want to be an economist? do a physics degree! :D

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...Or I could do economics and then do an economics MSc. Thus spending 3 years of my time not doing physics. Sounds much better to me.

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Kentish Man

Well I guess you're just going to have to work your arse off to catch up then. Congrats on the offer. I guess you must have got a 1st?

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Drogue

edders

Just FYI, you people worrying about undergraduate economics, I got an offer a few days ago for UCL's economics MSc. And I'm graduating with a BSc in physics from Imperial this summer! So the moral of this story is: why spend 3 years studying economics when you can do a subject like maths/physics and still do an MSc in economics? I have the benefit of 3 years of physics knowledge and I'll still be equally qualified as an economist! :wink:

Well... yes, due to the maths, but you'll find it tough. The maths in grad-level theory isn't the hard part, the concepts are. And this is for people who've studied a couple of years of econ theory. I think you'll find it hard work, but then, as a physicist, I'm sure you're used to that :wink:

Econ is easier than maths/phys, which is why we tend to run most of the extra curricular societies at uni :biggrin:

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shady lane

..or do a degree in whatever you want, do a 1 year graduate diploma in economics, and then do an MSc/PhD in economics.

What a weird thread--as if more people want to study physics than economics, hah.

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Well done! Sounds awesome mate - but Physics from Imperial is pretty much the best you can get. I'm not sure a Physics degree from a lesser universities would let you in for Economics MSc.

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Drogue

edders

lol, at Imperial it's the physicists that run most of the societies. eg I run the debating soc! :wink:

Because you lack any social scientists to run them properly :p:

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boomboomboom

i personally would find any of the sciences very very very boring.

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edders

Just a lil' update: I got an offer from Cambridge last week, so will be going there. It's a diploma year to enter the MPhil afterwards, so I will have 2 years to make good on my lack of economics teaching. UCL might have been a bit too intense. :smile:

Congrats on the Cambridge offer! A Bsc Physics from Imperial + A MPhil from Cambridge will be very impressive on your CW.

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forpolarbears

Congrats

I have gotten the impression talking to a few professors that the more quantitative your undergraduate studies, the better, and I'm also the kind of person who loves studying lots of different things.

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Econometrician

megxers

Congrats

Obviously, in the US you need a degree in maths to study economics at postgrad.

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shady lane

Econometrician

Obviously, in the US you need a degree in maths to study economics at postgrad.

No you don't. I know several people doing MSc in Economics at LSE from the US with an undergrad in economics.

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shady lane

No you don't. I know several people doing MSc in Economics at LSE from the US with an undergrad in economics.

I think he meant doing a postgrad in economics in the US, not the UK.
But is that actually true? I thought an undergrad in econ would be very suitable for postgrad econ in both the UK and the US.

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not1

I would guess that for a US PhD programme, a BSc in joint econ + maths might be best (or a very mathsy econ programme, like UCL's). Not that I'm an expert. :smile:

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shady lane

Nope, I actually have 2 friends who did BA Economics at my uni and are now on Berkeley's PhD progam.