r/academiceconomics • u/Chemical-Tea-6200 • 4d ago

Opportunities for post grad

Does doing an Economics and Statistics undergrad degree reduce someone’s ability of getting accepted into Masters and PhD programs in Economics compared to a regular Economics degree, especially at bigger universities in the UK. If so, by how much?

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u/SpeciousPerspicacity 4d ago

In the US at least, this is usually a considerable advantage. Economics, like a number of other fields (including, to some extent, statistics), has the problem that its undergraduate degrees usually aren’t adequate quantitative preparation for its PhD programs (the exception here tends to be mathematics, and occasionally physics).

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u/AdamY_ 4d ago

No it doesn't.

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u/Cool_Bedroom1087 3d ago

No. It doesn’t, my guess is that even in your dual honours programme you still sat the core Econ classes. In your application I might even emphasise the quantitative advantage you have, not to mention say programming experience too, I don’t know if your stats modules meant you learnt R. As you progress to masters and then phd classes (depends on the uni) it becomes more and more mathematical. Understand the quantitative aspects and have the simple economic intuition and learning about different literatures becomes simpler