Economics

Economics is the study of how societies allocate scarce resources and manage the trade-offs that scarcity creates. It addresses questions from the most local and immediate, how households decide to spend their money, how firms set prices, why wages differ across occupations, to the most global and consequential, what determines economic growth across nations, how financial crises arise and spread, and what policy instruments can stabilise an economy. At degree level, economics develops both the theoretical frameworks needed to construct arguments about how economies work and the quantitative methods needed to test those arguments against data.

At King's College London this three-year full-time programme includes a year abroad and is taught across two departments, Political Economy and Economics at King's Business School, which gives you a particularly rich and multi-faceted approach to the subject. You will develop analytical and critical skills through modules in economic theory, statistics, mathematics, and econometrics, applying these tools to a range of problems in the economy, politics, and policy-making. King's location at the centre of London provides access to a city that is itself one of the world's major economic laboratories, with financial institutions, policy bodies, international organisations, and businesses of every kind within reach.

Economics graduates from King's are well prepared for careers in finance, investment banking, economic consultancy, public policy, government, international organisations, data science, and business management. The rigorous quantitative and analytical training the degree provides is also valued in technology, law, and any field where the ability to work with data and construct evidence-based arguments is central to professional practice. Many graduates also continue to postgraduate study in economics, financial economics, public policy, or related fields.