Economics

About this course

Economics is the discipline that seeks to understand how individuals, organisations, and societies make decisions about the allocation of scarce resources. It is a subject of vast scope, addressing questions that range from how a single firm sets its prices to how climate change should be priced into global agreements, from the causes of poverty to the design of healthcare systems. It is both a theoretical discipline and an empirical one, using mathematical models and data to generate insights that policy makers, businesses, and civil society organisations rely on. At Queen Mary University of London this four-year full-time programme develops your economic thinking across the full range of the discipline, from microeconomic theory and macroeconomic models to the applied economics of real contemporary challenges including inequality, climate change, population ageing, and the pressures o

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 70% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 72 / 100Information Technology Professionals · 1% of graduatescards →
• 68 / 100Customer service occupations · 1% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 12% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 7% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 49% of graduatescards →

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