Do Economics MA Programs Ever Take Students with Little to No Undergrad Economics?

[iamdanthemanstan]

Does anyone know if decent MA economics programs willing to take students who didn't study economics as an undergrad if they have some math and very good GRE scores?

[ELM616]

Its possible. If you have strong math background from another discipline such as engineering, physics, and of course math, etc then you may get a conditional admit.

 

The condition being that complete intermediate micro and intermediate macro before starting your graduate coursework. I was a business major with enough math, GRE and intermediate macro so I recieved a conditional admit to an MA in Econ at an ok program. I took intermediate micro in the summer before classes started and I was off and running. 

 

Im now finishing up my MA and have been accepted to a PhD with funding. So just research the programs you're interested in and you should be good to go.