Requirements
The Master of Arts in Economic
Policy Analysis requires for admission:
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the general GRE test
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three letters of recommendation, preferably from former professors
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the completed Graduate School
application form
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students who are not native
English speakers must also send TOEFL scores.
The M.A. in Economic Policy
Analysis has no special deadlines for admission. However, students who
wish to apply for teaching or research assistantships during the following
academic year must submit their
applications to the Graduate School by mid-February. The Graduate School
deadlines for applications for the Fall semester are July 1 for domestic
students and January 1 for international students. A Graduate School application
form is available
on-line from the UMBC
Graduate School web page.
Recommendations
To succeed in the program
students will need some undergraduate economics, mathematics and statistics
background. We require that, before a student takes the core economic theory
and econometrics courses,
he or she successfully complete courses in intermediate micro-economic theory and
intermediate
statistics. We also very strongly recommend that students
complete an undergraduate econometrics course before taking ECON 611, the graduate
econometrics course, and complete and undergraduate mathematical economics course
before taking ECON 601, the core microeconomic theory course.
However, students do not need to have completed all these courses
before applying to the program. An intermediate microeconomic theory course,
an undergraduate econometrics course, and a mathematical economics course will be
offered at UMBC each summer for those students who wish
to enter the program but have not yet taken such courses. The mathematical
economics course, ECON 490, will provide students who have had at least
one semester of undergraduate calculus with the mathematics background
necessary to succeed in the M.A. program.
For those who are unsure
if they have sufficient background in economic theory, mathematics, or statistics,
please contact the Economic Policy Analysis
Graduate Program Director at econ-masters@umbc.edu.
