Economics and Geography

Economics and geography address overlapping questions from different disciplinary perspectives. Economics asks how resources are allocated, how markets work, and how the behaviour of individuals and institutions produces aggregate outcomes for prosperity, inequality, and growth. Geography situates these economic processes in space, asking how location, environment, and physical infrastructure shape economic activity, and how the Earth's human and natural systems interact.

At the University of Aberdeen, this four-year full-time programme adds to your thorough grounding in the global economy and how it operates by setting it in the context of geography, the Earth, human relationships with the environment, and much more. You will study microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, and economic theory alongside physical and human geography, environmental systems, and the spatial dimensions of development and trade. The combination trains you to think about economic questions geographically and geographical questions economically, which is a genuinely useful intellectual position in a world where climate change, resource distribution, and spatial inequality are central economic concerns.

The programme includes a year abroad, which places you in a different academic and cultural environment and broadens your perspective on how economics and geography are taught and applied internationally. The typical entry tariff is 152 UCAS points.

Graduates from economics and geography programmes go on to careers in finance, economic policy, environmental economics, urban planning, international development, consultancy, the civil service, and data analysis. The combination of quantitative economic skills and geographical breadth is valued across a wide range of organisations. Further study options include postgraduate degrees in economics, environmental economics, urban planning, and development studies.