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Ph.D., M.Litt., M.Sc., and Divinity M.Phil. theses approved after 1970 are catalogued in iDiscover, as are M.D. and M.Chir. theses approved after May 2006. Earlier theses are listed in a card catalogue in the Manuscripts Reading Room and are gradually being added to iDiscover.

Since 1 October 2017, all PhD theses are being deposited in electronic form to the University repository Apollo . Many earlier theses are also in the repository, but if they are not yet in digital form it is possible to request access to these theses. There is more information on how to request a copy of a printed thesis further down this page.

Gaining access to electronic copies of theses

The author of a given thesis in Apollo can choose whether their thesis is available to be downloaded, available on request or unavailable. While many of the theses in Apollo are openly available for download, s ome theses in the repository are not open access because they have either been embargoed by the author or because they are unable to be made openly available for copyright or other r easo ns.   For an explanation of the different theses access levels,  see this page .

Open Access theses

Theses that have been made available Open Access can be downloaded from Apollo as a PDF file without any restrictions other than the license under which they have been made available . Just click on the document file in the thesis record to download a copy.

Embargoed theses

Theses with an embargo are shown in Apollo with a padlock icon over the PDF file are not open access but can be requested. If you wish to access the full thesis, click on the padlock icon on the PDF and you will be redirected to the repository’s ‘ Request a Copy ’ function. Requests for embargoed theses will be passed on to the author so they can choose to grant or refuse the request at their discretion.

Controlled theses

Theses under controlled access remain unpublished because they are not made available on the internet via the Apollo repository and as such, the rules for unpublished works in UK copyright law will apply to these theses. Controlled access theses are provided by the University Library in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents act 1998. Theses under controlled access are shown in Apollo with a padlock icon over the PDF file are not open access but can be requested. If you wish to access the full thesis, click on the padlock icon on the PDF and you will be redirected to the repository’s ‘ Request a Copy ’ function. For further information on copying by librarians or archivists see: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/43

If a thesis has been digitised by the Digital Content Unit's image request service in the library it will be deposited in Apollo under controlled access and can be requested via the thesis record in Apollo.

Requesting a copy of a printed thesis

Researchers can order a copy of an unpublished thesis which was deposited in print form through the Library’s  Digital Content Unit via the image request form . Copies of theses may be provided to researchers in accordance with the  law  and in a manner that is common across UK libraries.The law allows us to provide whole copies of unpublished theses to individuals as long as they sign a declaration saying that it is for non-commercial research or private study. The agreement used for access to theses at Cambridge has been drafted using the guidance by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).

Theses are not available for borrowing or inter library loan. The copyright of theses remains with the author. The law does not allow us to provide a copy for inclusion in a general library collection or for wider distribution beyond the individual receiving the copy, without the explicit permission of the author or copyright holder. Where someone approaches us asking for a copy for their library or wider distribution, they must obtain the explicit permission of the author or copyright owner.

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The Economics dissertation

In their final year of the Economics course , students write a dissertation on a topic of their choice. Here are some of the many questions that Christ's students have explored in their dissertations: 

  • Does CEO pay structure push them to take more risks?
  • Do longer-serving politicians get more 'pork' for their constituents? 
  • Who do charities like Oxfam give their money to and why?   

Example dissertation

To see one example, click here for the work of Christ's alumnus Sajan Shah, who won the Faculty or Economics Adam Smith prize for Best Dissertation in 2018 for his work ' The price of free education: Extracting the school quality premium in housing using Brighton and Hove's school admission reforms '.  

Back to Economics resources

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Economics is no longer accepting new applications.

Students will be registered initially for the Certificate of Postgraduate Study (CPGS) in Economics for one year full-time and two years part-time. In order to satisfy the requirements for the CPGS students are required to undertake and pass four coursework modules plus attend the 'How to do Economics' lecture course; write a research proposal (maximum length of 10,000 words); and attend workshops and seminars. The attendance of part-time students must be discussed with their respective supervisor. 

