Economics

Economics shape our everyday life. From the taxes we pay to the price of anything we buy, you’ll engage in the application of economics to a range of issues that are impacting society today.

This course covers current real-world issues and aims to help you understand how economics impacts individuals, businesses, financial organisations, governments and wider society. An emphasis is placed on equipping you with the knowledge and skills required to tackle contemporary challenges facing governments and businesses.

Key Course Benefits

Tailor your studies as our wide range of economics and finance courses share a common year one and aim to offer you opportunities to achieve a thorough grounding in economic and financial concepts and principles.

Explore both microeconomics and macroeconomics with extensive exposure to how national economies, businesses and other organisations operate in a global context. Learn alternative schools of economic thoughts and contrast heterodox approaches with the orthodox mainstream of economic theory

Build industry insight*, learn from experienced staff and hear from industry professionals who, in the past, have included speakers from HM Treasury, Lloyds Bank, Barclays and the European Commission. (Staff may be subject to change)

Develop practical skills in our Bloomberg Trading Floor* featuring 42 dual screen Bloomberg terminals (subject to availability).

Access additional maths and statistics support; our sigma centre offers maths and statistics support through drop-in sessions and bookable appointments with experienced tutors*.

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