Alumni

Undergraduate highlights

• 73% of BA Economics alumni indicate that they are still living or working in the Greater Montreal area.
• Of the 106 students who moved on to a Master’s (101) or doctoral degree (5) after completing their BA or a Minor (Analytical Economics or Economics) with us, 43 pursued graduate studies in Economics, mostly in Canadian institutions (33 out of 43, including 9 at Concordia).
• Banking is the most popular outcome, with 17.6% of BA alumni reporting a current role in this sector. However, IT solutions and investment/capital markets have been on the rise.
• Job fields (determined by job title) are overwhelmingly white-collar: management, consultant/advisor, analytics, accounting, and sales management are the most represented amongst our BA alumni group.
• The ‘Management’ job field includes roles such as team lead, senior manager, property administrator, supervisor, retail manager, director of operations, business development manager, etc. The ‘Analytics’ job field includes business intelligence analyst, market analyst, lead of advanced analytics, data analyst, pension analyst, financing analyst, etc.
• 23 BA alumni report being a student as their main occupation.

Graduate highlights

• The private sector is the most represented amongst our alumni group, with 63.43% reporting working in a privately owned company: banking, higher education, and IT services/online solutions are the most frequent.
• Analytics represents 39.71% of the occupation type for our graduate alumni. This grouping includes jobs such as data scientist/analyst and policy analyst in a variety of industry sectors (banking and finance being the most common).
• 47% of the graduate alumni group still report living in the Greater Montreal area. In total, 72.28% live in Canada.
• 46.67% of our PhD alumni report being employed or active in higher education: 12 have a teaching role, one identifies as a researcher, and one as a student.
• 17 of the 29 graduate alumni working in government are employed by the Government of Canada.