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Intro to Microeconomics

  • • Earn 3 transferable credits
  • • 100% online and Zoom-free
  • • Includes everything you need

Available through dual enrollment at partner high schools

Benefits

  • COLLEGE CREDITS

    Earn 3 credits to save time + money on your degree

  • ENGAGING EXPERIENCE

    Top-rated instructors, interactive textbooks + cinematic lectures

  • IN YOUR HIGH SCHOOL

    The support + structure to thrive in your first college experience

  • Course
    Overview

    From the co-founder of MasterClass, Outlier’s groundbreaking Intro to Microeconomics will show you how small individual choices shape today’s complex economic systems.

    In this course, you’ll explore what goes down at the wild intersection of money and humanity. Experience for yourself how abstract concepts like supply and demand play out IRL in our high-stakes decision-making games. Play as a business leader and see firsthand how your choices ripple out and impact the big picture.

    From game theory to labor unions, and from monopoly to poverty, our 6 world-class instructors use fascinating real-world examples to bring Microeconomics to life.

  • Brilliant
    Instructors

    Meet our hand-picked team of charismatic economics instructors from Barnard, Columbia, and beyond. offering a variety of backgrounds and points of view, for a modern approach to a traditional topic. You’ll never see your world the same way again.

  • How It
    Works

    Enjoy cinematic video lessons (our CEO co-founded MasterClass).

    Enhance your learning with gorgeous interactive textbooks based on active learning principles.

  • Dedicated
    Support

    Hit a snag on the site? Have a burning question? We’ve got you covered.

    Our dedicated Student Success team is available to assist you—and push you—to help you pass with flying colors.

Transferable credits from a top 50 school

Most schools accept credits transferred from University of Pittsburgh

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Traditional course Outlier Intro to Microeconomics

Credits

Usually 3-4 credits from your school

Credits

3 transferable credits from the University of Pittsburgh

Format

In-person or Zoom

Format

Interactive and 100% online (Zoom-free)

Instructors

1 per class

Instructors

6 hand-picked instructors

Lectures

Specific time and place

Lectures

On-demand, anywhere

Exams

Specific hour

Exams

Flexible window

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What you’ll learn

This course covers all the basic principles and latest microeconomics topics you’ll need for college credit (and then some).

  • How to work smarter, not harder

  • How to use science to make life’s most important decisions, like whether to eat out or dine in

  • What did 2020 mean for the economy?

  • What was really behind the Industrial Revolution?

  • The underlying nature of the relationship between supply and demand

Hear from our alumni

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    Taija L.

    “My biggest takeaway from Outlier is that online classes can be fun, they can be engaging, and they can be everything that you get in an in-person class, as long as you have the right instructors.”

  • Connor H.

    Connor H.

    “I really loved Outlier because the instructors were passionate about what they taught, you had a great community, you had support wherever you needed it. The whole experience was so convenient and flexible.”

  • Erica S.

    Erica S.

    “Online learning is challenging, but I really enjoyed taking an Outlier course, and I appreciated how affordable and easy to navigate it was. I will be recommending Outlier to my friends.”

Frequently asked questions

  • Outlier by Savvas courses are offered through US highschools

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