Economics, BS
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.
What Makes USF Economics Different?
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.
Kendall Johnson '23
Be an advocate for change
I carry on USF’s mission by using my voice relentlessly in my work to advocate for disadvantaged and overburdened communities and the issues I care about."
Kendall Johnson '23
What’s It Like Inside a USF Econ Class?
Some lectures and lots of discussion. Small classes with professors who represent a broad spectrum of economic experience, so you learn economics from every angle and gain the skills to succeed in an ever-changing world. Your professor raises a topic — such as a tax bill or a potential trade war with China — and you and your classmates discuss the topic and apply economic principles to it.
TYLER MARCUM, ECONOMICS ’19
Project Manager at Salesforce, San Francisco
Why study economics?
I like looking at the laws of supply and demand to see how humans behave. I see the flow of goods and services. I see needs and wants. Demand gives producers an incentive to create. Demand can lift people out of poverty. To me, economics is a great way to quantify human progress.”
TYLER MARCUM, ECONOMICS ’19
Project Manager at Salesforce, San Francisco
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