Social Policy and Economics

About this course

Social policy and economics is a combination that brings together the analytical tools of economic science with the normative and practical concerns of social policy. Economics provides frameworks for understanding how resources are allocated, how markets behave, how incentives shape decision-making, and how to model complex social and economic systems quantitatively. Social policy examines how societies distribute resources and develop services to meet individual and collective needs, and addresses central questions about poverty, inequality of income, race, age and gender, social justice, housing, education, health and criminal justice. Studying them together allows you to bring rigour and evidence to the analysis of social challenges that purely descriptive approaches can miss. At the University of Strathclyde you will study social policy and economics over four years of full-time st

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 80% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 65 / 100Web and Multimedia Design Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 20% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 15% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 35% of graduatescards →

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