<p>I am considering enrollment at the University of Maryland-College Park and plan on majoring in economics. Anyone have any information of the department or past experience?</p>
<p>I’m not in econ but I heard the department is underfunded. If you’re in-state, then you might as well come here. But don’t bother spending $25000 a year on tuition. There are better options.</p>
<p>I’m a business major, so I only have to take intro to macro and micro, but both of those classes for me have been fine. The professors are totally accessible for teaching such huge lectures, and are very good at what they do.
But as mentioned above, its part of BSOS, which is reportedly underfunded, but I don’t know that much about it, and maybe econ is one of the smaller majors (i have no idea, econ is my only BSOS class) so maybe you won’t even have an issue.
do you live around here? Because maybe if you come down someday after school, you can just ask around if someone has office hours and see if they’ll take the time to talk to you. I never did that specifically at CP, but I’ve done it at Pitt and Davidson, just emailed someone and said hey, ur a ____ professor, i’m interested in that program, would you mind talking to me when i come visit?, and they’ve said yes, and been really helpful.
k hope that helped!</p>
<p>I’m from New York so I would have to pay out of state. My other two options are UCONN and University of Delaware both directly admitted as a finance major in the school of business. what do you think?</p>
<p>I heard its ok, but you only get a B.A. degree. If going to econ. at UMD, you should supplement it with something else.</p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>Bump :)</p>
<p>I took both ECON200 and ECON201 and the professors were some of the best I’ve had at MD (Vincent and Shea, respectively - know their stuff, are great about applying to the real world, and are very, very accessible). However the classes were not particularly challenging or anything…and rather large (400 person lecture). I’m sure they get better as you move up the ranks, though.</p>
<p>ECON is sometimes considered by business majors to be the “business school reject major” and IS, for its part, part of the under-funded BSOS college at Maryland (behavioral and social sciences). However, BSOS just got a bump in funding so it should be doing better next year. I agree that a BA in economics should be supplemented…an econ+math double major would probably be very strong, for example, whereas graduating as just an econ major may not be that good of an idea.</p>
<p>All that considered dunno whether it’s worth going out of state or not…the professors I’ve had were good (pays to go on ratemyprofessor.com or something), classes were enjoyable even if too big…but I have not taken too many, so.</p>
<p>umcp11, My s took those two classes as well and loved Shea. He transferred into the Smith school during his first semester and wants to double major in econ and business management with a minor in math. He is also going to be part of a select minor at CIDCM. I bet you paths will cross.</p>