What are your career options graduating from Econs? Not talking about everything under the sun but realistic/relevant/practical options?

1. Become an economist. Where? MAS or in-house Economist (sell-side, in banks) or a similar research function at fund managers (e.g. GIC)

2. Related functions within financial services. You don't aspire to do Ops so it is mainly the front office positions. Sales/Trading? Not likely. They prefer more quant background. No added advantage at all for your econs major. Corp Finance? Not likely. They prefer accounting/banking finance. Equities? Perhaps. But equal footing against accounting/b&f.


For 1, there is a very limited number of such jobs. Hence you need to be really creme of the crop. Also, most houses want to hire experienced economist and rarely have any graduate program. This narrows down your chances of starting well.

For 2, there is no added advantage of Econs. Maybe even disadvantage since some depts/roles consider Econs as akin to Arts (i.e General Degree). I think in NUS, Econs is under Arts fac?