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Spring 25 Coffee with Professors! Feb. 18-19
Economics Seminar Series Returns Friday Feb. 28
Undergraduate Economics Program to recieve STEM designation as of Fall 2025
Master in Economics @ The Beach!
Department of Economics
Why Major in Economics?
Economics prepares students for careers in business, government, law, and education. CSULB economics majors graduate with a valued skillset, are better prepared for graduate school, have flexibility in career opportunities, and are more likely to receive higher salaries than business and accounting degrees. Discover Careers in Economics!
Mission & Values
Mission Statement: Through teaching excellence, exceptional research, and meaningful service, we engage with students every day, striving to equip them with tools to imagine and achieve their own vision of a better future and society.
- Community Value: We aim to foster a community that creates equal opportunity and embraces diversity.
- Teaching Excellence Value: We strive to promote intellectual curiosity, diversity of perspectives, and critical thinking.
- Growth Value: We nurture students by encouraging self-discipline, perseverance, and the ambition to learn and improve our community and ourselves.
Our program encourages students to develop:
- Intellectual Growth
- Develop the ability to explain core economic terms, concepts, and theories.
- Demonstrate the ability to employ the “economic way of thinking.”
- Demonstrate awareness of global, historical, and institutional forces.
- Apply economic theories and concepts to contemporary social issues, as well as policy formulation and analysis.
- Recognize the role of ethical values in economic decisions
- Skills
- Apply both oral and written communication skills within the discipline.
- Demonstrate quantitative reasoning skills.
- Demonstrate the ability to collect, process, and interpret data, including statistical inference.
- Demonstrate computer proficiency in economics.
- Be able to use critical thinking skills within the discipline of economics about economic matters.
- Professional Development
- Develop an awareness of career choices for undergraduate economics majors, and the options for graduate study.
Join the Economics Student Association! Or get involved and create positive experiences and relationships at The Beach by participating in any of the following:
- Attend fun and interesting events with your peers by joining the Economics Student Association (ESA),
- Learn about the latest research from current P.h.D. candidates and other speakers with our Economic Seminar Series,
- Network with faculty and off-campus speakers with the Long Beach Economics Forum,
- Apply to our Student Employee positions: Instructional Student Assistants (ISA), Teaching Assistants (TA), or Graduate Assistants (GA),
- Run for a leadership position and learn valuable communication and team leadership skills.
