To receive a bachelor of arts degree in economics, no more than four upper-division courses taken externally from UC San Diego can be counted toward the major.

Upon completion of the Economics major, students will be able to:

• Apply the formal methods used by statisticians to analyze data to learn about the real world
• Use basic economic methods to quantify uncertainty with confidence intervals; use regression to infer causal relationships; and use regressions for prediction
• Critically interpret empirical studies
• Set up, solve and analyze optimization models
• Apply optimization models to consumer, producer, and market theories
• Use game theory to analyze the strategic behavior of individuals and firms
• Build macroeconomic models
• Apply macroeconomic models to understand current issues