Graduate Programs
MA in Economics
The Department of Economics at California State University, Fullerton offers a program leading to the Master of Arts Degree. The program offers a variety of features:
Assistantships are available to qualified students.
Regular research seminars are open to students and faculty.
If all prerequisites have been met, the program can be completed in three semesters of full-time study or two and one-half years of part-time study.
Classes are offered in the late afternoon and evenings to facilitate part-time study.
The department is part of the well-known College of Business and Economics on the main campus. It has a full-time faculty of 30 who are active in teaching and research, and who maintain a close working relationship with graduate students.
This program consists of 30-33 units and must be completed with a minimum GPA of 3.00. Any study plan course in which a D grade is received must be repeated with at least a C grade, regardless of overall grade-point average of the student.
Students may obtain their degree either through a thesis exit track or an examination exit track. Students may also customize their program based on one of six area of interest. Those areas include:
- Environmental Economics
- International Economics and Finance
- Industrial Organization and Labor
- Public Sector Economics
- Banking and Finance
- Economics of Human Capital, Health, and Aging
Area & Elective Courses (12 -18 units)
Area courses require (9 units) chosen from the student’s field of interest.
Coursework may focus on the following areas:
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
| ECON 461 | Ecological Economics (3) |
| ECON 462 | Natural Resource Economics (3) |
| And (6 units) approved 500-level electives | |
International Economic and Finance
| ECON 411 | International Trade (3) |
| ECON 433 | The Less Developed Countries and the World Economy (3) |
| And (6 units) approved 500-level electives | |
Industrial Organization and Labor
(6 units) must be selected from the three Economics courses listed below
| ECON 410 | Industrial Organization (3) |
| ECON 412 | Labor Economics (3) |
| ECON 413 | Law and Economics (3) |
| And (6 units) approved 500-level electives | |
Public Sector Economics
(6 units) must be selected from the four Economics courses listed below
| ECON 416 | Benefit Cost and Microeconomic Policy Analysis (3) |
| ECON 417 | Public Finance (3) |
| ECON 420 | Money and Banking (3) |
| ECON 421 | Monetary and Fiscal Policy (3) |
| And (6 units) approved 500-level electives | |
Banking and Finance
| ECON 420 | Money and Banking (3) |
| ECON 421 | Monetary and Fiscal Policy (3) |
| And (6 units) approved 500-level electives | |
Economics of Human Capital, Health and Aging
| ECON 412 | Labor Economics (3) |
| GERO 506 | Economics of Aging (3) |
| And (6 units) approved 500-level electives | |
Among area and elective courses, (12 units) must be taken with at least (6 units) at the 500-level and at least (6 units) must be in Economics.
| Terminal Evaluation (3 units) | |
| ECON 598 | Thesis Research (3) |
| Or Comprehensive Exam | |
For More Information
For more information and list of requirements for entry into the
program please
click here
University catalog: click here
Please send any inquiries or suggestions to Dr. Andrew Gill, Graduate Advisor.
