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.