City of London College of Economics

City's Department of Economics is committed to excellence in research and education, with a strong research portfolio, highly-regarded undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses, and a growing community of PhD students. It takes particular pride in a very strong graduate employment track record. The department has developed wide-ranging but focused research programmes, with an emphasis on rigorous economic and econometric modelling. Among other topics, the research covers health economics, competition and regulation, financial economics, macroeconomics, the economics of migration and behavioural economics.

We began the development of this Vision & Strategy 2026 by engaging with staff, students and stakeholders back in mid-2015 and have revisited and thoroughly tested the underlying assumptions following the outcome of the EU referendum. Undoubtedly implementation of the Vision & Strategy 2026 will require even greater agility from City than it has shown over the past five years. City’s great internationalism and its London location will be enormous strengths during the uncertain times to come.

Looking back to 2011, when we set to work on the Strategic Plan 2012 to 2016, City aspired to be the only university in London both committed to academic excellence and focused on business and the professions. At that time, the need for change, the urgency of that change and fortunately, its direction were very clear. We defined where we were in terms of quantitative indicators, decided where we wanted to be and swiftly developed and implemented our Strategic Plan 2012 to 2016 to take us there. This involved investment in outstanding academic staff from around the world; revitalisation of our estate; renewal of our infrastructure; and changes to our ways of working.