Undergraduate Courses in Economics

Please note that due to a higher than normal volume of inquiries and adjustments to the new TSS systems, it may take longer than the average 48-hour turnaround time for us to respond to your VAC message. We thank you for your patience and understanding.

The Department of Economics offers over 100 undergraduate courses throughout the academic year including core courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, operations research, and elective courses in various fields.  Information on our courses can be found in the corresponding pages on the left.  Should you have additional questions not covered by the information contained or resources listed on this Web site, please send a message through the Virtual Advising Center.

Equivalencies to courses outside of UC San Diego:
If you need to petition courses from another institution for UC San Diego course equivalency, download undergraduate student petitions from the TritonLink forms page and then follow instructions and submit on our petition platform. One petition per course.

Read about our course changes and updates here 

TENTATIVE Course offerings: 2026-27

If a professor (or STAFF) is listed in the term, the course is currently scheduled to be offered in that term. The number of names shown by each course, will indicate the number of classes we will be offering of that course in that quarter.  For example, in Winter 2027, there are two classes of ECON-003, taught by Rondina, so he is listed two times.

Please note that all course offerings are subject to change 

Note: there is a comprehensive list of elective courses sorted by interest here. Academic Senate approved Economic courses, with title, course descriptions and prerequisites are here.

All Department of Economics remote summer courses require in-person examination. No exceptions can be made.

Last updated: October 5, 2026

*The new TEA request system (formerly EASy) requires that all courses have an instructor name listed. This course does not yet have an instructor so we have entered the name of our Director of Instruction, Aram Grigoryan, to appear in the Schedule of Classes for the purposes of allowing TEA requests to be submitted for enrollment. When the correct instructor is identified, the Schedule of Classes will be updated. For any questions, please contact us in the VAC.