College of Business Administration

ECONOMICS

ACCELERATED UNDERGRADUATE-GRADUATE PROGRAM (B.A./M.S.)

Department of Economics, BA2 305, 407-823-3266
http://www.bus.ucf.edu/economics
Major Advisor: R. Pennington, BA2 303B, 407-823-2640,
E-mail: robertp@mail.ucf.edu

This program is designed for highly qualified majors in Economics who would like to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees in five rather than six years of full-time course work. The program provides students with specialized training in economics within a broad liberal arts education. A minor from several other colleges can be selected according to the student’s personal interests and career goals.

Admission Guidelines

• Completion of the UCF General Education program or an AA degree from a Florida Public Community College
• See Common Program Prerequisites
• For admission to graduate courses, students must achieve a minimum 3.25 GPA after completion of 80 credit hours and meet the UCF graduate admission requirements as described in the Graduate Catalog.

Degree Requirements

(36 hrs)

1. UCF General Education Program

9 hrs

A. Communication Foundations

• Required: SPC 1600

9 hrs

B. Cultural and Historical Foundations

C. Mathematical Foundations

• 3 hrs
  Select MAC 2233 or 2311 Calculus
• 3 hrs
  Select STA 2023 Statistical Methods I

D. Social Foundations

• 3 hrs
  Select ECO 2013 Principles of Macroeconomics
  or ECO 2023 Principles of Microeconomics
• 3 hrs
  Select one: PSY 2012, SYG 2000, ANT 2000

6 hrs

E. Science Foundation

(3 hrs)

2. Common Program Prerequisites

* See Transfer Notes for possible substitutions

(16 hrs)

3. Required Undergraduate Major Courses

* At UCF, students who have completed MAC 2233 (or any Calculus1 & 2 sequence) and STA 2023 will be waived from ECO 3401. Students who have not completed both classes with a “C” (2.0) or better must take ECO 3401.

** Students in the BA/MS program are encouraged to select MAC 2311, 2312 and 2313 along with STA 4321 and 4322 as substitutes for ECO 3401 and ECO 3411.

(3 hrs)

4. Restricted Elective

3 hrs

Select any other 3000-4000 level economics course.

(15 hrs)

5. Courses shared BA/MS

* 15 hours counts towards both BA and MS

(18 hrs)

6. Required Minor

Completion of a minor in one of the following: Computer Science, Environmental Studies, History, Mathematics, Statistics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology or Public Administration. Other minors may be selected with prior approval of the Economics Undergraduate Advisor.

7. Program Exit Requirements

• A minimum grade of 3.0 is required for all graduate courses.
• A minimum GPA of 2.5 is required for all courses taken in the major and minor.
• Computer Competence is met by Research Methods course.

(0-8 hrs)

8. Foreign Language

Admission: Met by graduate requirement.

Graduation: Proficiency equivalent to one year of college instruction in a foreign language taught by the Department of Modern Languages and Literature or Judaic Studies. Standardized examinations for foreign languages may be used to meet the requirement.

(variable)

9. Electives

10. University Minimum Exit Requirements - B.A.

• 2.0 UCF GPA
• 60 semester hours earned after CLEP awarded.
• 48 semester hours of upper division credit completed.
• 30 of the last 36 hours of course work must be completed in residency at UCF.
• A maximum of 45 hours of extension, correspondence, CLEP, Credit by Exam, and Armed Forces credit permitted.
• Complete the General Education Program, the Gordon Rule, the CLAST and nine hours of Summer credit (if applicable).

120 hrs

Total Semester Hours Required (B.A.)

(9 hrs)

11. Courses taken toward MS

Six to nine additional hours of 6000 level economics electives.

A maximum of three hours of an approved non-economic elective may substitute for an economics elective. Select from disciplines such as mathematics, statistics, public administration, health sciences, political science, legal studies, computer science, and environmental engineering.

(6 hrs)

12. End of Program Option:

All candidates for the M.S. in Economics degree must complete an end-of-program option. This requirement can be met by any of the following two options: 1) Thesis option or 2) Course work option (see the Graduate Catalog for a detailed description of the options).

135 hrs

Total Semester Hours (BA/MS)

The baccalaureate degree will be awarded when program requirements for the BA are met and students have completed a minimum of 120 hours of credit. Students will then be reclassified as graduate students. The MS will be awarded on completion of the total program of study.

The following will be waived for this joint degree program:

• The limit of nine hours to be shared between undergraduate and graduate programs
• Undergraduate students taking 6000 level courses must be within nine hours of graduation
• Undergraduate students taking 6000 level courses must not register for more than a total of twelve hours in that semester Transfer Notes:
• Grades below “C” (2.0) are not accepted.
• Courses taken at community college do not substitute for Upper Division courses.
• Courses transferred must be formally evaluated for equivalency credit. The student must provide a course syllabus and any other supporting information with his/her petition for this evaluation.
• ECO 2013 and 2023 are prerequisites for all subsequent economics courses.