A checklist is the list of requirements to complete this program and receive the award, as the college publishes it in its catalog. It is the same for everyone. It does not say what you have completed; that comes from applying your own record.
Program
- Award
- BS
- Credential class
- ceterms:BachelorDegree
- Total credits (published)
- 18
- Catalog edition
- 2026-2027 RIT Undergraduate Catalog
- Checklist type
- degree-program
- Description
- RIT’s economics major prepares you to collect and analyze information, monitor economic trends, and develop forecasts to guide industries in making critical decisions. Economists play a vital role in a range of industries, from business and law to social sciences, agriculture, and environmental studies. They study how society distributes its resources, including land, labor, raw materials, and machinery, to produce a range of goods and services. They also conduct research, collect and analyze information, monitor economic trends, and develop forecasts to guide industries in making critical decisions. By developing your communication, computational, and management skills in addition to refining your economic reasoning and quantitative abilities, you’ll be prepared to apply economic analysis to help solve real-world problems. The major emphasizes the quantitative, analytical approach to dealing with economic problems in both the public and private sectors. You may choose one of the following three tracks: economic theory, environmental economics, or managerial economics. Electives allow you to pursue advanced study in your individual areas of interest and/or develop a double major. Along with finance, marketing, mathematics, statistics, or computer science, there are many possibilities. In your final year, you will be complete a creative capstone experience.
Identifiers
- IPEDS UNITID
- 195003
- CourseShelf checklist
- CK_195003_5178c80a
- CollegeTransfer.Net
- Institution Transfer Profile
- Source
- CourseShelf publish 61
Requirements to complete
Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.
Managerial Economics Track (MET)
6 items
- ACCT 110Financial AccountingNot resolved to a course3
- ECON 405International Trade and Finance 1Not resolved to a courseor: ECON-406 Global Economic Issues3
- ECON 410Game Theory with Economic ApplicationsNot resolved to a course3
- ECON 430Managerial EconomicsNot resolved to a course3
- FINC 220Financial ManagementNot resolved to a courseor: ECON-431 Monetary Analysis and Policyor: ECON-433 Financial Economics3
- One upper division Economics elective or one Mathematics or Computing course (taken from a list of approved courses)Not resolved to a course3
Economic Theory and Policy Track (ETPT)
3 items
- ECON 410Game Theory with Economic ApplicationsNot resolved to a course3
- One upper division Economics electiveNot resolved to a course3
- Any combination of four of the following: Economics upper division electives, Mathematics courses (taken from a list of approved Mathematics courses), and/or one Computing course (taken from a list of approved Computing courses)Not resolved to a course12
Environmental Economics Track (EET)
5 items
- ECON 421Natural Resource EconomicsNot resolved to a course3
- ECON 422Benefit-Cost AnalysisNot resolved to a course3
- ECON 520Environmental EconomicsNot resolved to a course3
- One upper division Economics elective or Computing course (taken from a list of approved courses) or Mathematics course (taken from a list of approved Mathematics courses)Not resolved to a course3
- Any two environmental electives from an approved list of COLA or COS coursesNot resolved to a course6
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