<p>is that feasible? do I need to take some econ course in undergrad level as electives? or do I need a minor in economics??????</p>
<p>I'll put it to you this way. Vernon Smith got his bachelor's in electrical engineering from Caltech, then got his PhD in economics at Harvard. He then went on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002. </p>
<p>Or how about this. Victor Fung got his bachelor's in EECS from MIT and then a PhD in business economics from Harvard Business School. He then taught at HBS before going home to run the multi billion-dollar Hong Kong trading conglomerate Li & Fung. </p>
<p>Or how about this. John Hauser got 4 engineering degrees from MIT (a bachelor's, master's, and doctorate in EECS, as well as a master's in Civil Engineering). Yet now he's a professor and guru of marketing at the MIT Sloan School. Yeah, OK, marketing isn't economics, but still, it's pretty impressive to get 4 MIT engineering degrees and also to become recognized as a world authority on business marketing.</p>
<p>Some of the best Economists never even took Economics until they went to graduate school. Hell, John Nash never even took Econ at the graduate level and won the Nobel Price in Economics for his work in Game Theory. The great British Economist, Alfred Marshall was a Mathmatician. His pupil, John Keynes, was also a Mathematician. In fact, I would go so far as to say that at its core, Economics is nothing more than applied Mathematics. So it is definitelypossible to major in Engineering and proceed with graduate studies in Economics. In fact, given the quantitative nature of the field, most graduate Econ programs would probably prefer a math or engineering major who took a few Econ classes than an Econ major who hasn't taken enough math classes.</p>
<p>Even top economics programs only require intermediate micro/macro and maybe econometrics, and even those requirements could be waived if your math background is strong enough. On the other hand, there's not much use for an MA in Economics, so that's why the top programs don't offer it.</p>
<p>don't they have the pogram in UCSB which you can do an engineering undergrad and master in business econ</p>