What can I do with a degree in Economics?
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Why Warwick?
- Our graduates are some of the most targeted by the UK’s top graduate employers (annual Graduate Market report produced by High Fliers Research)
- Warwick is consistently ranked in the top 10 of major university league tables (Times and Sunday Times; Guardian)
- Employment destinations of recent graduates*: discoveruni.gov.uk/
What do graduate recruiters look for?
- A good degree from a good university
- Work experience
- Involvement in extra-curricular activities
- The ability to describe and articulate your unique achievements and skills
How does Economics prepare students for the world of work?
The following skills are developed by our graduates during their studies:
- Abstraction
- Analysis of Incentives
- Analysis of Institutions
- Analysis of Optimisation
- Analytical Reasoning and Critical Thinking
- Analytical Thinking and Communication
- Applied Economics
- Creative and Strategic Thinking
- Economic Principles and Information
- Information Technology
- Policy Evaluation
- Problem Solving
- Quantitative Skills
- Research and Debating Skills
- Teamwork and Effective Communications
- Understanding Uncertainty
What do Economics graduates do?
Graduate Destinations
In 2022, the Department of Economics had 367 graduates across our three degree course programmes:
- BSc Economics
- BSc Economics and Industrial Organisation
- BSc/BA Economics, Politics and International Studies
Following graduation in July 2022, 219 (60%) of our graduates responded to our departmental destinations survey of which:
25%
went onto further study
74%
went onto employment
* 1% of graduates took a gap year
Top Geographical locations of our students after graduation
80%
United Kingdom
12%
Asia
8%
Rest of Europe
Sectors where graduates work
Employer sectors and job titles
Graduates who went onto employment worked in the following sectors:
47%
Finance
11%
Consultancy
8%
Technology
1%
Government
1%
Energy
6%
Other *
*6% of graduates went into other sectors including Law, Food, Media, Toy Production, Real Estate and Social Work
Financial Sector Destinations
Graduates who went onto employment in finance worked in the following areas:
44%
Accounting & Consultancy
27%
Investment Banking
19%
Investment and Fund Management
6%
Commercial Banking
4%
Central Bank
Sample financial sector employers include:
- accenture
- Bank of England
- BDO
- Citibank
- Cornerstone Research
- Credit Suisse
- Deloitte
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
- EY
- Goldman Sachs
- HSBC
- J.P. Morgan
- KPMG
- Lego
- Morgan Stanley
- NatWest
- Ocado
- Rothschild
- RBC Royal Bank
- PWC
- Santander
Further study
Top higher education destinations for further study include:
1. London School of Economics
2. University College London
3. Imperial College
4. University of Cambridge
5. University of Warwick
6. Bocconi University
7. National University of Singapore
8. Oxford University
9. Kings College London
10. University of Tokyo
What our graduates say
Economics graduates destinations
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Further study after graduation
Hear our students talk about their experiences of further study after graduation
Opportunities available at Warwick include:
Careers support from our professionally trained staff, opportunities to meet recruiters and attend events, help finding work experience and free careers support after graduation.
Derived from the HESA Graduate Outcomes survey, carried out approximately 15 months after successful completion. Contains HESA Data: Copyright Jisc 2024. Jisc cannot accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived by third parties from its data.
*Data was collected for this report from July 2022 - May 2023 by the Department of Economics.
discoveruni.gov.uk/ includes information from the national Graduate Outcomes survey, carried out approximately 15 months after graduates complete their course. For some career paths, graduates need to gain relevant experience, often at non-graduate level. It may therefore take some graduates longer than others to secure a graduate-level job.