Department of Economics Marketing Research, Or Public Administration
science, computer science, statistics, mathematics, finance, management, Department of Economics marketing research, or public administration. 2044 Constant Hall Admission (757) 683-3567 In addition to the University’s graduate admission requirements, applicants Christopher B. Colburn, Chair seeking regular admission must have at least a 3.0 grade point average in their major. Applicants are required to take either the Graduate Record Master of Arts—Economics Examination (GRE) or the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), and they must submit at least one letter of recommendation. If undergraduate Timothy M. Komarek, Graduate Program Director GPA>3.3 the GRE or GMAT will be waived. If the undergraduate grade Economics is “the social science concerned with how individuals, point average falls below that required for regular status, applicants may institutions, and society make optimal choices under conditions of scarcity.” qualify for provisional admission. This is a broad field, covering everything from unemployment and inflation to stock market crashes and depressions, from perfect competition Requirements among firms to oligopoly and monopoly. Microeconomics studies firms, Undergraduate prerequisites include calculus (three credit hours), statistics consumers, goods markets, resource markets, labor markets, and the (three credit hours), an intermediate microeconomics, or intermediate price system. It gives recommendations about how to deal with pollution macroeconomics with grades of at least B. Students who do not yet meet and auctions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Macroeconomics studies the undergraduate prerequisites can complete those courses at Old Dominion unemployment, inflation, money supplies, interest rates, exchange rates, University before taking the advanced courses. national debt, and economic growth. Economics is concerned with Thirty semester credit hours (ten courses) of approved graduate work the problems of incentives, wealth, poverty, and income distribution.
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