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Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
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.
Generated from Northwestern University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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 55 ECON and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 16 more ECON courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: ECON 310-1
Gateway: ECON 310-2
The deepest prerequisite chains in ECON. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
6 courses deep, ending at ECON 327-0
6 courses deep, ending at ECON 380-2
6 courses deep, ending at ECON 398-2
5 courses deep, ending at ECON 323-2
All ECON courses in the Northwestern catalog
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