Economics

About this course

Economics is the study of how societies allocate scarce resources and manage the trade-offs that scarcity creates. It addresses questions from the most local and immediate, how households decide to spend their money, how firms set prices, why wages differ across occupations, to the most global and consequential, what determines economic growth across nations, how financial crises arise and spread, and what policy instruments can stabilise an economy. At degree level, economics develops both the theoretical frameworks needed to construct arguments about how economies work and the quantitative methods needed to test those arguments against data. At King's College London this three-year full-time programme includes a year abroad and is taught across two departments, Political Economy and Economics at King's Business School, which gives you a particularly rich and multi-faceted approach to

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 95% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 72 / 100Information Technology Professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 40% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 20% of graduatescards →
• 38 / 100Quality and Regulatory Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →

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