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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Economics - Financial Economics (BS) Academic Degree Map

Location(s): Manhattan Campus


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The curriculum for this major assumes students enter college prepared to take Calculus.

     
First Year Hours K-State Core  
Semester 1      
ECON 110   - Principles of Macroeconomics   3   KSC 050  
MATH 205   - General Calculus   3   KSC 030  
DAS 101   - Discover, Create, and Thrive: Arts and Sciences Orientation   1      
English Requirement 3 KSC 010  
Communications Requirement 3 KSC 020  
Total Credits: 13      
       
Semester 2      
ECON 120   - Principles of Microeconomics   3      
English Requirement 3 KSC 010  
Intro to Stats: STAT 225 , STAT 240 , STAT 250 , STAT 510 , STAT 610 , STAT 703   3    
Natural and Physical Sciences Requirement 4 KSC 040  
Arts and Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Total Credits: 16      
       
Second Year      
Semester 1      
ECON 510   - Intermediate Macroeconomics   3      
ACCTG 231   - Introduction to Managerial Accounting   3      
Advanced Stats: STAT 351 , STAT 611 , STAT 705   3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
Arts and Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
ECON 520   - Intermediate Microeconomics  OR 3      
ECON 521   - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory   3    
Outside Concentration 3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
BS Natural Science 3    
Social and Behavioral Sciences Requirement 3 KSC 050  
Free Elective (ECON 401 recommended) 1    
Total Credits: 16      
       
Third Year      
Semester 1      
FINAN 450   - Principles of Finance   3      
Outside Concentration 3    
BS Fine Arts or Humanities 3    
ECON Elective: ECON 530 ECON 630 , ECON 684 , ECON 590 , or FINAN 520   3    
ECON Elective: ECON 530 ECON 630 , ECON 684 , ECON 590 , or FINAN 520 ​  3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
PHILO 135   -Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy   3      
ECON Elective: ECON 530 ECON 630 , ECON 684 , ECON 590 , or FINAN 520 ​  3    
ECON Elective: ECON 530 , ECON 605 , ECON 630 , ECON 640 , ECON 681 ECON 684 , ECON 590 , or FINAN 520  3    
US Multicultural Overlay 3    
Outside Concentration 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
ECON 681   -International Trade   3      
Ethical Reasoning Overlay 3    
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
ECON 580   - Senior Seminar in Economics   3      
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Total Program Hours: 120      

 

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