DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

1. Introduction
1.1 Economics is a discipline of social sciences. It studies relationship between needs and scarce means which have alternative uses. Economics, is the study of general principals of administration of resources, of an individual, a household, a business, or a State; this also includes the examination of the way in which waste arises in all such administration.

1.2 Economic phenomenon or activity means every systematic Endeavour to satisfy a material need, or more precisely one which seeks with the available means to achieve the best possible results, or a given result with the least possible means.

1.3 The Department of Economics initially started working at the Degree College, Quetta, in 1971.
2. Objectives
2.1 To provide qualified and focused professionals in the economics to meet the future needs of public and private sectors and research institutes.

2.2 To prepare researchers to meet the needs of the public and private sectors research organizations.

2.3 To foster an environment that promotes learning through quality teaching and research, while encouraging mutual respect, tolerance and sensitivity.

2.4 To prepare researchers to meet the needs of industry and research organizations, science and technology.

3. Job Opportunities / Marketability Of Graduates
3.1 Provincial & federal public sector departments; Planning & Development, Irrigation, Agriculture, Industries, Finance, Trade & Commerce
3.2 Financial Institutions & organizations such as; Planning Commission, State Bank, Commercial Banks, Zari Taraqiathi Bank, Micro Finance Banks, Development Financial institutions PICIC, TDAP, BOI, Research Institutes
3.3 Private Sector Organizations

3.4 Bilateral and Multilateral International Development Donor Organizations e.g. World Bank, UNDP, JICA, CIDA, etc.
3.5 NGOs (local, national and international)