<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Georgetown is considered a good school for economics?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>International Economics in SFS seems interesting. Don't know about its prestige but SFS is definetely well known and highly regarded</p>
<p>hey - i dont have direct experience with georgetown econonimcs classes, but i'm going to sfs next year and everything i've heard points towards an extremely strong economics program. considering that sfs is one of the best international relations programs, it's to be expected, i guess.</p>
<p>The econ program is great. For general SFS students, the four semester equirement tends to be a lot...most people look forward to just finishing it! I had to take an extra two semesters for my minor, but those weren't too bad bc they were mostly econ analysis as opposed to hard quantitative work. If you're an econ major, the classes get much harder much faster. People do it though, and the few that I know are happy with it. Whereas I was dreading the econ as a freshmen, I'm now pretty happy I had to do it. Even though I haven't had a course in a year, I'm planning on exempting out of my econ requirement in grad school through testing. My professors were great, the curriculum was taught in a way that made it relative (at least now that I look back on it), so I can say that I was/am satisified.</p>
<p>is the economics geared specifically towards IR? or is it just economics in general?</p>
<p>For SFS the core is microeconomics, macroeconomics, international trade, and international finance. The first two are pretty standard with the second two taking on the international aspects somewhat.
This will help: <a href="http://www3.georgetown.edu/sfs/bsfs/majors/ieco/%5B/url%5D">http://www3.georgetown.edu/sfs/bsfs/majors/ieco/</a></p>