Career opportunities

We have a high success rate in the graduate employment market, with students going on to senior positions in industry, accountancy, finance, education, research, marketing, government service and the local and national media. Our final year programme, which offers a broad range of options in applied economics, business and finance, helps to give our graduates this competitive edge. The chart below shows a typical range of graduate career destinations.

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Exemptions from Professional Examinations

Modules passed as part of your Economics degree may entitle you to exemption from some professional examinations, for example in accounting or law. We co-operate with various professional bodies to ensure that our relevant modules conform to their exemption requirements.

Postgraduate Study

The Department offers an expanding postgraduate programme which includes: Pre-Masters Diploma in Economics, MSc Economics, MSc Financial Economics, MSc Banking and Finance, MSc Money and Banking, MSc Business Analysis and Finance, MSc Public Sector Economics, MRes Economics, and PhD Research degrees. These degrees offer an opportunity for graduates to persue further and more specialist studies before embarking on a career.