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ECON-MA - Economics (MA)

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General

Program Policies

Learning Outcomes

Program Overview

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.  

Minimum Units in the Program

45

Minimum University Units

45
Completion requirement

A master’s program must satisfy these criteria:

  • Completing, at Stanford, at least 45 units of credit beyond those required for the bachelor’s degree, of which at least 40 units must be in the Department of Economics.

  • Any undergraduate courses taken toward the master’s must be numbered 105 or higher. No seminar courses numbered 300 or above can be counted.

  • A grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 must be maintained for all master’s level work. All lecture courses must be taken for a letter grade

Complete ALL of the following Courses:
  • 1134001
    OR     2022701

They must receive a B- or better grade in course Microeconomics I or course Microeconomics I For Non-Economics PhDs students.

Each course in the Metrics Sequence must be completed with a B- or better.

Complete at least 1 of the following:
Complete ALL of the following Courses:
  • 1133732
  • 1133741
OR
Complete ALL of the following Courses:
  • 1132801
  • 1132811
  • 1406151

Any undergraduate courses taken must be numbered 105 or higher. No seminar courses numbered 300 or above can be counted.

Complete at least 3 courses in the following Course Sets:
Complete at least 1 of the following:

Submitting two term papers (or a thesis of sufficient quality). At least one of these papers must be deemed to represent graduate-level work. Usually, this means that it is written in connection with a 200-level course. A maximum of five credit units can be earned for a thesis (Econ 400 or comparable MA thesis or dissertation course in another department) toward the 45-unit degree requirement.

OR

Complete an additional two 200-level ECON lecture courses above the 45-unit requirement.

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