Economics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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 400Introduction to Data Science and Econometricsopens 42 courses (42 directly)
• ECON 410Intermediate Microeconomicsopens 21 courses (13 directly)
• ECON 470Econometricsopens 7 courses (7 directly)
• ECON 710Advanced Microeconomic Theory I.opens 6 courses (5 directly)
• ECON 325Entrepreneurship: Principles, Concepts, Frameworks, and Fluencyopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• ECON 310Microeconomics: Theory and Applicationsopens 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 97 ECON and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 58 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.

• 5 courses deep, ending at ECON 811

  1. ECON 101Introduction to Economics
  2. ECON 410Intermediate Microeconomics
  3. ECON 710Advanced Microeconomic Theory I.
  4. ECON 810Game Theory I.
  5. ECON 811Game Theory II.

• 4 courses deep, ending at ECON 394

  1. ECON 125Introduction to Entrepreneurship
  2. ECON 325Entrepreneurship: Principles, Concepts, Frameworks, and Fluency
  3. ECON 327Venture-Creation Workshop

• 4 courses deep, ending at ECON 493

  1. ECON 525Advanced Financial Economics
  2. ECON 493Practicum in Quantitative Financial Economics

• 4 courses deep, ending at ECON 523

  1. ECON 101Introduction to Economics
  2. ECON 410Intermediate Microeconomics
  3. ECON 420Intermediate Macroeconomics

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ECON yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ECON yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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