Program Overview

Key Information

Duration

3 or 4 Years

Start of Programme

September 2025

Attendance Mode

Full-time

Location

Campus

Fees

• Home: £9,535
• International: £22,870

Entry Requirements

• AAA-AAB
• For joint degrees, the offer is based on the subject with the higher entry requirements
• Applicants without A level Maths (or equivalent) must have a minimum of grade B in GCSE Maths (or grade 6 in the new structure)
• Contextual: AAB-ABB

Course Overview

The BA Economics (two subject degree) combines economics with another discipline or language and takes 3 or 4 years depending on the subject involved. It provides you with a thorough grounding in economic principles while allowing you to create a specialist niche for yourself by studying another subject.

Why Study Economics and... at SOAS?

• SOAS is ranked top 30 in the UK for economics (QS World University Rankings 2025)

Combined Courses

• BA East Asian Studies and Economics
• BA Economics and Africa and Black Diaspora
• BA Economics and Africa and Black Diaspora including a year abroad
• BA Economics and Arabic (Year Abroad)
• BA Economics and Chinese
• BA Economics and Global Development
• BA History and Economics
• BA International Relations and Economics
• BA Japanese and Economics (Year Abroad)
• BA Korean and Economics (Year Abroad)
• BA Languages and Cultures and Economics
• BA Law and Economics
• BA Politics and Economics
• BA Social Anthropology and Economics

Teaching and Learning

Our teaching and learning approach is designed to support and encourage students in their own process of self-learning, and to develop their own critical grounds of the economics discipline.

Contact Hours

All full-time undergraduate programmes consist of 120 credits per year, in modules of 30 or 15 credits. They are taught over 10 or 20 weeks. The programme structure shows which modules are compulsory and which optional.

Modules

Teaching combines innovative use of audio-visual materials, practical exercises, group discussions and conventional lecturing. Modules are taught through a combination of lectures and tutorials, usually a two-hour lecture and an one-hour tutorial weekly. Tutorials are sessions in which students are expected to take lead in discussions and/or present reports or presentations or solve problem sets and applied exercises in quantitative modules. Assessment of most modules is through a combination of written examination and course works.

Learning Resources

SOAS Library is one of the world's most important academic libraries for the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, attracting scholars from all over the world. The Library houses over 1.2 million volumes, together with significant archival holdings, special collections and a growing network of electronic resources.

Fees and Funding

Fees for 2025/26 Entrants per Academic Year

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
• Barclays
• Bank of America
• Cabinet Office
• Deloitte
• Ernst & Young
• HM Treasury
• KPMG
• NHS England
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• HSBC
• National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
• UK Civil Service
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• University of Bayreuth
• HM Treasury
• Department for International Development
• PwC
• UNDP
• King’s Investment Fund
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• The World Bank
• EY
• British Chamber of Commerce
• Oxfam
• RBS

Research

Projects

• Viability of Capital Market Access for Developing Countries in the Context of Climate Vulnerability
• Call for papers for the Seventh Annual Conference of the Japan Economy Network
• Designing contextualised AMR awareness campaigns to promote transformational societal change
• Developing an ecological macroeconomic model for the Bank of Albania
• Climate risk and sustainable finance development in Thailand
• Business models
• Industrial policy
• Infrastructure development
• Restructuring of supply chains
• Critical minerals
• Energy transition
• Unlocking finance and managing climate risks for India’s transition to a resilient, Paris-aligned economy

Department of Economics

The Department of Economics at SOAS University London.

Staff

• Dr Angelos Diamantopoulos
  • Senior Lecturer in Economics
  • Microeconomic theory, Game theory, Information theory and Networks.