Economics with a Year in Business

About this course

Economics equips you to understand one of the most consequential questions in public life: how scarce resources are allocated, who benefits and who does not, and what happens when governments, firms and individuals make different kinds of decisions. It combines the rigour of formal modelling with empirical investigation of real-world markets, institutions and policies, developing a distinctive way of thinking that is analytically demanding and practically valuable. A year embedded in a business context deepens that value considerably, connecting academic frameworks to the operational realities organisations face. At Royal Holloway, University of London, you will study economics over four years, with one of those years spent in a business placement. That year gives you direct experience of how economic reasoning is applied in commercial, financial or public-sector environments, and it st

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 52% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

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• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 15% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 23% of graduatescards →

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