Economics

About this course

Economics offers one of the most powerful frameworks available for understanding how the world works. It examines how individuals and organisations make decisions under scarcity, how markets allocate resources, how governments can improve or distort outcomes, and how economies grow, fluctuate and develop over time. It combines theoretical rigour with empirical analysis, using mathematical and statistical tools to test ideas against real-world data and to address questions of genuine importance: inequality, unemployment, trade, monetary policy and the long-run determinants of prosperity. At the University of Sheffield, this three-year full-time degree gives you a broad and rigorous grounding in economic theory and method, building from the foundations of microeconomics and macroeconomics toward increasing specialisation in areas that matter to you. The programme is deliberately applied i

Where its graduates go

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

• 72 / 100Information Technology Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 15% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 30% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 25% of graduatescards →

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