Economics and Management

This is a Connected Degree
Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course.

Overview
To be a business leader you need to understand how to run a business and how to make financial decisions that will keep your business profitable. Our BA (Hons) Economics and Management degree will give you the skills and knowledge to do both.

You'll have the edge in the employment market when you graduate with a broad understanding of the core elements of business such as managing people, accounting, and operations management, as well as a deep understanding of how economic issues impact management practices and how data shapes decision making.

If you choose to take a paid placement, you’ll have the chance to apply your new economic management knowledge in the workplace and graduate with a year of industry experience. Past students have worked at companies like the Office for National Statistics, Amazon, or the Department for Energy and Climate Change.

Course highlights

• Learn about key economic topics that impact society and drive behaviour, such as the environment, the gender pay gap, productivity and poverty

• Personalise your studies to the areas of economics and business you're most interested in, whether that's sustainability, global business, financial markets or business development

• Develop your confidence and ability to analyse numerical data to drive decision making

• Benefit from expert teaching, informed by our academics' close relationships with organisations such as the Bank of England and the Office for National Statistics

• Gain a Bloomberg Certificate (a trading platform that's used by 250,000 financial service professionals) in our dedicated Bloomberg Suite

• See economics and business from a different angle by spending a year abroad at a partner university in the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe or the Far East

• Get support to set up your own business from our Entrepreneurs in Residence programme

• Learn a foreign language as part of your degree

Accreditation

This course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). This means that you won't have to take some of the CIMA exams if you want to be CIMA certified after you graduate. You'll have completed part of your professional qualification by doing this degree.

Careers and opportunities

When you finish this degree you'll be highly employable. You'll understand how all parts of a business connect and how financial data and decisions influence success and failure. You can apply these skills to any business sector that you're interested in.

Graduates of this course have gone on to jobs as:

• Commercial analyst

• Product manager

• Claims handler

• Sales consultant

• Financial analyst

• Account manager

• Trader in financial assets

• Purchasing and acquisitions officer

Graduates of this course have gone on to work for companies such as:

• National Grid

• Cummins (power solutions)

• Prospect Legal

• H & M

• Toyota

• Total Gas and Power

• Majestic Wine

You could also choose to continue your studies at postgraduate level, or set up your own business with help and support from the University.

You'll get careers support throughout your studies and for 5 years after you graduate.

Year 1

Core modules in this year include:

• Business Accounting
• Business Operations and Systems Management
• Economics For Business
• Managing People in Organisations
• Personal Development Planning For Economists (Level 4)
• Introduction to Data Analytics
• Issues in Economics

There are no optional modules in this year.

Year 2

Core modules in this year include:

• Data and Research Methods For Economics
• Intermediate Economics
• Managerial and Decision Economics
• Personal Development Planning For Economists (Level 5)
• Corporate Financial Management

Options to choose from in this year currently include:

• Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship
• Modern Foreign Language
• Leadership, Ethics, Governance and Sustainability
• Psychology and Altruism in Economics and Finance
• Risk Management and Supply Chain Vulnerability
• Behavioural Economics and Game Theory
• Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets
• International Business
• International Economics
• Study Abroad 120 Credits (Year Long)

Placement year (optional)

On this course, you can do an optional work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years to get valuable experience working in industry. We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your situation and ambitions. You’ll get mentoring and support throughout the year.

Year 3

Core modules in this year include:

• Strategic and International Management
• Economics Research Project
• Market Economics and Business Strategy

Options to choose from in this year currently include:

• Advanced Corporate Financial Management
• Business Forecasting and Data Analysis
• Crime, Conflict and Terrorism
• Development Economics
• International Banking and Financial Instruments
• Operations Strategy and the Supply Chain
• Public Policies and Labour Markets
• Behavioural Finance and the Psychology of Investment
• Business Improvement & Creativity
• Critical Leadership: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
• Economics and Finance of Sport
• Project Management For Enterprise
• Responsible and Sustainable Business

We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies.

Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry and some optional modules may not run every year. If a module doesn’t run, we’ll let you know as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.

How you're assessed

You’ll be assessed through:

• analysis of topical case studies
• written reports
• essays
• presentations
• self-led independent study project

You’ll be able to test your skills and knowledge informally before you do assessments that count towards your final mark.

You can get feedback on all practice and formal assessments so you can improve in the future.

The way you’re assessed may depend on the modules you select. As a guide, students on this course last year were typically assessed as follows:

• Year one students: 58% by written exams and 42% by coursework
• Year two students: 45% by written exams 4% by practical exams and 51% by coursework
• Year three students: 28% by written exams and 72% by coursework

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
• Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business