Required Courses: 7 Credits

• ECON 105 - Principles of Microeconomics 3 Credit(s)
• ECON 110 - Principles of Macroeconomics 3 Credit(s)
• ECON 492 - Senior Seminar 1 Credit(s)

Elective Courses: 24 Credits

choose eight courses

• Students must take at least three electives from Economics (ECON).
• Students must take at least two electives from ACCT, MGMT, and/ or FINA.
• A list of qualified electives is kept in the department office.

Cognate Requirements: 3 Credits

• STAT 100 - Statistics 3 Credit(s)

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• MATH 125 - Probability and Statistics I 3 Credit(s)

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• Equivalent Statistics Course 3 Credits

Note(s)

• Business Economics majors must earn a minimum grade of 2.0 in every course counted toward the major (required, elective and cognate courses).
• Students need not take ECON 105  and ECON 110  in sequence. Students must receive a grade of 2.0 or higher in each appropriate prerequisite before taking upper-division economics courses.
• A minimum of 15 credit hours in the major must be at the upper-division level.
• Students may not double-count more than two common courses between any majors and minors in the Department of Economics and the Department of Business Administration. Cognate requirements are excluded from this rule.
• Transfer students are expected to meet the same major requirements as non-transfer students. 18 hours of the major course work must be completed at Potsdam.
• Students may not double major in Business Economics and Economics.