This three-year (full-time) course is the leading undergraduate economics degree in Australia and has produced outstanding graduates including the current Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
The program will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the overall context of business and government, and the high-level technical skills to analyse economic and social data and events. It will equip you with key capabilities to develop economic and social policy for those who want to work in fields such as financial markets, business, banking, and consulting in both the private and public sectors.
This specialist program will provide you with an excellent grounding in economic theory and business statistics and will allow you to complete a major in economics, financial economics or the more statistically based econometrics. You can also combine your study with additional majors and electives in any area of arts and social sciences, the University of Sydney Business School or from one of the many faculties throughout the University.
Central to the strength of economics at the University of Sydney is the large undergraduate honours program and its two key elements: an applied economics focus and expert training in economic theory and econometrics.
Graduates go on from our distinguished honours program to pursue research degrees and take up specialist positions in Treasury, the Reserve Bank of Australia, other policy department roles within federal and state governments, central banks and international agencies, financial markets and financial institutions.
Key features:
You will study an internationally renowned degree that will give you a strong foundation for understanding and tackling economic issues of domestic and international significance.
You will receive a versatile and relevant professional qualification, which will provide you with strong credentials for work in challenging fields, such as economic research, consulting and analysis.
You will gain a solid grounding in quantitative techniques and econometrics, which will equip you with the expertise to create strategic solutions for business and government policy.
You will graduate with strong credentials for many specialist areas, such as: economic and social research; consulting; business; business strategy; international trade; analysis of financial and commodity markets.
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Each box represents one 6 credit point unit of study. This diagram is a sample structure only, and is based on the primary major being Economics and a standard full-time progression over 3 years.
Core units of study and semester offerings are subject to change.
