Would you like to do graduate work in economics? Here's some advice:

§  Prepare yourself by taking plenty of math courses. You will need a more-than-basic knowledge of calculus, matrix algebra, probability theory, mathematical statistics, differential equations, and real analysis. Here are the math courses taken by a recent undergraduate preparing for a Ph.D. program in economics:

• MATH-1910: Calculus I (4 hours)
• MATH-1920: Calculus II (4 hours)
• MATH-2010: Linear Algebra (3 hours)
• MATH-2050: Probability and Statistics (3 hours)
• MATH-3110: Calculus III (4 hours)
• MATH-3120: Differential Equations I (3 hours)
• MATH-3260: Differential Equations II (3 hours)
• MATH-3460: Foundation of Higher Mathematics (3 hours - similar to real analysis)
• STAT-3150: Mathematical Statistics I (3 hours)
• STAT-4190: Mathematical Statistics II (3 hours)

In her first semester at graduate school, this same student reported: 'I've used every bit of math that I took--Calculus I, II, and III, Differential Equations, Foundations of Higher Math, Linear Algebra, Statistics--and I've used all of it a lot already. My advice to anyone going to an Economics PhD program is to... double major in Math and Economics...'

§  Economics is a social science; an economist needs to know something about philosophy, biology, psychology, history, sociology, political science, and anthropology. Pick courses that you think are really interesting - they will help you discover the kind of work you want to do as an economist.

§  A computational revolution is sweeping economics, as cheap computing power offers the possibility of doing whole new kinds of analyses. Most of the software is free and open-source. I recommend that you familiarize yourself with these four packages:  R (use it with the GUI RStudio), Python (taught at MTSU in the introductory Computer Science course—CSCI 1170), Octave (an open-source alternative to MATLAB), and Maxima (an open-source alternative to Mathematica).
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