Economics~ Behaviour and Data Science with a Placement Year

About this course

Economics, behaviour, and data science is a forward-looking combination that brings together the rigorous economic analysis of how markets and agents make decisions with the methods of behavioural economics, which investigates how people actually behave rather than how traditional models assume they do, and the data science tools that allow both sets of questions to be investigated with increasing precision and at large scale. As organisations from government departments to technology platforms come to rely more heavily on behavioural insights and large-scale data analysis to understand and shape human behaviour, the demand for graduates who can work fluently across these three fields has grown substantially. At the University of East Anglia, this four-year full-time programme with a placement year integrates theoretical study with an extended period of professional experience. The plac

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 72% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 72 / 100Information Technology Professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 68 / 100Customer service occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 6% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 25% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 21% of graduatescards →

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