Economics and business coursework by undergraduate students: Findings from Baccalaureate and Beyond transcripts

ABSTRACT

The Baccalaureate and Beyond study from the National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education contains a nationally representative set of transcript data from colleges and university graduates in the 2007–2008 academic year, the latest year for which such data are available. The authors use the transcript data to analyze undergraduate coursework in economics, business, and a few related subjects (statistics and calculus). The coursework results are presented for economics, business, and a wide range of other majors in the undergraduate curriculum.

KEYWORDS:

• Baccalaureate and Beyond
• business majors
• college courses
• economics majors
• undergraduate coursework

JEL codes:

• A2
• A22