Economics

About this course

Economics is the study of how individuals, firms, and societies make decisions about scarce resources. It asks fundamental questions about why some countries are rich and others poor, how wages and prices are determined, what happens when markets fail, and how economic policy can be used to address unemployment, inflation, inequality, and environmental damage. It is a discipline that combines rigorous analytical thinking with real-world relevance, drawing on mathematics, statistics, and data analysis alongside theory and empirical research. At the University of Leicester, this three-year full-time programme gives you a thorough grounding in economic theory and its applications. You will study both microeconomics, examining how individuals and firms make decisions and how markets function, and macroeconomics, analysing the behaviour of economies as a whole, including growth, inflation, a

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 85% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 20% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 40% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 30 / 100Managers, directors and senior officials · 10% of graduatescards →
• 25 / 100Architects, Chartered Architectural Technologists, Planning Officers, Surveyors and Construction Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →

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