Students will be considered for registration for the PhD once they:

  • have successfully completed the requirements for CPGS (above); and
  • submit an acceptable chapter of not more than 20,000 words. The chapter submitted must be of a standard that would enable it to form the basis of one-third of the student's eventual PhD thesis. This means that the thesis submitted must contain research that could be expanded upon to constitute one-third of the PhD thesis.

Once upgraded to PhD status, a student concentrates on their PhD thesis. In general, the thesis format is either in the form of a book divided into chapters, or of three or more connected articles; in either case, the Faculty has a strict limit of 60,000 words. As research progresses, there will be opportunities to present work in progress at research workshops attended by Faculty members and research students. PhD students will also be required to attend research seminars given by external speakers and Faculty members. 

The Faculty expects supervisors to meet their students regularly throughout the year.  Meetings should take place at least once a month and should be more frequent during the first year of research for full-time students. Part-time students must discuss suitable arrangements with their supervisor.

A supervisor should give oral or written comments on draft chapters or papers.

Students can expect to receive an online feedback report each term.

Thesis / Dissertation

Examination for the PhD involves submission of a thesis and an oral examination. In general, the thesis format is either in the form of a book divided into chapters, or of three or more connected articles; in either case, the Faculty has a strict limit of 60,000 words. The requirement is that full-time students submit within 4 years and part-time students submit within 7 years.

Depending on the modules chosen during the CPGS year (full-time) / two years (part-time), students might have to do essays, projects, or written papers to satisfy the requirements of the CPGS. 

Written examination

Depending on the modules chosen during the CPGS year (full-time) / two years (part-time), students might have to sit written examination to satisfy the requirements of the CPGS. Both full-time and part-time students must take these in-person.

The research proposal that must be submitted by the end of the CPGS will be evaluated and the student will also be subject to a viva. This will be in-person for both full-time and part-time students. 

Key Information

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Some courses can close early. See the Deadlines page for guidance on when to apply.

Funding Deadlines

These deadlines apply to applications for courses starting in Michaelmas 2024, Lent 2025 and Easter 2025.

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Economics at Cambridge

Economics at Cambridge gives you an understanding of core, pure and applied economics.

Study a range of different topics, including supply and demand, the role of prices and markets, employment, inflation, the operation of financial institutions and monetary policy.  

Our course provides a sound understanding of core, pure and applied economics.

You study economics in considerable depth, while also using ideas and techniques from many other disciplines including:

  • mathematics

Facilities and resources

Past and present Faculty members, such as Alfred Marshall and John Maynard Keynes, have played a major role in the subject’s development.

Several members of our Faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, including Sir John Hicks, James Meade, Sir Richard Stone, Sir James Mirrlees and Amartya Sen.

We are committed to using economics to improve public policy. Recent staff have been active on the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England the Competition Commission.

They also advise international agencies such as the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development.

Our Faculty of Economics facilities include:

  • access to an extensive range of statistical databases and software
  • the Marshall Library of Economics, which holds a comprehensive collection of books, journals and other papers in economics
  • the student-run Marshall Society, which organises social events and informal lectures from distinguished visiting speakers

You'll also have access to the impressive Cambridge University Library, one of the world’s oldest university libraries.

Course costs

When you go to university, you’ll need to consider two main costs – your tuition fees and your living costs (sometimes referred to as maintenance costs).

Your living costs will include costs related to your studies that are not covered by your tuition fees. There are some general study costs that will apply for all students – you can find details of these costs here .

Other additional course costs for Economics are detailed below. If you have any queries about resources/materials, please contact the Faculty.

  • University approved scientific calculator: CASIO FX570, CASIO FX115 or CASIO FX991. Estimated cost £20.

Your future career

As an Economics graduate, you will communicate well. You will have the skills to understand complex arguments and analyse practical issues and data.

These skills are valuable in many careers, particularly professional, financial and managerial occupations. They also provide a helpful foundation for many Masters’ degree courses.

