Students majoring in Economics with a concentration in Asset Management have the unique opportunity to learn economic principles while maintaining a special focus on its financial aspects. Firms nowadays are embracing analytics methods at various points across the asset-management value chain, producing increased sophistication in distribution, better investment decision making and improvement in middle- and back-office productivity. A combined BA Economics with Asset Management/MBA degree prepares students for the broader business world and gives them an opportunity to earn a highly visible professional degree in a shorter period of time.
The “4 + 1” Bachelor’s/MBA is a five year program, during which students will spend three years taking courses required for their chosen bachelor’s degree program and in their fourth year, they will complete (along with required undergraduate program courses) 6 credits worth of graduate business (MBA) coursework. This will satisfy both undergraduate degree requirements and count toward achievement of the MBA degree. In the fifth year, students will take graduate courses required for a General MBA, in a full-time format. Students interested in this option can find more information regarding program requirements on the University's Combined Programs website.
Program Requirements
Students in this combined degree program must complete the requirements for:
Economics Major, Asset Management Concentration (B.A.)
Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Graduate Swing Courses
A combined degree program allows students to complete 6-12 graduate credits ("graduate swing courses") while enrolled as an undergraduate. These courses count for both their bachelor and master’s degrees. Graduate swing courses will count toward undergraduate free electives, unless noted otherwise.
The Graduate Swing Courses for this program:
Recommended Roadmap to Degree(s)
This recommended five-year plan is provided as an outline for students to follow in order to complete their degree requirements within five years. This plan is a recommendation and students should only use it in consultation with their academic advisor.
Fifth year courses are taken at the graduate level, after matriculation into the graduate portion of this combined degree program.
Undergraduate Program
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (A) New Student Seminar | 1 | GENERAL EDUCATION: (C2) Literature | 3 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (C1) Writing | 3 | GENERAL EDUCATION: (K1) Social Science – American and European History | 3 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (C3) Communication | 3 | ACCT 201 | 3 |
| ECON 101 | 3 | INFO 173 | 3 |
| ECON 102 | 3 | ECON 203 | 3 |
| MATH 100 (if needed or Free Elective) | 3 | ||
| 16 | 15 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| World Language 1 | 3 | GENERAL EDUCATION: (F1) Humanities – Great Works and Their Influences | 3 |
| ECON 207 or 206 | 3 | World Language 2 | 3 |
| ECON 208 | 3 | ECON 317 | 3 |
| ECON 224 | 3 | ECON 324 | 3 |
| INFO 240 | 3 | ECON Major Elective | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Third Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (F2) Humanities – Philosophical and Religious Perspectives | 3 | GENERAL EDUCATION: (K2) Social Science – Global Cultural Perspectives | 3 |
| ECON 370 | 3 | ECON 395 | 3 |
| ECON 390 | 3 | FINC 430 | 3 |
| FINC 322 | 3 | BUGN 320 | 0 |
| FINC 326 | 3 | Concentration Elective | 3 |
| BUGN 310 | 0 | Concentration Elective | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (I) Natural Science Laboratory | 4 | GENERAL EDUCATION: (D) Fine and Performing Arts | 3 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (J) Physical Education | 1 | World Cultures | 3 |
| ECON 438 | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | MBA Graduate Swing Courses | 6 |
| Free Elective | 3 | ||
| 14 | 15 | ||
| Total Credits 120 | |||
Graduate Program
| Fourth Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer | Credits | ||||
| First Half | |||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| MBA Elective course | 1.5 | ||||
| Second Half | |||||
| MBA Core course | 3 | ||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| 10.5 | |||||
| Fifth Year | |||||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| First Half | First Half | ||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | MBA Core course | 3 | ||
| MBA Flexible Core course | 1.5 | MBA Elective course | 1.5 | ||
| MBA Flexible Core course | 1.5 | Second Half | |||
| MBA Elective course | 1.5 | MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||
| Second Half | MBA Core course | 1.5 | |||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| MBA Elective | 1.5 | ||||
| 10.5 | 9 | ||||
| Total Credits 30 | |||||