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Mar 28, 2025
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Economics (BSBA)
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The discipline of economics studies how to allocate scarce resource to meet unlimited wants. Nearly all public and private issues possess important economic angles. Thus, thinking as an economist provides valuable insights into our complex world. The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) in Economics prepares students for jobs in businesses, financial firms, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations and for advanced degrees in business, economics, law, public administration, and other social sciences. The economics major also complements learning in other areas of business and the liberal arts.
Please see the UNLV Lee Business School, Department of Economics web page for information about department programs, faculty and facilities. Degree worksheets and 4/5 year plan for the major are available on the UNLV Degrees Directory.
Learning Outcomes
- Use supply and demand analysis;
- Apply the concept of opportunity cost;
- Use marginal analysis;
- Use the appropriate models to explain the behavior of economic agents in different market structures;
- Explain the causes of short-run fluctuations in macroeconomic variables;
- Explain the determinants of long run economic growth;
- Predict the effects of various micro- and macroeconomic policies using the appropriate models;
- Gather, analyze, and interpret economic data;
- Describe the role and function of financial markets, institutions, and policies;
- Analyze global economic issues.
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Economics (BSBA) Degree Requirements - Total: 120 Credits
General Education Requirements - Subtotal: 35-46 Credits
Where specific course are not identified, please see the related section of the Undergraduate Catalog for information about which courses may satisfy university core requirements. First-Year Seminar - Credits: 2-3
English Composition - Credits: 6
Second-Year Seminar - Credits: 3
Constitutions - Credits: 3-6
Mathematics - Credits: 3
or higher Distribution Requirements - Credits:18-19
Please see Distribution Requirements for more information. - Humanities and Fine Arts: 9 credits
- Humanities, 6 credits required from two different areas. It is recommended that students take , as one of the humanities courses.
- Fine Arts , 3 credits required
- Social Science
- Automatically satisfied by business requirements
- Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking: 9-10 credits
- Life and Physical Sciences - 6-7 credits
- One science course with a lab
- One non-lab science course
- Analytical Thinking 3 credit course
Multicultural and International (Credits: 0-6)
Multicultural, one 3 credit course required
International, one 3 credit course required These courses may overlap with general education and major requirements. A single course may not meet the multicultural and international requirements simultaneously. Visit the Provost webpage for the list of approved Multicultural and International courses. Lee Business School Requirements - BSBA in Economics - Subtotal: 72-76 Credits
Business Administration Core Requirements - Credits: 42-45
Other Lee Business School Requirements - Subtotal Credits: 6-7
Economics Major Requirements - Credits: 24
Nine of the 24 required economics major credits must be 400-level ECON courses. General Electives - Credits: 0-13
The number of general electives necessary for each student varies based on how many credits a student uses to satisfy the requirements identified above. The minimum credits required to earn a degree from Lee Business School is 120. Economics Major Advanced Track Program
The Advanced Economics Program allows undergraduates to take one or two 700-level graduate courses (6 credits) in their undergraduate program and then count them in the MA program in economics. Students planning to pursue graduate studies in economics are encouraged to take the Economics Advanced Track Program. General Electives - Credits:0-10
The number of general electives necessary for each student varies based on how many credits a student uses to satisfy the requirements identified above. The minimum credits required to earn a degree from Lee Business School is 120. Total Credits: 120
UNLV undergraduate Economics majors must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible for the Advanced Program Track: Receiving at least a B in graduate-level Economics courses completed as an undergraduate - Satisfactory completion of Graduate College admission requirements
- Senior standing
- Minimum of 3.0 GPA
- Completion of the following courses with a minimum of 3.5 GPA and no grade lower than B: ECON 262 or ECON 441 ; ECON 302 ; ECON 303 and MATH 181 .
- Department chair or graduate coordinator’s recommendation
- Submission of two letters of recommendation, a completed Enrollment Request form to the Economics Department no less than two weeks before the beginning of the semester for which they would like to register for graduate courses
Notes
- All courses in the major requirements section must be completed with a grade of C or better.
- Any course that is included as a prerequisite for a Lee Business School course requires a minimum grade of C or better.
- ECON 302 is a Milestone Experience course for Economics B.S.B.A.
- ECON 495 is a Culminating Experience course for Economics B.S.B.A.
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