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Business Economics BSc(Hons)
Your course
Economics is an interesting and important subject that helps you understand how the world works. This course aims to give you a comprehensive understanding of the subject, with a particular focus on applications to the business environment.
The course focuses on key areas such as macroeconomics, microeconomics, international economics, and business. You’ll have the opportunity to study important issues such as unemployment, inflation, and economic growth, and to use economic models to analyse how households, businesses and governments behave and assess the implications of their decisions. During the course, you’ll be able to choose option modules to explore what excites you about the business world. The modules could help you decide which areas to specialise in and what career choices to make.
You’ll explore how mathematical and statistical tools can be used to analyse economic and business decisions. You’ll be able to explore large datasets that will enable you to make optimal decisions based on highly advanced data analysis, a skill highly desired by modern businesses. You’ll also have the opportunity to use the University’s trading room which enables you to use advanced technology to analyse economic, business and financial data in real time. You should come away from the course being able to understand and respond to situations in the business world, using skills that you have established during your study of economics.
Example modules
• Microeconomics • Macroeconomics • Applied Business Economics • Leadership Theory and Practice
Your future
Previous graduates from this subject area have gone in to roles such as Associate Resource, Finance Officer, Audit Associate, Assistant Management Accountant and Commercial Finance Analyst with companies such as Cranford Group, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, KPMG UK, Outokumpu and Sykes Cottages.*
Course info
Course length:
3 years full-time 4 years inc. placement year
Entry requirements:
BBB-BBC/DDM-DMM/120-112 inc. GCSE Maths at grade 5/B
Graduate employment:
95% Graduates employed*
*Percentage of graduates from this subject who are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 18/19, UK domiciled graduates).
