Economics with Mathematical emphasis

<p>What schools have strong math-intensive economics programs? Some schools have a distinct degree: "Economics-Mathematics" while others, such as UChicago, already have intensive math integrated as a part of the normal economics program. Any further information on this topic would be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>You can gear your econ degree either way, really. Some schools are very heavy on the quantitative side, and several offer Econ-Math or Econ-Stat joint degrees. Others are geared (or can be geared) towards a more practical emphasis.</p>

<p>If you want to do a math intensive econ degree, you can find the programs fairly easily.</p>

<p>UC Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego all have "economics-mathematics".
UC Irvine has something called "quantitative economics," whatever that means.</p>

<p>Well, there's a start for you :p</p>

<p>Northwestern has the Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (MMSS) adjunct major, which most of the participants combine with econ.</p>

<p>^^seriously check into MMSS. its a great program and exactly what you're looking for. exceptional internship and job placement. perfect path to obtaining the new Kellogg certificate in financial economics as well.</p>

<p>Rice has a Mathematical Economic Analysis major. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Eecon/under/math_econ_major1.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~econ/under/math_econ_major1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Columbia has:</p>

<p>Economics-Mathematics
Economics-Statistics
Economics-Political Science
Economics-IEOR
Economics-Philosophy</p>

<p>Of course, if you want an intrinsically hardcore econ/math experience go to MIT.</p>

<p>Brown, Colgate, Wesleyan all have a mathematical economics major.</p>

<p>Harvard has Mathematics: Economics...basically it's a math major but most of your classes for the major are econ based.</p>

<p>All major Econ departments allow students to be as quantitative as they wish. There are always plenty of Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Game Theory, Financial Modeling and Econometrics courses availlable. Furthermore, most major Econ Departments allow qualified undergrads to take graduate level course. I took a handful myself, and they were very quantitative.</p>

<p>Beware that some of the so-called mathematical econmics program is nothing more than just having a few courses in math department while taking econ courses (Rice's program is one example). You can do that in ANY school as an econ major with a math minor; the difference is they select the courses for you instead of you picking them yourself. There's little integration between the math and econ. Northwestern's MMSS courses, on the other hand, really integrate math with social-sciences.</p>

<p>Lots of schools with Economics offer a concentration in Econometrics, or Economics/Math. Look under the Economics programs on the websites, if they have this concentration it will be listed there.</p>

<p>Pomona has two tracks for econ: The math-econ track and the general econ track. Math is very quantitative (advanced theory and modeling type stuff), while general is very qualitative (Political Economics, International Economics, Econ of Race & Gender, etc).</p>

<p>Chicago Princeton Harvard</p>

<p>When I was looking at this degree last year, there was a big difference in course offerings in the econ dept among the various schools. You should definitely peruse the websites and degree requirements rather than completely relying on CC. If I remember correctly, Carnegie Mellon's econ department places a lot of emphasis on math.</p>

<p>Berkeley has two tracks, one quant, one not. The word on the quant-focused degree is that if you do well in it you can go anywhere to get your PhD. The word on the other one is that it's not good if you want to go on and study econ. further, but might be good enough prep. for law school or policy school or things like that. </p>

<p>This would apply across the board, I would think, for schools that offer both tracks.</p>

<p>Any post-bachelors econ. study is basically all about math, so if you go to any research university that has any kind of a name in economics, they will have quant classes for you to take. I would assume the same would be the case with decent LACs too, but ricegal seems to have found something different and I would heed that advice.</p>

<p>If you want to know which schools have decent quant-focused econ. programs, it's probably fair to look at the rankings of econ. programs in general. Or just pick any top 50 university and confirm they offer what could be called "real economics." Because the fact is "verbally-based economics" just ain't how it's learned anymore.</p>

<p>I WANNA BE A QUANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!a</p>

<p>You can also look into the financial engineering majors at Princeton and Columbia.</p>

<p>That is definitely a possibility..........</p>

<p>The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), which is part of the University of London, offers a separate BSc degree in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics.</p>

<p>Like all UK undergraduate degrees in humanities and social sciences, it is a 3-year degree course, as opposed to the usual 4-year American B.S. Keep in mind though that:</p>

<p>1) Entry level requirements in UK universities are usually higher than in the US.
For example, ** all ** Economics students are normally expected to have studied A-Level Math or, equivalently (for overseas applicant), taken HL Math in the IB diploma program. That means they would enter university with prior knowledge of differential and integral calculus for real-valued functions of one real variable, vectors and analytic geometry in 3-D, real sequences and series, basic linear algebra, elementary probability and statistics, and possibly elementary differential equations.</p>

<p>2) Unlike in the US, there are no "general education requirements" in UK universities and students normally start taking required classes for their major right from day one</p>