Undergraduate Degrees

Economics

MA, Single Honours

Economics at Aberdeen helps you understand the global economy and the factors that influence income, wealth, and wellbeing from both social and financial perspectives. You will gain a thorough understanding of economic theories and explore how they function in the real world, acquiring skills that are attractive to top graduate employers.

A degree that fits you. The degree programmes offered through the Business School are designed to be flexible. Specialise in one area, explore new subjects, or study multiple disciplines to attain a degree that suits your interests and career aspirations.

Economics and French (5 years)

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and French at Aberdeen is a great combination to widen your solid grounding in the global economy and topical economic challenges and issues – giving you the strong competitive advantage of a modern European language, cultural perspective and experience, with a fast track to a career in European and international organisations and business.

Economics and Mathematics

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and Mathematics at Aberdeen gets to grips with the global economy, exploring the many factors that influence wealth from a social and financial perspective, with the added advantage of the highly-developed critical skills in logical and analytical thinking which employers seek today. This programme will help set you apart as an outstanding candidate with potential to go right to the top in whichever sector you choose.

Economics and French

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and French at Aberdeen is a great combination to widen your solid grounding in the global economy and topical economic challenges and issues – giving you the strong competitive advantage of a modern European language, cultural perspective and experience to help fast track you to a career in European and international organisations and business.

Economics and International Relations

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and International Relations at Aberdeen is a great subject combination to set your thorough grounding in the global economy and how it operates, within the context of the complex and constantly changing relationships between nations. You will be taught by leading international experts who will keep you at the forefront of contemporary debate and a sought-after graduate across a range of career options.

Economics and Politics

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and Politics at Aberdeen is a great subject combination which gives you thorough grounding in the global economy and the many factors that influence wealth from a social and financial perspective. The programme focuses on the role of politics, different political systems and how democracy interacts and influences economies. You will be ideally suited to a career in politics, media or business and with skills transferable to many other sectors of employment.

Economics and Psychology

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and Psychology at Aberdeen is a great subject combination which gives you thorough grounding in the global economy and the many factors that influence wealth from a social and financial perspective. This programme offers an in-depth examination of the influence of psychology and how we as humans think and behave. You will gain a set of specialist and transferable skills to open up career options across the spectrum of sectors and roles involving ‘people’.

Economics and History

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and History at Aberdeen adds to your thorough grounding in the global economy and how it operates by setting it in the context of human history and economic activity through the ages, at a university steeped in 500 years of history, with fabulous collections of historic treasures. You will gain the business and intellectual skills to open up a wide spectrum of career opportunities.

Economics and Geography

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and Geography at Aberdeen adds to your thorough grounding in the global economy and how it operates by setting it in the context of geography, the Earth, human relationship with the Earth, the environment and much more.

Economics and German (5 years)

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and German at Aberdeen is a great combination to widen your solid grounding in the global economy and topical economic challenges and issues – giving you the strong competitive advantage of a modern European language, cultural perspective and experience, with a fast track to a career in European and international organisations and business.

Economics and Legal Studies

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and Legal Studies at Aberdeen is a great combination, adding to your solid grounding in economics, business, management and organisations with a deeper focus on the legal framework within which businesses of all sizes operate. You will gain highly developed analytical and intellectual skills to add to your knowledge of how the global economy works and a head start for a career in international business or many other options.

Economics and Gaelic Studies

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and Gaelic at Aberdeen adds to your thorough grounding in the global economy and how it works with an in-depth study of Gaelic, Scotland’s oldest living language and its origins and culture. The language, intellectual skills and Scottish perspective you will develop – combined with your strong business and economic skills – will give you an extra advantage for your career in business or another sector, especially with a Scottish or international dimension.

Economics and Sociology

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and Sociology is a perfect partnership to add to your thorough grounding in the global economy and the many factors that influence wealth from a social and financial perspective, with a deeper exploration of what society means and how it shapes us as individuals in all sorts of ways.

Top-rated teaching and a culture of dynamic research and excellent transferable skills will ensure you are a sought-after graduate by employers in many sectors.

