This dual degree combines core economic skills and an understanding of how economics shapes areas such as public policy, business and industry, with mathematics analytical and quantitative abilities in a single four-year program. In the Bachelor of Economics component, you can choose to study business, environmental and resource economics, economic policy, econometrics, financial markets, labour and health economics, international trade and development, macroeconomics and microeconomics. Modern computation, advances in scientific technology and the increasing production of data have all increased the scope for applications of mathematics. In the Bachelor of Mathematics, you'll develop either a comprehensive knowledge in a single field of mathematics, or a high level of sophistication in the applications of mathematics. Graduates with high-level quantitative and analytic skills, augmented with comprehensive economics training, play a key role at the forefront of new developments in fields from engineering and the physical sciences to economics, information technology, molecular biology, accounting, business information systems and finance.
This major will equip students to work as consultants and leaders for the private sector. Students will acquire the ability to apply advanced and cutting edge economic insights to analyse problems and create solutions. They will learn how to interpret, advise and lead in situations involving strategic competition between individuals, between teams, between businesses and between nations. They will understand new ways of collecting and interpreting data. The major will also provide students with an opportunity to learn behavioural economics insights regarding how people behave in the real world, and why this matters. Students will gain a deep and cutting edge knowledge of strategy and behaviour from an economic perspective. This will position them exceptionally well to play a leading part in the future direction of business, government and society.
