tell me about econ at northwestern. actually i would be majoring in BME so is it possible for engineers to double major in econ? minor?</p>
<p>bump for my own interest in obtaining a dual degree in engineering and economics as well (or at the very least, an econ minor).</p>
<p>Ya I would like to know too since I’ll be an Econ major.</p>
<p>Same here!</p>
<p>Ps. What kind of engineering are you all considering?</p>
<p>i’m definitely going to do biomedical engineering if I decide to go to Northwestern; however, right now that’s a big if considering I got into the BME program at JHU. but i’m definitely interested in supplementing my engineering curriculum with economics either way.</p>
<p>Well, I’m a junior majoring in econ so i’ll help however I can. I just finished up my degree requirements, but I’ll probably take a few more econ field courses just for the hell of it.</p>
<p>I’m not too sure exactly what UC teaches, but here it’s the pretty standard Keynesian approach. The thing I really like about econ here is that it’s really open as to what you want out of your degree. You have to take the core classes of course (intro and intermediate micro and macro, econometrics), but there’s a huge variety in terms of what upper level field courses you choose. There’s different recommended tracks, but they don’t hold you to that at all. There’s no undergraduate business degree here, so there are some of the classes you’d normally see in a program like that in the department as well.</p>
<p>As far as math goes, you need to know up to multivariable calculus, and maybe a little bit of linear algebra depending on what you want to do. The grading’s fairly tough. The curve for most classes goes to a B-/C+ average.</p>
<p>As for double majoring in econ and one of the engineering programs, it’s certainly possible. Quite a few of my friends have done it. The math requirements overlap, so really you’re looking at ~11ish courses beyond your engineering requirements to pull it off.</p>
<p>I can’t think of anything else off the top of my head. If you have more specific questions, I’ll answer them to the best of my ability. Also, for what it’s worth, we do have a new president coming in from Williams College, and he was econ there, so who knows how that may impact the department in the future.</p>
<p>MIT,
You are required to take 7 courses for your humanities/social sciences theme requirement and you can take up to 5 in one area. You also have 5 free electives. So you can take as many as 10 econ courses if you really want to!</p>
<p>OF COURSE OUR ECON IS STRONG! WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT?!</p>
<p>Industrial engineering and management sciences students can easily double-major in econ within 4 years:
<a href=“http://www.iems.northwestern.edu/docs/undergraduate/ie-econ.pdf[/url]”>http://www.iems.northwestern.edu/docs/undergraduate/ie-econ.pdf</a></p>
<p>If I remember right the new president is also an introductory economics professor and he’ll continue teaching… Isn’t that cool?</p>