<p>What is the economics department at McGill like?
in terms of ranking, teaching, size etc. . . </p>
<p>anyone know?</p>
<p>I'm an economics major.</p>
<p>Let me break it down for you. There's two paths, honours and majors. Honours is extremely difficult. I tried it. The average for the first midterm was a 41, and that was out of 135 highly motivated students-a minority of students actually make it through. Honours is very quantitative, and is based around a lot of calculus/stats.</p>
<p>Majors is more theoretical, and lass quant-oreinted. Its still pretty challenging, but not nearly as hard as say, top 10 u.s. schools econ. The honours program is at least as hard UC berkely/duke, as their cirriculum is pretty much the same. </p>
<p>Also, don't expect any personal attention or advising. Classes are large in the first years. Proffesors are more or less innacessible, but this is only because they are often at the cutting edge of economics research/publishing. So with the prestige of your proffessors comes the neg. of not being able to talk to them.</p>
<p>McGill also offers Finance, International development, and business courses. I think many students don't realise what econ actually entails-its not a poly sci discipline.</p>
<p>Oh yeahf you make it through honours, you can get some of the best jobs in canada and get into top 10 grad schools.</p>
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<p>What if you do the Majors econ program instead of the honors program? How's the job market then? Can you still land the high profile companies or is it near impossible? Is Economics worth it at mcgill if you don't do the honors program?</p>
<p>To quote Professor Dickinson (Econ prof) himself, "No. If you want to go to grad school, take the honours program as they prepare you with the math skills you will need."</p>
<p>Most schools, an Econ major is sufficient, that's because at most schools Econ majors MUST take Calc 1 and 2 and Linear Algebra (look at UofT's requirements, which I consider to be the best Econ program in the country). At McGill Econ majors are not required to take the math courses. What you can do is take the regular Econ course and strive for an A which will automatically get you into honours. If you don't get an A but a B+ or A- you can take a test at the end of the year to switch into it. </p>
<p>Econonmics at the graduate level is basically just applied mathematics, hence the need for those math courses.</p>
<p>if youve already taken calc 1 and calc 2 at another university will that change anything?</p>
<p>Well, that I would assume that 2/3 of your math requirements for Econ Honours are fulfilled.</p>
<p>what about law school? is it still very advantageous to do honours vs. major?</p>
<p>Man, you can major in Operatic Studies and still do Law School.</p>