Welcome to UCLA!
We are very happy to welcome our newly admitted students to UCLA and, in particular, to the Economics department. Congratulations! This page provides information for both our incoming freshmen and our incoming transfer students.
UCLA Bruin Day
We look forward to welcoming our newly admitted students each year at Bruin Day!
For the most up to date information regarding our majors, please view our Overview of Majors page.
First Year Students
Going to college is a big step in anyone’s life. Students join clubs and societies, make lifelong friendships, and learn about themselves and the world around them. In the Economics Department, we teach our students how to combine theory and data to understand the problems faced by consumers, firms, and countries.
The department offers three degrees (Economics, Business Economics, Mathematics/Economics) that are all based on the same underlying principles. You can find out more details about the Economics and the Business Economics majors on our website or by contacting the Economics undergraduate advisors. For information about and advising for the Mathematics/Economics major, it is best to contact the Mathematics undergraduate advisors. And here’s a general introduction to economics, and to our courses.
Transfer Students
Transfer students are an important part of our community, and the Economics Department strives to make the transition to UCLA as smooth as possible. The majority of our transfer students hope to graduate in two years, but the short time frame comes with some challenges. We are here to help transfer students get off to a good start and to benefit fully from the wide range of academic and co-curricular activities that UCLA has to offer.
Academic success is first and foremost in our minds. Transfer students will begin their work in the major with Econ 11 (Microeconomic Theory) and Econ 105 (Introduction to Mathematical Economics). Econ 105 is designed to be a user-friendly course that will support the development of the mathematical tools necessary to have strong performances in courses such as Econ 11 that leverage formal economic analysis to explore economic policy, business strategy and data analysis. Econ 105 is taken concurrently with Econ 11 to provide direct support in students’ success in Econ 11.
Econ 11 is a rigorous course which may be made more challenging by the transition from a semester system to a 10-week quarter. To help students succeed in this course and beyond, we have developed our Excellence in Economics, or EXEC program that provides additional academic support, dedicated discussion sections, and career training for our transfer students. The EXEC program is currently application-based. The application may be found here. For our Fall 2025 new transfer admits, the deadline to apply to the program is by Friday, August 29th at 11:59pm PDT.
Programs and Career Opportunities
There are a number of additional career-orientated activities and programs that our students may consider. These include:
*Please note, some of these programs may have an application deadline prior to the start of your junior year.
Once again — welcome to UCLA!
