Bachelor of Science in Economics

University of San Francisco

Learn economics from every angle. Tackle real-world problems ranging from poverty to gender inequality to environmental pollution. Take seminars. Do internships. Graduate prepared to use your economics training to make a positive impact in underserved communities both at home and abroad. Here in the financial capital of the West, we offer you unique opportunities for hands-on experience in research projects and internships in San Francisco's Financial District. Our academic concentrations and dual degree options will best equip you for a career in economics. Students will engage in the systematic study of foundational economic concepts and relate them to economic problems and phenomena faced by people and firms. Students will use mathematical models, relational diagrams, and optimization techniques from microeconomic and macroeconomic theory to analyze real world economic problems and generate testable predictions about economic phenomena. Students will employ economic reasoning and quantitative techniques to evaluate and critique economic policies, arguments, and social problems, with a particular emphasis on the role economics plays in advancing human well-being for the poor and disadvantaged.