UCLA Economics Major Requirements

Pre-Major Requirements

• Complete all pre-major courses with a 2.5 minimum GPA and a “C” or higher in each course. Note that your grade in the

Writing II course is not calculated into your pre-major GPA, however, you must earn a minimum grade of “C” in it.

• Each pre-major and major course must be taken for a letter grade.

• Grades in pre-major courses that were not completed at UCLA will still be calculated into your pre-major GPA as four

quarter units each. They are not included in your official UCLA GPA unless you took the courses at another UC campus or

while studying abroad through UCEAP.

• Non-transfer students must complete the pre-major and apply before exceeding 135 units in order to be eligible for the

Economics major. (AP and other units earned prior to first entering UCLA can be unofficially excluded if they bring your total

over 135.)

• Transfer students must complete the pre-major and apply no later than after their third regular quarter at UCLA. Summer

Session courses completed prior to a transfer student’s first official fall quarter will not be included in the three quarter

maximum.

• You should apply for the major the quarter after you complete the pre-major courses by filling out our change of major

request form that can be found on our website: https://economics.ucla.edu/undergraduate/. Please submit the form to the

Economics undergraduate counselors. Make sure that all of your grades have officially posted on your Degree Audit Report

(DAR) when you apply for the major.

Pre-Major Courses

Grade

Math 31A or 31AL

Math 31B

Economics 1

Economics 2

Economics 11

Economics 41

Any College Writing II

Course

Major Courses

Grade

Economics 101

(C- or higher)

Economics 102

(C- or higher)

Economics 103 / 103L

(C- or higher)

Economics 104 / 104L

(C– or higher)

Economics Elective

Economics or

Management Elective

Economics or

Management Elective

UCLA Economics Major Requirements

Pre-major GPA

(excluding Writing II)

2.5 min.

Cumulative UCLA

GPA

2.0 min.

Deadline to Apply

135 units

(excluding pre

-UCLA units)

for non-

transfers or

3 quarters for

transfers

Major GPA

2.0 min.

Cumulative

UCLA GPA

2.0 min.

Minimum C or higher

UCLA Economics Major Requirements

Pre-Major Requirements (continued)

• You must be in good standing at UCLA (2.0 minimum cumulative UCLA GPA and not on Probation or Subject to

Dismissal) at the time you apply in order to be officially admitted to the major.

• Your upper division major GPA must be a 2.0 minimum and you must have earned a “C–” minimum in Economics

101, 102, 103/103, and/or 104/104L if you have completed any of these courses prior to applying for the major.

• You can apply for the Economics major whether your pre-major is Pre-Economics or Pre-Business Economics.

• You are permitted to enroll in most upper division Economics courses prior to being admitted to the major provided

you have completed the prerequisites. Most upper division Economics courses require completion of at least

Economics 101. Many also require completion of Economics 102 and/or Economics 103/103L.

• Prerequisites for all Department of Economics courses are strictly enforced.

• No PTE numbers are issued. If you cannot enroll in a course for which you think that you have satisfied the

prerequisites and enrollment rules, please contact the Economics Undergraduate Counseling Office through the

Message Center.

• Please make sure that you have added yourself to our Department of Economics listserv to be notified of enrollment

rules, requirement updates, the Business Economics application, and Departmental notices. To add yourself, please

visit the link below:

https://moodle2.sscnet.ucla.edu/course/view/Econ-Counseling

• You are subject to any requirement changes in both the pre-major and the major until you are officially admitted to

the major.

Major Requirements

• Economics 11, 101, and 102 must be taken in sequence although they do not need to be taken in successive

quarters. We do recommend that you take Economics 11 and 101 back to back as they are two halves of the same

course.

• Economics 41, 103/103L, and 104/104L must be taken in sequence. Given that they build upon one another, we

recommend that you take them back to back, if possible; however, it is not required that you take them in successive

quarters.

• Economics 101, 102, 103/103L, and 104/104L need to be completed with a minimum grade of a “C-” in each

course.

• Economics 104/104L is required of all students admitted to UCLA for Fall 2020 or later. Pre-Fall 2020 UCLA admits

who declare Economics or Business Economics after Fall 2020, but who complete Economics 103/103L by Spring

2021, will not be required to take Economics 104/104L.

• The minimum grade required to satisfy an Upper Division Economics Elective is “D-” through Fall 2020. Effective

Winter 2021, a minimum grade of “D” will be required to satisfy an Upper Division Economics Elective. Upper

Division Economics Electives are courses numbered 106 through 199A and are worth four or five units. One and two

-unit courses such as Economics 185 and 195A do not apply towards Economics or Business Economics.

• You have the option to substitute one or two upper division Economics Electives with one or two upper division

Management courses from the following list: 120A, 120B, 122, 127A,130A, and 170 (formerly Mgmt 180/Real Estate

Finance and Investments).

• You must complete your upper division major courses with a 2.0 minimum GPA. You must also earn a 2.0 minimum

UCLA GPA.