FAQs

Once you have registered for your classes you will be able to see the locations on your schedule. Typically, your first-year classes will be on main campus while your upper-level classes in your final years will be at other various locations. You can find all building locations on the Aggie Map.

You will meet with an Economics advisor on Day 2 of your New Student Conference. After class begins you may then schedule additional individual appointments with an advisor. Please do not schedule an appointment prior to your NSC.

You will register with other newly admitted ECON students and the academic advisors. In addition to us adhering to FERPA requirements - there is not enough room for additional people in the computer lab and it is your time to start your academic journey on your own.

The main difference between Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science (BS) is that BA requires 14 hours of foreign language and BS requires additional mathematics components (ACCT 210 and ECMT 463). BA students will not take ECMT 463 but will instead use an ECON elective for a writing intensive course and will not take ACCT 210. BA students take 13 hours of general electives while BS students take 21 hours.

Email an Economics advisor from your official Texas A&M University email account with your UIN and request to change.

You do not need a business degree to be successful in business. Many of our students from the Department of Economics are hired by the same companies that recruit at the Mays Business School career fair at a higher salary. You can and will be successful as an ECON major.

Please contact Mays Business School on what is required to change majors. The Department of Economics advisors cannot advise you on how to change your major.

The degree evaluation is a tool in Howdy that shows what courses you have completed and what you have left. The degree planner has a degree evaluation in it, but allows you to plan your remaining courses through graduation.