Many graduates go on to professional training in:

  • chartered accountancy
  • actuarial work and similar fields

Other graduates go on to work as professional economists in:

  • financial institutions
  • government and management consultancy

Teaching is provided through lectures, practical classes and small-group supervisions.

In your first year you can usually expect 10 to 15 lectures each week.

You’ll be assessed through formal written examinations at the end of each year and the compulsory dissertation in the third year.

Typically, you have one 3-hour exam for each paper covered that year.

In your first year:

  • British Economic History paper is assessed through an exam paper and a project.

In your second year:

  • Econometrics paper is assessed through a project
  • History and Philosophy of Economics paper is assessed through essay work

You won't usually be able to resit any of your exams.

Year 1 (Part I)

You get an introduction to the subject, a common core of knowledge which can subsequently be extended.

You take 5 compulsory papers:

  • Microeconomics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Quantitative Methods in Economics, an introduction to the use of mathematical and statistical techniques in economics
  • Political and Social Aspects of Economics
  • British Economic History

These papers cover topics such as:

  • supply and demand
  • the role of prices and markets
  • the operation of financial institutions
  • monetary policy

Year 2 (Part IIA)

You take 3 compulsory papers:

  • Theory and Practice of Econometrics I

You also take one optional paper, chosen from:

  • International Trade and Development
  • Mathematics and Statistics for Economists
  • Modern Societies
  • The Modern State and its Alternatives
  • International Conflict, Order and Justice
  • History and Philosophy of Economics, also available as an optional paper in the third year
  • World Depression in the Interwar Years

Through these papers you:

  • acquire a knowledge and understanding of a range of key topics and analytical techniques in microeconomic and macroeconomic theory
  • develop knowledge of key econometric techniques
  • learn the IT skills needed to undertake a project in applied econometrics

Year 3 (Part IIB)

You take 2 compulsory papers:

  • Microeconomic Principles and Problems
  • Macroeconomic Principles and Problems

You also take two optional papers and write a compulsory dissertation of 7,500 words.

Optional papers can vary from year to year. Recent examples include:

  • Economic Theory and Analysis
  • Political Economics
  • Banking and Finance
  • Public Economics
  • The Economics of Developing Countries
  • Theory and Practice of Econometrics II
  • Global Capitalism
  • British and European Politics
  • History and Philosophy of Economics, also available as an optional paper in the second year

For further information about this course and the papers you can take see the Faculty of Economics website .

Changing course

It’s really important to think carefully about which course you want to study before you apply. 

In rare cases, it may be possible to change course once you’ve joined the University. You will usually have to get agreement from your College and the relevant departments. It’s not guaranteed that your course change will be approved.

You might also have to:

  • take part in an interview
  • complete an admissions test
  • produce some written work
  • achieve a particular grade in your current studies
  • do some catch-up work
  • start your new course from the beginning 

For more information visit the Faculty website .

You can also apply to change to:

  • Management Studies at the Judge Business School

You can't apply to this course until you're at Cambridge. You would usually apply when you have completed 1 year or more of your original Cambridge course.

You should contact your College’s Admissions Office if you’re thinking of changing your course. They will be able to give you advice and explain how changing courses works.

Minimum offer level

A level: A*A*A IB: 41-42 points, with 776 at Higher Level Other qualifications : Check which other qualifications we accept

Subject requirements

To apply to any of our Colleges for Economics, you will need A levels/IB Higher Levels (or the equivalent) in: 

  • Mathematics 

If you’re studying IB, we ask for Analysis and Approaches for this course. If this isn’t an option at your school, please contact the College you wish to apply to for advice. 

The following Colleges also require Further Mathematics at A level: 

  • Christ’s College
  • Magdalene College 

Colleges will usually require you to achieve an A*/7 in Mathematics and/or Further Mathematics. 

If you are applying to Trinity Hall, you will also need an A level/IB Higher Level in an essay-based subject.

