The Distinguished Majors Program

The Department of Economics offers an opportunity for economics majors with exceptional records to participate in a Distinguished Majors Program (DMP). The program is two semesters in length, with application and admission occurring during the spring semester of the student's third year. Applicants should have a strong overall academic record, with a cumulative grade point average in economics that is at least 3.6 at the time of application. Applications for students who will graduate in May 2009 are due Friday, March 21, 2008. Further information on applying can be found by clicking here.

The program will bring the best undergraduates together so they can learn from each other, enter the intellectual life of the Department of Economics, discover the nature of research in economics, and prepare to write a thesis. Specific requirements of the program include:

1. Each student must take Econometrics (ECON 472), either before entering the program or in the fall of the fourth year.
   
   
2. Each student must take the Distinguished Major Seminar (ECON 411) in the fall of the fourth year, which requires a substantial paper.
   
   
3. Each student will complete a DMP thesis (ECON 496), independent research under the supervision of an economics faculty member, due April 14, 2008.

In all, the program involves six credit hours by the fall (ECON 472 and 411) and three credit hours in the spring (ECON 496). Department recommendations for Distinction, High Distinction, and Highest Distinction will be based on:

1. quality of the thesis

2. overall work in the Distinguished Majors Program

3. overall work in economics, and

4. overall college record

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