Overview of the Program

The Summer Program in Economics is an intensive program designed to prepare prospective students wishing to pursue graduate studies in the field of Economics, Agricultural Economics and allied fields at the UPLB or in other universities abroad.

The Program began during the summer of 1977 under the auspices of the Department of Economics of the University of the Philippines Los Baños. It is conducted by a selected pool of faculty from the Department, the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, and the Institute of Statistics. The main purpose of the Program is to provide the students with a foundation on the rudiments of economic principles and its tools of analysis.