Category: Meet Our Students

Campus engagement has been a large part of my UTD experience, and it’s significantly more fun alongside a consistently engaged group of peers.

I was interested with economics for the first time my senior year of high school. That was the first time I ever got to interact with this subject. It intrigued me to learn about the importance of economics in all aspects of the world. It was quite fascinating to me.

I’ve enjoyed the flexibility the Economics major gives me, I was able to take upper level econ classes in my freshman year and get involved with more challenging topics early on which was exciting.

Be passionate about who you want to help. The rest will fall into place.

Never stop pursuing your goals with passion. If everyone else can do it, so can you!

I allowed myself to explore. It took calculus, psychology, sociology, economics, history, language, music, literature, and finally coding classes to finally have a full idea of what I wanted to do with my life, and I’m more certain now than ever.

I’ve always had an interest in politics and law throughout my life growing up. I enjoy reading articles on current events centering around those categories as well as on an international level, it helps having a much open-minded perspective of the world and what is going on.

I was interested in eventually working in policy, and economics seemed to me to be the foundation from which all effective policy was based. I felt that having a strong understanding of economics as well as the way economic policy could affect individuals would be invaluable in any policy area I would want to eventually work in.

I have always had a passion for finding solutions to social issues and socioeconomic inequity. The sociology program at UTD has created a pathway for me to not only better understand these issues but has also opened my eyes to solutions and progress.

The key to my success has been making sure to maintain a balance in my life. Everyone at this school is very focused and driven but being able to know when to stop studying and enjoy myself has helped me maintain my physical and mental health while still allowing me to achieve my academic goals.

As the Founder and Executive Director of a nonprofit, I was gaining a lot of experience in management. I was also becoming increasingly aware of the impact of the public sector, laws, and the economy on my clients. The importance of sectoral collaborations was also becoming evident. … Therefore, I decided to pursue this degree.

I came into UTD as an Economics major, and while I really enjoy all of econ classes I wanted to learn a wider variety of topics in college. I switched to International Political Economy at the end of my first semester, and now I am able to take classes that really interest me like Human Rights or Latin American History and have it count towards my major.