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Help for UCD Majors: Economics

Recent Davis graduates work for Fritz, Prudential, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Wells Fargo.  Many students obtain jobs in management training programs or in the marketing, sales, and accounting department of large firms or banks.  Others secure positions as stockbrokers or in insurance or real estate companies as planners, auditors, and appraisers.  In addition, many larger organizations (banks, consulting firms, etc.) have entire economic departments that deal with economic forecasting, analysis, and research.

Almost half of those students going directly into the work force upon graduation plan to attend a graduate business program later.  Since many firms will finance post-graduate education for their employees, such students may benefit financially as well as through experience by exploiting such opportunities.  Graduate education in economics is the gateway to top ranking jobs in the government sector, the economics departments of large firms, and the academic world.  Jobs in the academic world generally require the Ph.D. for college and university levels, and the M.A. for junior college levels.

The Master in Business Administration (MBA) program is the most popular form of graduate education for Economics majors.  A substantial number of Economics majors also enter Law Schools.  Other types of graduate programs such as Urban and Regional Planning, International Agricultural Development, Consumer Economics, and International Relations are also available to former Economics majors.

Below are some career ideas specific to the Economics Major:

  • American Economic Association (link words to http://www.aeaweb.org/)
  • National Association for Business Economics (link words to http://www.nabe.com/careers.htm)
  • Review occupational titles, alternate titles, description, tasks, and detailed work activities with economist (link the word economist to http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos055.htm#employment).  Links on this page: accountants and auditors; actuaries; budget analysis; financial analysts and personal financial advisors; financial managers; insurance underwriters; loan officers; and purchasing managers, buyers, and purchasing agents as well as management analysts and market survey researchers.

 

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Updated 01/16/08

 
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