ACE at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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 ACE coursework.

• MATH 220Calculusopens 20 courses (6 directly)
• ECON 500Microeconomicsopens 10 courses (10 directly)
• ACE 300Intermediate Applied Microeconomicsopens 9 courses (9 directly)
• ECON 302Inter Microeconomic Theoryopens 7 courses (7 directly)
• FIN 221Corporate Financeopens 6 courses (3 directly)
• ACCY 201Accounting and Accountancy Iopens 6 courses (1 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 ACE 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 81 ACE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 42 more ACE 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 ACE, 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 ACE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at ACE 440

  1. ECON 102Microeconomic Principles
  2. ACCY 201Accounting and Accountancy I
  3. ACE 345Small Business Finance
  4. ACE 444Financial Services & Investing Planning
  5. ACE 440Finan Plan for Professionals

• 5 courses deep, ending at ACE 532

  1. MATH 221Calculus I
  2. MATH 220Calculus
  3. ACE 562Applied Regression Models I

• 4 courses deep, ending at ACE 410

  1. MATH 221Calculus I
  2. MATH 220Calculus
  3. ACE 300Intermediate Applied Microeconomics

• 4 courses deep, ending at ACE 428

  1. ECON 102Microeconomic Principles
  2. FIN 221Corporate Finance
  3. FIN 300Financial Markets

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ACE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ACE yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

ACE does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UIUC campus feed.