Economics (and Psychology) senior Premma Mehta was recently profiled in the University Record as part of their 2025 Senior Profiles series! The article discusses her dual loves of her majors, as well as her general experience at U of M. Congratulations to Premma! The following is a short excerpt from the article, which can be found in full here:
"Mehta was introduced to the two social sciences at her small international high school in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where Mehta’s family moved from London when she was 7. Mehta took every Advanced Placement class she could, and micro/macroeconomics and psychology became her favorites, largely because they enabled her to study why people do what they do.
'Psychology allows you to look at how individuals behave in certain situations, and so does econ, just applied to a market or business scenario,' Mehta said.
She became so enamored with the two subjects, she decided to focus on both at the college level, a decision she said was validated when a guest speaker in one of her first U-M classes described economics as 'psychology’s boyfriend.'"
