Politics and Economics

About this course

Politics and economics is a pairing that reflects the deep and inescapable relationship between the two disciplines. Economic policy is made by political actors; political processes are shaped by economic interests and conditions. The great questions of our time, how to respond to climate change, how to organise global trade, how to address inequality, how to govern financial systems, require understanding both the political processes through which decisions are made and the economic frameworks that analyse their consequences. Studying both together produces a genuinely integrated understanding of how societies work. At the School of Oriental and African Studies, this programme has a distinctive character shaped by SOAS's particular expertise in the global South and in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Where many politics and economics degrees focus primarily on Western liberal democrac

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 69% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 72 / 100Information Technology Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 29% of graduatescards →

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