Economics 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 ECON coursework.

• MATH 220Calculusopens 60 courses (23 directly)
• ECON 302Inter Microeconomic Theoryopens 49 courses (38 directly)
• ECON 202Economic Statistics Iopens 27 courses (17 directly)
• ECON 303Inter Macroeconomic Theoryopens 19 courses (8 directly)
• ECON 203Economic Statistics IIopens 12 courses (9 directly)
• ECON 530Microeconomic Theory Iopens 10 courses (4 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 91 ECON and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 28 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 507

  1. MATH 221Calculus I
  2. MATH 220Calculus
  3. ECON 202Economic Statistics I
  4. ECON 203Economic Statistics II
  5. ECON 506Programming for Economic Data Analytics
  6. ECON 507Data Analytics for Applied Economics

• 6 courses deep, ending at ECON 522

  1. MATH 221Calculus I
  2. MATH 220Calculus
  3. ECON 202Economic Statistics I

• 6 courses deep, ending at ECON 547

  1. MATH 221Calculus I
  2. MATH 220Calculus
  3. ECON 302Inter Microeconomic Theory

• 5 courses deep, ending at ECON 534

  1. MATH 221Calculus I
  2. MATH 220Calculus
  3. ECON 302Inter Microeconomic Theory

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ECON yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ECON yet.

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Department events

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