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Economics and Management

Entry requirements


A level

B,B,B-B,B,C

112-120 points from 3 A levels.

112-122 Tariff points from the Access to HE Diploma.

Cambridge Pre-U score of 54-56.

GCSE/National 4/National 5

5 GCSEs at grade C/4 or higher including Mathematics grade B/5 and English Language grade C/4

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

29

29 points from the IB Diploma. 664 at Higher Level - 29 points from the IB Diploma. 655/754 at Higher Level.

Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)

H3,H3,H3,H3,H4-H3,H3,H3,H3,H3

Acceptable when combined with other qualifications.

Acceptable when combined with other qualifications.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

DDM-DMM

112-120 Tariff points.

T Level

M

UCAS Tariff

112-120

112-120 points from 3 A levels, or equivalent.

112-120 points from the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate including 2 A levels, plus the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate.

About this course


This course has alternative study modes. Contact the university to find out how the information below might vary.

Course option

3years

Full-time | 2024

Other options

4 years | Sandwich | 2024

Subject

Applied economics

**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.

Modules

**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.

Assessment methods

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

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£9,250
per year
England
£9,250
per year
EU
£9,250
per year
International
£17,200
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni


Course location:

University of Portsmouth

Department:

Faculty of Business and Law

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What students say


We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

80%
Applied economics

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Economics

Teaching and learning

65%
Staff make the subject interesting
86%
Staff are good at explaining things
78%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
75%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

85%
Library resources
90%
IT resources
85%
Course specific equipment and facilities
73%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

84%
UK students
16%
International students
78%
Male students
22%
Female students
75%
2:1 or above
8%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

C
D
B

After graduation


The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Economics

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£22,500
med
Average annual salary
96%
med
Employed or in further education
79%
med
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

39%
Business, finance and related associate professionals
13%
Business, research and administrative professionals
8%
Sales, marketing and related associate professionals

This is a degree in demand, as business increasingly needs workers who can examine and explain complex data. And yet the number of economics graduates fell by nearly 10% last year, which means demand is even greater. As so many economic grads go into banking and finance, it's not surprising that over half of all 2015's economics graduates who did go into work were working in London. And don't think it's just the finance industry that's interested in these graduates - there's a significant number who enter the IT industry to work with data as analysts and consultants. It's quite common for economics graduates to go into jobs such as accountancy and management consultancy which may require you to take more training and gain professional qualifications - so don’t assume you won’t have to take any more exams once you leave uni. And the incentive to take them, of course, is better pay, which will be on top of an already healthy average starting salary of over £30,000 for graduates working in the capital.

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Economics

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£23k

£23k

£31k

£31k

£41k

£41k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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