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The University of Queensland (UQ)

  • 29% international / 71% domestic

Bachelors of Engineering (Honours) / Economics

  • Bachelor

Enhance your engineering skill-set through a dual program including economics to prepare yourself for exciting and rewarding career opportunities.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor
Duration
5.5 years full-time
Course Code
2346, 080725M
Intake Months
Feb, Aug
International Fees
$44,336 per year / $243,848 total

About this course

This dual program will equip you with expertise in economics to enhance your engineering abilities, providing you with skills in investment decision-making and managing complex environmental and social priorities.

The engineering program is split into six main disciplines and a total on 18 speciality majors. The main streams of the program are chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, mining and software engineering.

Depending on your choice of major, the skills you'll develop under the engineering component of the program will allow you to work in a range of fields, from infrastructure and hospitals to energy and software.

With the economics program, you'll challenge your personal thinking and current ideas of people and the world, learning how economics is central to decision-making in business, markets, trade, government, health and more. You'll undertake a variety of courses that will build your knowledge about key economic principles, theories and tools, and study topics including microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics.

You'll graduate with a highly regarded skill-set, ready for exciting and rewarding career opportunities across an amazing array of industries and organisations.

Study locations

St Lucia

What you will learn

Program highlights
  • Join the university ranked number one in Queensland for engineering and technology, with the largest range of engineering disciplines of any university in the state.
  • Study at the only institution in Queensland to offer the Bachelor of Economics.
  • Benefit from the School of Economics' research focus that ensures content is engaging and relevant today and into the future.
  • Develop a range of statistical and analytical tools you can use to solve policy and decision-making challenges.

1 in Queensland for engineering and technology

QS World University Rankings 2020

1 in Queensland for economics and econometrics

QS World University Rankings 2020

Career pathways

Our programs prepare you for your first job and beyond. Depending on which major you choose, here are some of the careers you could be on your way to:

  • Economic consultant
  • Chemical engineer
  • Civil engineer
  • Investment analyst
  • Electrical engineer
  • Trade finance operations officer
  • Mechanical engineer
  • Mining engineer
  • Energy and resource economist
  • Software engineer