Economics at Aberdeen provides a range of skills that will help you understand business and financial decisions, political processes, social reforms and international relations.

Economics graduates have a large range of employment opportunities open to them. Recent graduates have found employment as petroleum economists with the Alberta State Government (Canada) and ConocoPhillips; as economists with the World Bank and the Institute for International Economics (both in Washington DC), the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and Crown Agents (international development) in London; as accountants with Deloitte & Touche, Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, and KPMG; as finance professionals with Mobil North Sea (Ltd), Morgan Stanley, Newton Investment, Scottish Life, Scottish Provident and Royal Bank of Scotland.