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Economics is a marketable liberal arts degree.  Liberal arts majors (social sciences and humanities) develop excellent writing and research skills, and increase a student's knowledge of the world.  These majors also help students build a stronger and more informed sense of identity and values.  Economics at USM also provides students critical thinking and analytical (including statistical) skills.

One of the biggest concerns students have is life after graduation.  An economics degree is a solid foundation for many careers, and for graduate school.  Our graduates have, for example, found jobs at Bath Iron Works (finance department), the Maine Legislature (Senate Majority Leader's staff), the Maine Department of Labor (data analysts), and Wharton Econometrics.

Our graduates have also gone on to Master's and Doctoral programs at Cornell, University of California-Riverside, University of California-Santa Cruz, Notre Dame, University of Denver, and USM's Muskie School.  Several have completed Economics Ph.Ds. (Students considering graduate school need to maintain a high grade-point average.  A high GPA is essential to having broad choice in picking particular graduate schools and programs.)


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