Graduate Outcomes
Graduate Outcomes
Read our Graduate Destinations Report 2023 to find out how the 2022-23 Undergraduate Economics cohort have progressed with their careers since graduating.
95% of UK full-time first-degree Economics undergraduates were in graduate level work, graduate level study or both within 15 months of successful course completion from Warwick in 2021/22*, according to the Graduate Outcomes Survey published in July 2024. The response rate was 68%.
£41K was the median salary of this cohort of students whose main employment was full-time work in the UK.
89% of Postgraduate Taught Economics graduates went on to graduate level work, graduate level study or both within 15 months of successful course completion from Warwick in 2021/22*, published in July 2024. The response rate was 24%.
£35K was the median salary of this cohort of students whose main employment was full-time work in the UK.
Graduate Jobs
Warwick Economics undergraduates choose to work for a variety of employers in the private and public sectors. Typically they are entering jobs in banking (including investment banking and central banking), consultancy (both strategic and economic consultancy), energy companies, Fast Moving Consumer Goods companies (FMCGs), government departments, global information providers, insurance companies, professional services firms, technology organisations and teaching. Example of employers our former students chose to work for are listed below (data collected in July-October 2021 by the Department of Economics).
- Accenture
- Credit Suisse
- FTI Consulting
- Nomura
- AIG
- Deloitte
- HSBC
- Ocado
- HSBC
- Department of Health & Social Care
- J.P. Morgan
- Pwc
- Citibank
- Dyson
The most typical roles our students enter after graduation include the words 'analyst', 'associate' and 'consultant' within their job title.
There are also other roles represented by this word cloud which has been created from the job titles data from the data collected by the Department in July-October 2021, where the size of the word in the cloud represents the frequency it appears in this data set.
Further Study
Further study is also a popular option and our 2021 survey of Economics graduates (data collected between July-October 2021 by the Department of Economics) revealed that 36% of respondents embarked on further study.
The word cloud (right) we produced reveals the most common titles of the postgraduate courses our students embarked on following their graduation from Warwick.
Read advice from alumni who have pursued further study in the UK after graduation.
Further study advice