Economics and German

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and German at Aberdeen is a great combination to widen your solid grounding in the global economy and topical economic challenges and issues – giving you the strong competitive advantage of a modern European language, cultural perspective and experience, with a fast track to a career in European and international organisations and business.

Economics and Philosophy

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and Philosophy at Aberdeen gets to grips with the global economy, exploring the many factors that influence wealth from a social and financial perspective – and which raises issues and questions to which philosophy seeks to find answers. Combined with your economics and business knowledge, the intellectual skills you will develop and their transferability will make you a very attractive graduate with very wide career options, including in business.

Economics and Finance

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and Finance at Aberdeen is a brilliant subject combination and springboard to an exciting career in international business and finance. Economics gets to grips with the global economy and what influences the wealth of nations and Finance adds a powerful understanding of the principles and practice of finance, giving you all-round business skills to take advantage of the many opportunities available to sought-after Aberdeen graduates.

Economics and Spanish & Latin American Studies

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and Spanish & Latin American Studies at Aberdeen is a great combination to widen your solid grounding in the global economy and topical economic challenges and issues. You will gain the strong competitive advantage of a modern European language, cultural perspective and experience and a fast track to a career in European and international organisations and business.

Accountancy and Economics

MA, Joint Honours

Studying Accountancy and Economics at Aberdeen is a great way to prepare for a sparkling career in international finance, business, politics, media and a variety of other sectors. You will gain a thorough grounding in the theory and practice of accountancy, set within the wider perspective of the global economy. You will be taught by leading international economists whose work influences government policy.

Economics and Spanish & Latin American Studies (5 years)

MA, Joint Honours

Economics and Spanish & Latin American Studies at Aberdeen is a great combination to widen your solid grounding in the global economy and topical economic challenges and issues. You will gain the strong competitive advantage of a modern European language, cultural perspective and experience and a fast track to a career in European and international organisations and business.

Business Management and Economics

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and Economics at Aberdeen is a perfect partnership for brilliant career opportunities in business or the public sector, giving you wide knowledge and skills in management, people and organisations in a fast-moving environment with many influences and driven by global, regional and local economy.

International Business

MA, Single Honours

The MA (four years) and the MBus (five years) in International Business are designed to develop the leaders of the future. They provide students with a broad understanding of International Business and are designed to equip you to be successful, with an exceptional knowledge and understanding of both its operations and its economic, political and social context.

A degree that fits you. The degree programmes offered through the Business School are designed to be flexible. Specialise in one area, explore new subjects, or study multiple disciplines to attain a degree that suits your interests and career aspirations.

Law with options in Economics

LLB, Major-Minor Honours

Law with options in Economics at Aberdeen gives you all the benefits of our trademark quality at Aberdeen Law School – ranked 6th in the UK for Law (CUG2021) and with 93% student satisfaction– with the added advantage of insight into the workings of global, national and regional economies and the creators of wealth and poverty, widening your already-bright career prospects still further.

International Business (5 years)

MBus, Single Honours

This programme is designed to equip you to be successful in International Business, with an exceptional knowledge and understanding of both its operations and its economic, political and social context. It will deliver a learning experience that provides students with confidence and the trajectory to add value to employers immediately on graduating.

A degree that fits you. The degree programmes offered through the Business School are designed to be flexible. Specialise in one area, explore new subjects, or study multiple disciplines to attain a degree that suits your interests and career aspirations.

Real Estate

MA, Single Honours

Examine real estate markets from the perspectives of economics, investment and business, at Scotland's leading centre - third in the UK - for real estate research. This RICS-accredited programme prepares you for a career in surveying, with a focus on commercial real estate, investment, management, valuation and development.

A degree that fits you. The degree programmes offered through the Business School are designed to be flexible. Specialise in one area, explore new subjects, or study multiple disciplines to attain a degree that suits your interests and career aspirations.

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

MA, Single Honours

The degree of Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is a springboard to a career in politics, finance or the media. The three complementary subjects have deep historical connections yet have developed as independent disciplines with distinctive methods. PPE students will leave the programme with an understanding not just of modern societies and their political institutions, but how rigorous critical evaluation can bring about significant social and political change.