Undergraduate Mathematics Courses Required and Recommended for Admission to Economics PhD Programs in the United States

Martin Milkman and Riza Marjadi

The American Economist, 2017, vol. 62, issue 1, 118-125

Abstract: This note presents a list of mathematics courses, normally taken at the undergraduate level, which are required or recommended as part of the admissions criteria for all economics PhD programs in the United States. The data in this note were gathered through a survey of PhD program directors, retrieval of data from PhD program websites, and personal conversations with PhD program directors in the United States. All of the data were collected during the spring and summer of 2016.

Keywords: mathematical literacy; PhD economics; admission requirements; economic education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A22 A23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0569434516672777

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