Economics with Financial Services BSc(Hons)

Your course

Economics is an interesting and important subject that helps you understand how the world works, while financial services are one the key sectors in the UK and global economy. This course allows you to combine these two complementary subjects, providing you with a comprehensive understanding of both.

The course focuses on key areas such as macroeconomics, microeconomics as well as various finance modules. 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. You’ll also gain a deep understanding of banking and financial markets. By the end of the course, you’ll have a good understanding of economics with an additional focus on financial services to help make you attractive to employers in your chosen field.

Throughout the course, you’ll learn how mathematical and statistical tools can be used to analyse economic and financial decisions. You’ll study large datasets, which will enable you to make optimal decisions based on highly advanced data analysis, a valuable skill for any financial professional. You’ll also have the opportunity to use the University’s trading room, which enables you to use advanced technology to analyse economic and financial data in real time.

You’ll come away from the course being able to understand and respond to situations in the financial world, using skills that you have established during your study of economics.

Example modules

• Microeconomics • Macroeconomics • Financial Fluency and Legal Environment • Monetary and Financial Framework

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.*

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Course info

Course length:

3 years full-time 4 years inc. placement year

Entry requirements:

BBB/DDM/120 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).