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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Economics, B.S.


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The B.S. degree in economics offers more specialized training in economics and provides a firm basis for graduate study in business, economics or law. 

SMU Degree Requirements

An SMU undergraduate degree requires a minimum of 120 credit hours and must include completion of the University’s Common Curriculum , one major and a combination of electives and/or other majors or minors. Completion of certain majors requires more than 120 hours to finish the degree. The credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:

Requirements for the Major


Mathematics and Statistics (9 Credit Hours)


Econometrics (3 Credit Hours)


Total for the Major Only: 45 Credit Hours


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