These subject requirements are provisional for 2025 entry. Please check back in April 2024 for confirmed details.

Further Mathematics A level 

A level Further Mathematics is very strongly encouraged. If unavailable or you’ve recognised its desirability too late, we’d advise you to do as much additional maths as possible, eg by studying advanced material or Further Mathematics AS level.

What Economics students have studied

Most Economics students (who had studied A levels and started at Cambridge in 2017-19) achieved at least A*A*A* (87% of entrants).

Most had studied:

  • Economics (93%)
  • Further Mathematics (93%)
  • or both (86%)

The majority of students who studied IB achieved at least 44 points overall.

Check our advice on choosing your high school subjects . You should also check if there are any required subjects for your course when you apply.

Admissions test

All applicants for Economics for 2025 entry are required to take the Test of Mathematics for University Admission (TMUA) at an authorised assessment centre. You must register in advance for this test.

Please see the admissions test page for more information.

If you applied to study Economics in the 2024 entry March application round , you'll be required to take a written assessment if you're invited to interview. You won't need to register in advance for this and your College will provide details in your interview invitation. See the admissions test page for more information.

Submitted work

You won't usually be asked to submit examples of written work. You may be asked to do some reading prior to your interview, but if this is required the College will provide full details in your interview invitation.

Offers above the minimum requirement

The minimum offer level and subject requirements outline the minimum you'll usually need to achieve to get an offer from Cambridge.

In some cases, you'll get a higher or more challenging offer. Colleges set higher offer requirements for a range of reasons. If you'd like to find out more about why we do this,  check the information about offers above the minimum requirement  on the entry requirements page.

Some Colleges usually make offers above the minimum offer level. Find out more on our qualifications page .

All undergraduate admissions decisions are the responsibility of the Cambridge Colleges. Please contact the relevant  College admissions office  if you have any queries.

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  • Visit the Faculty of Economics website - The Faculty of Economics website has more information about this course, facilities, people and research.

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  • Find out how to apply and how our admissions processes work - Our admissions process is slightly different to other universities. We’ve put together a handy guide to tell you everything you need to know about applying to study at Cambridge.
  • Improve your application - Supercurricular activities are a great way to engage with your chosen subject outside of school or college.

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Contextual information.

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For those in need of one, an organ transplant is a matter of life and death. 

Every year, the medical procedure gives thousands of people with advanced or end-stage diseases extended life. This “second chance” is heavily dependent on the availability, compatibility, and proximity of a precious resource that can’t be simply bought, grown, or manufactured — at least not yet.

Instead, organs must be given — cut from one body and implanted into another. And because living organ donation is only viable in certain cases, many organs are only available for donation after the donor’s death.

Unsurprisingly, the logistical and ethical complexity of distributing a limited number of transplant organs to a growing wait list of patients has received much attention. There’s an important part of the process that has received less focus, however, and which may hold significant untapped potential: organ procurement itself.

“If you have a donated organ, who should you give it to? This question has been extensively studied in operations research, economics, and even applied computer science,” says Hammaad Adam , a graduate student in the Social and Engineering Systems (SES) doctoral program at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). “But there’s been a lot less research on where that organ comes from in the first place.”

In the United States, nonprofits called organ procurement organizations, or OPOs, are responsible for finding and evaluating potential donors, interacting with grieving families and hospital administrations, and recovering and delivering organs — all while following the federal laws that serve as both their mandate and guardrails. Recent studies estimate that obstacles and inefficiencies lead to thousands of organs going uncollected every year, even as the demand for transplants continues to grow.

“There’s been little transparent data on organ procurement,” argues Adam. Working with MIT computer science professors Marzyeh Ghassemi and Ashia Wilson , and in collaboration with stakeholders in organ procurement, Adam led a project to create a dataset called ORCHID: Organ Retrieval and Collection of Health Information for Donation . ORCHID contains a decade of clinical, financial, and administrative data from six OPOs.

