Welcome to the School of Economics & Finance. We are a dynamic research-led School that aims to both undertake research of the highest quality and to bring the understanding and excitement from the latest cutting-edge research into our teaching throughout our undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes. We are very highly rated in UK University subject league tables and are consistently ranked the top Economics unit in Scotland. In the the most recent 2009 rankings of Economics Departments in the UK St Andrews came 3rd (Guardian), 6th (Independent) and 8th (Times).

Our strength is in applied theory but particularly in dynamic macroeconomics, finance, household economics, competition and innovation and climate change. We support two research centres - the Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis (CDMA) and the Centre for Research in Industry, Enterprise, Finance and the Firm (CRIEFF) - and run annual international Conferences in both Dynamic Macroeconomics and in Applied Microeconomics. We are actively involved in the new Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE).

Our school has grown rapidly over the last 5 years, in staff as well as in student numbers. We attract top-quality students from all over the world and currently run five postgraduate M.Sc. programmes in International Strategy and Economics; Finance; Analytical Finance; International Finance and in Money Banking and Finance respectively. We have just introduced a new undergraduate M.Sci. programme in Applied Quantitative Finance.

The Times Good University Guide 2010
St Andrews comes 8th in the ranking of Economics Departments published by the Times (3 June 2009) - up 4 places from the year before.

The Guardian University Guide 2010
St Andrews comes 3rd in the ranking of Economics Departments published by the Guardian (12 May 2009) - up 5 places from the year before.

RAE 2008
St Andrews ranked 12 th in UK and 1 st in Scotland for the quality and volume of its research according to 2008 RAE Exercise

Latest News

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• St Andrews Professor shares platform with Nobel Prizewinner Professor Robert Solow
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Seminars

Monday 15th March
Christophe Chamley (Boston, Paris) "Contingent Government Debt and Private Expectations in England, 1735-50"
(at 16:00 in F2, School Seminar)

Wednesday 17th March
Felix Fitzroy 'Comparison of welfare systems: categorical versus universal benefits'
(at 13:00 in F2, Micro Brown Bag)

Thursday 18th March
Thorsten Beck (Tilburg) "Credit Information Sharing, Banking Sector Outreach and Corporate Tax Evasion"
(at 16:00 in F2, School Seminar)

Wednesday 24th March
Kaushik Mitra 'Does Ricardian Equivalence Hold when Expectations are not Rational?'
(at 13:00 in F2, Macro Brown Bag)