About Economics Students

As an economics student, you will find yourself saddled with a dizzying array of challenging, fascinating duties. You’ll conduct research, monitor economic trends, collect and analyze data, and study how society manages and distributes such resources as labor, land, raw materials, and machinery in order to produce goods and services. Because these tasks – along with various others – will fall to you, you must have a knack not only for analyzing large amounts of data, but for digesting this data for communication as well.

Should you embark upon a course of study in economics, you can expect to find work in a number of different sectors. Private industry employs roughly half of all economics graduates, who work in such fields as research and development, science and technology, banks and securities, business, and politics. Many economics graduates also find work with various government agencies.