Economics at Loyola University Chicago

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 201Principles of Microeconomicsopens 13 courses (10 directly)
• ECON 202Principles of Macroeconomicsopens 11 courses (5 directly)
• MATH 130Business Calculusopens 8 courses (1.3 directly)
• ECON 303Intermediate Microeconomicsopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• ECON 304Intermediate Macroeconomicsopens 2 courses (2 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 32 ECON and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 9 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.

• 4 courses deep, ending at ECON 320

  1. ANTH 100Globalization and Local Cultures
  2. ECON 201Principles of Microeconomics
  3. ECON 303Intermediate Microeconomics
  4. ECON 320Urban Economics

• 4 courses deep, ending at ECON 336

  1. ANTH 100Globalization and Local Cultures
  2. ECON 201Principles of Microeconomics
  3. ECON 304Intermediate Macroeconomics

• 3 courses deep, ending at ECON 346

  1. MATH 131Applied Calculus I
  2. MATH 130Business Calculus
  3. ECON 346Econometrics

• 2 courses deep, ending at ECON 421

  1. ECON 420Managerial Economics
  2. ECON 421Business Fluctuations

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

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