Economics at Cornell University

A suggested order for the 145 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ECON coursework.

• ECON 3030Intermediate Microeconomic Theoryopens 43 courses (40.5 directly)
• MATH 1120Calculus IIopens 24 courses (2 directly)
• ECON 3130Statistics and Probabilityopens 22 courses (9.5 directly)
• ECON 3040Intermediate Macroeconomic Theoryopens 12 courses (11.3 directly)
• ILRLE 2400Economics of Wages and Employmentopens 11 courses (11 directly)
• ECON 3140Econometricsopens 11 courses (10.5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ECON work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 145 ECON and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 77 more ECON courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on ECON, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in ECON. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at ECON 7540

  1. MATH 1110Calculus I
  2. MATH 1120Calculus II
  3. ECON 3130Statistics and Probability
  4. ECON 4020Game Theory
  5. ECON 6822Game Theory II
  6. ECON 7540Economics of Networks: Theory

• 5 courses deep, ending at ECON 3545

  1. MATH 1110Calculus I
  2. MATH 1120Calculus II
  3. ECON 3130Statistics and Probability

• 5 courses deep, ending at ECON 3710

  1. MATH 1110Calculus I
  2. MATH 1120Calculus II
  3. ECON 3130Statistics and Probability

• 4 courses deep, ending at ECON 3875

  1. ECON 1110Introductory Microeconomics
  2. ECON 3030Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
  3. AEM 6080Production Economics

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on ECON sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Adam Harris
• Alan Mathios
• Amanda Agan
• Amilcar Velez
• C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell
• Chen Qiu
• Douglas McKee
• Eleonora Patacchini
• Eswar Prasad
• Evan Riehl
• Ezra Oberfield
• George Boyer
• George Hay
• George Jakubson
• George Orlov
• Ivan Rudik
• Jacob Dorn
• Jeremy Lise
• Jose Luis Montiel Olea
• Julieta Caunedo
• Justin Bloesch
• Kaushik Basu
• Luisa Cefala
• Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel
• Max Kapustin
• Michael Richards
• Michele Belot
• Nancy Brooks
• Nicholas Sanders
• Pauline Leung
• Rohit Lamba
• Ryan Chahrour
• Sulagna Dasgupta
• Ted O'Donoghue
• Terence Murphy

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ECON yet.

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Department events

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