Career Prospect

Source: https://admission.econ.cuhk.edu.hk/ug/bssc-economics/career-prospect/ Parent: https://admission.econ.cuhk.edu.hk/ug/bssc-economics

Our Competitive Edges

Portable	Skills
Economics frees you up from geographic boundaries. Like our graduates, you can go for opportunities anywhere around the globe where your economic skills pay off the most.	It is the mindset of market, price, competition and incentives, coupled with solid theoretical and quantitative skills that allow our students to excel in numerous regulatory, business, finance, and academic professions around the globe.

Throughout the years, our alumni have made their marks in various fields –

Banking and Finance: About 50% join the banking and finance industry taking up analytical and strategic roles, as well as roles from the regulatory side
Education: About 10% pursue their career as local HK secondary school teachers
Postgraduate Studies: Around 20% go to graduate schools and eventually become professional economists in academic and non-academic fields, e.g., Hong Kong or foreign governmental agencies, international NGOs, and so forth

Employers include HK Monetary Authority, HK Financial Secretary’s Office, HKEx, SFC, HK Census and Statistics Department, Our Hong Kong Foundation, PwC, Goldman Sachs, Alibaba, etc.