Development Economics

TheDevelopment Economics programme offered at SOAS University of Londonis a research degree offered by the Department of Economics, and is also part of the PhD pathway, ‘International Development’, within the Bloomsbury Doctoral Training Partnership.

On the Development Economics programme offered at SOAS University of London there are Research Student Tutors with overall responsibility for research students, who are available for discussion of general problems. And the Departmental Empirical Support Committee (DESC) offers detailed and individual advice to students about fieldwork and empirical analysis as appropriate.

Employment

Economics graduates leave SOAS with a solid grounding in statistical skills and an ability to think laterally, take a global perspective, and employ critical reasoning.Recent graduates have been hired by:

• Bain & Co

• Bank of America

• Cabinet Office

• Deloitte

• Ernst & Young

• KPMG

• NHS England

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office

• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

• HSBC

Research key points:

• All research students are expected to attend a dedicated research student seminar. In addition, a separate programme of research training is offered for first-year students. The sessions will deal with theoretical and methodological issues in Economics and Development Economics, as well as subject-specific guidance on other generic research skills (such as literature reviews, fieldwork planning).

• In addition, students will attend a termly Development Economics research day, where there will be a mediated discussion of theoretical and methodological issues faced and an opportunity for students to present their own research. Students will also attend the general Research Students Seminar that provides a range of input for all stages in the completion of a PhD and Early Career Development for Development Economists.