How is the Economics progam at Rutgers?

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<p>Topic is pretty self-explanatory.</p>

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<p>interested as well</p>

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<p>The economics program at Rutgers is pretty solid, but its extremely crowded - the teacher to student ratio is terrible. As you probably know, Rutgers is going through a lot of budget cuts, and my Introduction to Microeconomics class easily has 400 people in it. Granted, this is an SAS (School of Arts and Sciences) required class, so that’s why there are many people, but I think you’ll almost always be stuck with large classes if you are an econ major.</p>

<p>It is one of the most popular majors on campus and the department itself, while big, is not huge. The professor I had was very impressive and his resume definitely showed … he was a rhodes scholar! here it is …</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.business.curtin.edu.au/files/Resume_Killingsworth.pdf[/url]”>http://www.business.curtin.edu.au/files/Resume_Killingsworth.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>edit: i want to note that you’ll probably encounter large econ classes in every university you go to that’s of substantial size. if you want small class sizes, go to a liberal arts school or a pseudo liberal arts school like dartmouth.</p>

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<p>“Economics is currently the second most popular major in New Brunswick, with over 1000 majors enrolled.”</p>

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<p>Is that supposed to be a bad thing?</p>

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<p>It means you will probably get less individualized attention and it will be harder to get to know your professors.</p>

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<p>^ what he said.</p>

<p>Also…I am not experienced in this but I can give you my opinion. A significant amount of people choose to major in economics because they got rejected from the Business School. That means that a lot of “lower gpa” students take economics courses. Because of that, it may be easier to get higher grades in economics courses because of the curve.</p>

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<p>Does Rutgers offer a B.S and a B.A?</p>

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<p>how diffferent is the economic programs at SEBS and SAS ? is there a drastic difference?</p>

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<p>there is no econ program at SEBS…its only SAS.</p>

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<p>Yea, only in SAS. But does it offer a B.A and a B.S?</p>