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Economics at Yale-NUS covers a breadth of methodologies and topics that intersect with fields like computer science, environmental studies, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. The major boasts an impressive faculty with numerous teaching and research awards.

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Economics is a social science that provides a strong mix of analytical and quantitative skills, and opens opportunities in a wide array of fields in both the private and public sectors.

Reflecting this breadth as a discipline, it touches upon nearly every aspect of human activity and behaviour, as well as their relation to the wider world. At its heart, it provides a basic toolkit for the analysis of and engagement with the most pressing issues of our time.

To some extent, economics is the science of everyday life. It is the study of how households, individuals, firms, and governments make decisions and how institutions, markets, and societies allocate scarce resources. It is also now a heavily empirical area of study, interacting with the frontiers of computer science, data science, and statistics. 

As such, it equips students with the tools to analyse “big” questions in the social sciences:

  • Has globalisation gone too far or not far enough?

  • How best to forestall climate change or mitigate its effects?

  • What are the appropriate policy responses to discrimination in all its forms?

  • What are the drivers of and solutions to inequality, both across and within countries?

  • What is the role of institutions and their persistence in explaining present-day outcomes?

 

Many Economics majors find positions in banking and finance, consulting, and start-ups while others now serve as advisers to policymakers, analysts of various stripes, and NGO leaders. Another natural path is entering graduate school in economics, which is the training ground for leading roles in academia, central banks, international institutions, and increasingly technology companies.

It is also possible to switch from economics and attend graduate school in many other fields. Economics provides a strong background for further studies in business, law, public administration/health, and transportation/urban studies.

 

Economics at Yale-NUS

Economics at Yale-NUS covers a breadth of methodologies and topics that intersect with fields like computer science, environmental studies, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. The major boasts an impressive faculty with numerous teaching and research awards.

Their research interests are richly diverse, but with strengths in applied microeconomics, development economics, econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, and international economics. Their geographical expertise spans the global macroeconomy, but with special interest in East, South, and Southeast Asia.

 

Careers in Economics

Our alumni have gone on to pursue exciting positions in government and industry. The list below gives a sense of the wide range of careers our alumni have pursued after graduation:

  • Enterprise Singapore

  • Singapore Ministry of Manpower

  • Monetary Authority of Singapore

  • Apple

  • Goldman Sachs

  • McKinsey

In addition, our students have gone on to graduate schools such as the London School of Economics, University College London, and the Yale School of Management.

 

Requirements for a Major in Economics

The Economics major requires students to complete 54 Units including a capstone project that is worth 10 Unit. The rest of the 44 Unit are obtained through coursework that must include one gateway course, three required courses, and at least one advanced course as specified below. In addition to YSS1203 Principles of Economics, at most one other course at the 1000 level can be counted towards the 44 Unit requirement.

 

Gateway Course

YSS1203 Principles of Economics:this course is designed to serve as an introduction to economics for prospective majors as well as for non-majors interested in economics.

Preclusions: If a student has completed A-level Mathematics AND A-level Economics (or equivalent courses in high school), then the student is not allowed to take Principles of Economics.

Note: Students who do not take Principles of Economics (either because they are precluded by or because they have done A-level (equivalent) Mathematics and prefer to enrol in Intermediate Microeconomics) must take an additional Economics elective to fulfil the 44 Unit requirement.

 

Required Courses

  • YSS2211 Econometrics

  • YSS2214 Intermediate Macroeconomics

  • YSS2203 Intermediate Microeconomics

 

Advanced Courses (at least one of the following)

  • YSS3203 Behavioral Economics

  • YSS3207 Advanced Econometrics

  • YSS3248 Advanced Macroeconomics

  • YSS3208 Advanced Microeconomics

  • YSS3264 Bubbles, Crises, Crashes and Panics

  • YSS4227 Topics in Applied Econometrics

  • YSS4258 Asset Pricing, Financial Markets & Behavioral Finance

 

Capstone

  • YSS4104 Capstone I

  • YSS4104 Capstone II

 

Elective Courses

Economics offers electives in two categories: Applied Economics and Core Courses. These categories reflect the nature of the courses that fall within them. Applied Economics courses apply the insights of data analysis and economic theory to a wide range of topics.

Core Courses are more theoretical – and thereby, more mathematical – in their orientation. Students who wish to pursue a Master’s and PhD in Economics are highly encouraged to take these courses.

In addition to gateway and required courses, students must choose a sufficient number of elective courses to satisfy the 44 Unit requirement. It is not necessary that all these courses belong to one category or another.

What is more important is that any particular combination of courses should prepare students for their capstone and their career ambitions. Students are highly encouraged to discuss their respective choices with their faculty advisors and the Head of Studies.

Generally, elective courses have one or more of the required courses above as prerequisites. Therefore, it is highly advisable that students in the major complete the three required courses early in their undergraduate studies.

Please check with the course instructor regarding the specific prerequisites before signing up for any elective course.

 

Economics Minor

Students who wish to minor in Economics are required to complete five full semester Economics courses including:

  • Principles of Economics

  • Intermediate Microeconomics

  • Intermediate Macroeconomics

  • Econometrics

  • The fifth course may include any other course in the Economics major

 

Students who do not take Principles of Economics because they:

(1) are precluded from that course or
(2) have done A-level (equivalent) Mathematics and prefer to enrol in Intermediate Microeconomics must take another economics course to fulfil the five-course requirement of the Economics minor.

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