ECON-MA - Economics (MA)

An MA degree may only be pursued in combination with a doctoral degree from Economics or another department at the university. Students must be enrolled in a PhD program at Stanford before adding the Economics MA degree. Economics students may, but need not, elect to add this degree to their current PhD degree after they have been enrolled at Stanford for at least one quarter. 

Non-economics PhD students must have completed Stanford University requirements for a BA in Economics or approximately equivalent training. Since non-Econ PhD students are required to take some of the same courses as Economics PhD candidates, similar preparation in mathematics and statistics is generally expected before the petition to add the MA is approved.