Economics degrees compared with official data
620 courses at 86 universities, every page shows entry standards, graduate earnings, satisfaction scores and fees.
Top Economics courses
Ordered by the arithmetic mean of the official measures published for each course, NSS satisfaction, graduate activity and continuation. Official data only; no commercial league-table input. Two of the three measures are published rounded to the nearest 5 percentage points, so courses are grouped into bands against the whole board instead of scored out of 10, and courses whose measures are identical are listed alphabetically.
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What Economics graduates earn
What Economics graduates actually earn, from real outcome data — 15 months, 3 years and 5 years after graduating.
National figures for Economics graduates — HESA Graduate Outcomes (15 months) and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset (3 & 5 years). These are national, not university-specific; actual pay varies by employer, region, role and experience. Different cohorts, so the bars are not one group over time.
Roles & employers
Where Economics graduates typically go.
Typical roles
- Economist
- Data analyst
- Financial analyst
- Policy adviser
- Actuarial analyst
Where they work
- Banks & consultancies
- Bank of England
- Government Economic Service
- Think tanks
Every university offering Economics
Course counts link to each university’s full profile.
- University of Glasgow (75)
- University of St Andrews (44)
- The University of Essex (24)
- Queen Mary University of London (24)
- Lancaster University (20)
- SOAS University of London (20)
- University of Aberdeen (19)
- University of Reading (15)
- The London School of Economics and Political Science (15)
- University of Strathclyde (14)
- University of Bristol (13)
- University of York (12)
- University of East Anglia (12)
- University of Warwick (12)
- University of Sussex (11)
- University of Bath (10)
- Liverpool Hope University (10)
- University of Southampton (10)
- UCL (10)
- Loughborough University (9)
- University of Edinburgh (9)
- University of Dundee (9)
- University of Manchester (8)
- University of Birmingham (8)
- Oxford Brookes University (8)
- The University of Surrey (8)
- The University of Liverpool (7)
- Swansea University (7)
- Keele University (7)
- University of Leeds (7)
- University of Derby (7)
- University of Nottingham (6)
- York St John University (6)
- Goldsmiths, University of London (6)
- Aberystwyth University (6)
- Bath Spa University (6)
- Royal Holloway, University of London (6)
- University of Stirling (5)
- University of Sheffield (5)
- University of Exeter (5)
- University of Leicester (5)
- Newcastle University (4)
- London South Bank University (4)
- University of Buckingham (4)
- University of Hull (4)
- The Open University (4)
- University of London (4)
- Birkbeck, University of London (4)
- Nottingham Trent University (3)
- Manchester Metropolitan University (3)
- University of Portsmouth (3)
- Roehampton University (3)
- Aston University (3)
- The University of Kent (3)
- Kingston University (3)
- Durham University (3)
- Oxford University (2)
- Cardiff Metropolitan University (2)
- Bangor University (2)
- UWE Bristol (2)
- University of Plymouth (2)
- Cardiff University (2)
- Brunel University of London (2)
- University of Hertfordshire (2)
- University of the Highlands and Islands (2)
- London Metropolitan University (2)
- University of Chester (2)
- Bournemouth University (2)
- Middlesex University (2)
- The University of East London (2)
- Coventry University (2)
- University of Northumbria at Newcastle (2)
- The University of Bradford (2)
- University of Cambridge (2)
- Heriot-Watt University (1)
- Birmingham City University (1)
- The University of Westminster (1)
- University of Brighton (1)
- University of Greenwich (1)
- Northeastern University London (1)
- Edge Hill University (1)
- University of Lincoln (1)
- Sheffield Hallam University (1)
- Ulster University (1)
- De Montfort University (1)
- University of Huddersfield (1)
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