Course summary

Address the role financial markets play in today's profound issues - poverty and development, environmental protection, and financial and monetary crises. Use mathematical and statistical models to make economic forecasts, and gain advanced theoretical knowledge and invaluable statistical skills. Overview Economics is everywhere - it's at the core of many societal and global issues, with financial markets playing a fundamental coordinating role. Study our most advanced economics degree and gain the statistical and mathematical tools to connect economic theory to real-life data. Boost your employability and ability to affect the world around you - recent graduates have gone on to work for the Government Economic Service, HMRC, Citibank, Barclays, PwC and more. Reasons to study Economics and Econometrics at Kent

• Collaborate with inspiring lecturers who advise UK, European and international organisations.

• Apply your academic skills and gain invaluable experience by taking a Year in Industry.

• Study in our new Kennedy building, home to our economics community, with excellent facilities.

• Shape your degree outside the classroom with our thriving student-led societies. Kent Invest focuses on financial markets holding an annual trading competition. The Economics Society explores issues of the moment through the lens of the discipline, culminating in an annual networking conference.

• Access support through our employability team, regular workshops and alumni talks, as well as our dedicated academic adviser and peer mentoring scheme.