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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.
Generated from University of Pennsylvania’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
A suggested order for the 87 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.
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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.
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 87 ECON and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 99 more ECON courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
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.
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MATH Core Requirements; Select 1 Calculus II course; Linear Algebra; STAT Core Requirements; Select 2 course units of the following:; MATH Electives; Select 3 of the following:; ECON Core Requirement; Introduction to Micro and Macro Economics:; Waiver Conversion Complete; Intro Micro/Macro - For WHARTON Students Only:; Select an additional ECON course; Intermediate Level Micro and Macro Economics;
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Major Requirementschoose 1
2 course units of Math and 10 course units of Economics - 6 course units must be taken in the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania; Introduction to Micro and Macro Economics; Or Waiver Conversion Complete; Intro Micro/Macro - For WHARTON Students Only; Select an additional 4000-level ECON course; Intermediate Level Micro and Macro Economics; Statistics; Econometrics; ECON Electiv
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in ECON. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
5 courses deep, ending at ECON 4200
5 courses deep, ending at ECON 4320
4 courses deep, ending at ECON 8431
2 courses deep, ending at ECON 6110
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All ECON courses in the Penn catalog
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