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 rankings of Economics Departments in the UK St Andrews came 10th (Guardian) and 9th (The Complete University guide).

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.

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

• New MSc in Economics
• BIC Microeconomic Theory Workshop

Seminars

(The seminar series will resume after the summer)