Economics, Bachelor

The Bachelor of Economics features two majors: Economics and Financial Economics. Both provide rigorous training in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics, preparing students for professional roles.This program equips students to analyze economic problems using frameworks, draw reasoned conclusions, and communicate research to stakeholders. Graduates develop skills to evaluate domestic and global economic activities, pursuing careers as economists in government, business, consulting, analysis, and policy advising.

From your microeconomic studies you will learn about efficiency, markets, equilibrium, externalities, competition and cooperation. Your macroeconomic subjects will provide you with the frameworks to understand macroeconomic problems such as economic growth, productivity, inflation and labour markets. Students may select from a range of options including development economics, health economics, economic policy and game theory. Upon graduation students are equipped to pursue careers as a professional economist in either the public, private or not-for-profit sectors. In the public and not-for-profit sectors the opportunity exists to shape public policy and to pursue careers as economic analysts, and policy advisers. In the private sector opportunities exist in areas such as consulting, regulation, business analytics and finance.