Economics and Mathematics with professional placement or study abroad

Economics and mathematics is a combination that sits at the rigorous end of the social sciences, using the formal tools of mathematical analysis to build and test models of how markets, institutions, and individuals behave. Mathematics provides the precision and the analytical power, economics provides the questions and the empirical grounding. Together they form a degree that is intellectually demanding and opens a wide range of highly competitive career paths, particularly in finance, policy, data science, and research.

At the University of Bath, this four-year programme gives you the option of either a professional placement or a period of study abroad. Bath is well known for its placement record, and the structured professional year, which can be taken in a financial institution, government department, technology company, or economic research organisation, gives you the kind of applied experience that makes a significant difference in a competitive graduate market. The year abroad option, meanwhile, allows you to study at a partner university in another country, developing academic breadth and international perspective.

Across the programme you will study mathematics at a high level, covering areas such as real analysis, linear algebra, probability theory, and statistical inference, alongside core economics, including microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics. As you progress you will work with economic models that use mathematical techniques to analyse markets, decision-making under uncertainty, strategic interaction, and macroeconomic dynamics. The combination of the professional placement or study abroad option alongside the technical depth of the degree gives you both rigour and practical experience.

Graduates of economics and mathematics programmes are among the most sought-after in any year group, moving into investment banking, asset management, actuarial work, economic consultancy, central banking, government economic analysis, and data science. Academic research and postgraduate study in economics, finance, or mathematics are also well-trodden paths.