Bachelor of Arts in Economics
Belmont, USA
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
USD 18,500 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* full time traditional students tuition (12-18 credits hours per semester)
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Introduction
Our Focus
Human action in the valuation, making and distributing of goods, services, and productive assets.
Your Talents
You’ll flourish in the Abbey’s Economics Program if you look to develop your aptitudes of:
- quantitative reasoning characteristic of the social sciences.
- systematic, disciplined, analyses.
- reading the “signs of the times” to help resolve contemporary challenges.
- superior economics by further cultivating the mind philosophically, historically, and empirically.
Our Approach
- teach you to understand economic data and interpret financial trends
- teach from published economists who have an understanding of the World Economy and how it affects businesses and governments in the 21st century
Economics affects virtually every profession in modern life and as a student, it develops analytical reasoning through formal modeling and historical interpretation. Economics majors receive strong preparation for graduate study in Economics, law school, or MBA programs.
Your Purpose
With an Economics degree from Belmont Abbey College, you will be able to pursue a variety of opportunities, including:
- Banker
- Stockbroker
- Financier
- Economics researcher/teacher
- Marketing and sales
- Graduate/law school
- Domestic and international trade analyst
The Abbey Difference
Abbey Economics aims to cultivate in students a comprehensive understanding of economic theory, causal discovery, and its application across industries and contemporary issues. The department strives to develop student's analytical reasoning, empirical testing, effective communication, and problem-solving.
The Economics faculty is committed to modeling and encouraging the development of honesty, integrity, and virtue in our students. Our hope is to provide an atmosphere of learning and study that will, in keeping with the highest values of Catholic and Benedictine education, enable young men and women to be both successful and virtuous and to make the world more just and prosperous. First, a student of philosophy and math, pioneering Cambridge economist, Alfred Marshall, wrote that “The increasing urgency of economic studies as a means towards human well-being grew upon me.”
At the Abbey, the study of economics addresses such central societal issues as income compensations, business, and financial cycles, employment, institutions of law and commercial culture, political economy, efficiency, and growth. You will learn from published economists who have an understanding of the Global Economy and how it affects businesses and governments in the 21st century. A degree in economics prepares you for a career in finance, insurance, government agencies overseeing banking, trade, environment, and data-collection; scientific research and development, management and consulting, and state and local government. Economics majors typically secure some of the higher-paid professional careers.
Program Requirements
B.A. in Economics
Required Courses:
- EC 201: Introductory Economics I
- EC 202: Introductory Economics II
- MA 210: Mathematics for Economics and Finance
- EC/BU 306: Quantitative Analysis OR MA 208: Statistics
- EC 316: Intermediate Macro
- EC 317: Intermediate Micro
- EC/TH 352: Business Economy & Catholic Social Thought
- EC 408W: Economics Seminar
Elective Courses*:
- EC 305: Data Analytics for Economics and Finance
- EC 307: Money and Banking
- EC 355: Political Economy
- EC 400: History of Economic Thought
- EC 401: Economic History
- EC 410: Business and Society
- EC 424: Public Finance
- EC 440: International Economics and Finance
- BU 453: Internship
- EC 490: Senior Thesis
- BU 310: Finance
- BU 311: Financial Management
- BU 335: Personal Finance and Investments
- BU 411: Financial Investments
- ET 303: Financing New Ventures
- ET 300: The Entrepreneur
- BU 402: Labor Economics and Compensation
- PH 301: Ethics
- MA 205: Calculus for Managerial and Social Sciences OR MA 201: Calculus I
- MA 305: Advanced Statistics
*Must complete four elective courses.
To graduate with a degree in Economics, majors must have at least a minimum cumulative average of 2.0 across all major coursework.
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