“Our goal is for the ORCHID database to have an impact in how organ procurement is understood, internally and externally,” says Ghassemi.

Efficiency and equity 

It was looking to make an impact that drew Adam to SES and MIT. With a background in applied math and experience in strategy consulting, solving problems with technical components sits right in his wheelhouse.

“I really missed challenging technical problems from a statistics and machine learning standpoint,” he says of his time in consulting. “So I went back and got a master’s in data science, and over the course of my master’s got involved in a bunch of academic research projects in a few different fields, including biology, management science, and public policy. What I enjoyed most were some of the more social science-focused projects that had immediate impact.”

As a grad student in SES, Adam’s research focuses on using statistical tools to uncover health-care inequities, and developing machine learning approaches to address them. “Part of my dissertation research focuses on building tools that can improve equity in clinical trials and other randomized experiments,” he explains.

One recent example of Adam’s work : developing a novel method to stop clinical trials early if the treatment has an unintended harmful effect for a minority group of participants. “I’ve also been thinking about ways to increase minority representation in clinical trials through improved patient recruitment,” he adds.

Racial inequities in health care extend into organ transplantation, where a majority of wait-listed patients are not white — far in excess of their demographic groups’ proportion to the overall population. There are fewer organ donations from many of these communities, due to various obstacles in need of better understanding if they are to be overcome. 

“My work in organ transplantation began on the allocation side,” explains Adam. “In work under review, we examined the role of race in the acceptance of heart, liver, and lung transplant offers by physicians on behalf of their patients. We found that Black race of the patient was associated with significantly lower odds of organ offer acceptance — in other words, transplant doctors seemed more likely to turn down organs offered to Black patients. This trend may have multiple explanations, but it is nevertheless concerning.”

Adam’s research has also found that donor-candidate race match was associated with significantly higher odds of offer acceptance, an association that Adam says “highlights the importance of organ donation from racial minority communities, and has motivated our work on equitable organ procurement.”

Working with Ghassemi through the IDSS Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism , Adam was introduced to OPO stakeholders looking to collaborate. “It’s this opportunity to impact not only health-care efficiency, but also health-care equity, that really got me interested in this research,” says Adam.

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Creating a database like ORCHID means solving problems in multiple domains, from the technical to the political. Some efforts never overcome the first step: getting data in the first place. Thankfully, several OPOs were already seeking collaborations and looking to improve their performance.

“We have been lucky to have a strong partnership with the OPOs, and we hope to work together to find important insights to improve efficiency and equity,” says Ghassemi.

The value of a database like ORCHID is in its potential for generating new insights, especially through quantitative analysis with statistics and computing tools like machine learning. The potential value in ORCHID was recognized with an MIT Prize for Open Data , an MIT Libraries award highlighting the importance and impact of research data that is openly shared.

“It’s nice that the work got some recognition,” says Adam of the prize. “And it was cool to see some of the other great open data work that's happening at MIT. I think there's real impact in releasing publicly available data in an important and understudied domain.”

All the same, Adam knows that building the database is only the first step.

“I'm very interested in understanding the bottlenecks in the organ procurement process,” he explains. “As part of my thesis research, I’m exploring this by modeling OPO decision-making using causal inference and structural econometrics.”

Using insights from this research, Adam also aims to evaluate policy changes that can improve both equity and efficiency in organ procurement. “And we’re hoping to recruit more OPOs, and increase the amount of data we’re releasing,” he says. “The dream state is every OPO joins our collaboration and provides updated data every year.”

Adam is excited to see how other researchers might use the data to address inefficiencies in organ procurement. “Every organ donor saves between three and four lives,” he says. “So every research project that comes out of this dataset could make a real impact.”

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Governor Robert Holzmann (Oesterreichische Nationalbank - Central Bank of Austria) will give a public lecture on "Monetary Policy Normalization Beyond Inflation: Rationale, Challenges, and Options", from 4.00-5.30pm. There will be a Q&A session after the talk, followed by a drinks reception in the Marshall Library.

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