The study of financial economics helps students understand the forces that drive financial markets, and provides the tools to assess their impacts. It provides a framework for analyzing how individuals, families, businesses, and governments make financial decisions and face trade-offs along the way.<br>Economics is about policy decisions, politics, consumerism, poverty, the cost of living, wages, taxes, the market, globalism, business, and pretty much every other current topic. Major in economics to gain knowledge and skills that improve business and personal decision-making, and provide gateways to careers in business, government, law, and academia. Economic analysis is a useful and trusted part of making sense of a complex world, and making things better.<br><br>Our students learn to analyze numerical data, recognize trends, and think critically. These skills help them find careers in a wide variety of fields--including many positions that dont specifically say economist in the job title.