This programme meets the increasing demand from industry, the professions and public bodies for informed and talented graduates who can apply skill and imagination to real world problems. As a graduate you will emerge with an excellent, professional training in economics allied with advanced technical and quantitative skills that you can readily apply to a host of social science concepts and problems. Many economic concepts are quantifiable. So it’s natural to construct models in terms of well-defined relationships between such variables, and to analyse the properties of these models by mathematical and statistical methods. Such analysis can throw much light on the realism of a model, but the adequacy of a model in describing phenomena can be tested more precisely by the explicit statistical measurement (with observed data) of the relationships implied by the model. Our aim is to equip you with specific skills in economics, but also generic skills that can be applied right across the job spectrum, such as analytical and data analysis. You’ll be taught using a combination of lectures and tutorials with lecturers using innovative teaching techniques where possible. A degree in Economics provides the skills required for a very wide range of careers. These skills are useful in the financial sector, general commerce, public sector, journalism and education to name but a few. Many employers will value the training that an Economics degree provides. The University of Birmingham is known to produce high quality graduates, therefore students are in high demand when they have completed their study.