Economics and Data Science The University of Manchester

Overview

The global demand for economics graduates with advanced data science skills continues to grow rapidly in the modern economy. Public and private sector organisations are increasingly relying on data science to offer new insights on issues in economics, econometrics, and finance. 

At the same time, governments and central banks use data science techniques to inform the formulation and evaluation of economic policy.

• Economic theory;

• Econometric methods;

• Data science and machine learning;

• Programming and other data science skills.

• Financial econometrics;

• Healthcare economics;

• Economics of environmental policy.

Career opportunities

The growing awareness of the gains from analysing big data has led to increasing demand from employers for recruits with data science skills. This course is designed to prepare you for employment as an economic data analyst in government, central banks or the private sector, among other exciting and lucrative careers.

• finance and banking;

• local and central government and policy-making;

• business, management, and consultancy;

• the UK Civil Service: the Government Economic Service, the Bank of England, the Department for International Development, the Home Office, the Foreign Office, etc.

• Big city firms like KMPG, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, United Assurance, HSBC, Prudential plc, Nationwide Building Society, Deutsche Bank and the Co-Op.

• Large industrial companies such as Ford, Rolls Royce, British Telecom and BP.