BA in Economics with Management with Placement Year

Our BA Economics with Management expands on the core Economics degree. Alongside the fundamental theories and techniques of Economics, you’ll study selected modules in finance, business, accounting and management. Tailoring your degree in this way will help give you the knowledge and skills to support a career in your particular area of interest.

Year 1

Economics with Management expands the core of the Economics degree to include one further compulsory module entitled People, Management and Organisations, plus two further optional modules, which could include:

• Accounting and Finance in Business
• New Venture Creation
• Marketing Principles
• One module is chosen from another department, which could include a foreign language.

Year 2

In the second year, you study five compulsory modules investigating Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Economic Data Analysis, Managing in a Global Environment, and Entrepreneurship, and choose one further optional module from a selection that currently includes:

• Business Competition 
• Corporate Finance
• European Economics
• Intermediate Methods for Economics and Finance
• One module is chosen from another department, which could include a foreign language.

Year 3

Placements offer the perfect opportunity for you to develop new skills, build confidence and gain

All of our degrees offer you the option of spending your third year gaining practical experience on a business placement. Business placements are a great way to develop your employment marketability and to engage with employers early in their recruitment pipeline. Placement requires a minimum of forty weeks of work experience and the placement begins in the summer following completion of the second year, and this then becomes the third year of a four-year degree programme. This allows you to really explore and understand your job and to find out if the career or company is for you.

• You will develop your practical skills, confidence and maturity.
• You can focus on a specific career path many employers recruit graduates from their placement programme.
• You will be able to contextualise your studies better, be more mature in your attitude to work,
• You may decide to draw on your working experiences and access a more fulfilling dissertation research subject.
• You will gain invaluable job search and graduate research skills by engaging in the competitive placement recruitment process.

To ensure you are getting the most out of your experience, we support your placement in a number of ways:

First Year Bootcamps and Workshops help you to develop your Placement Strategy and to identify and develop those skills and competencies that will be critical to ensure you are attractive to potential placement employers. These typically involve Employers, Placement Mentors and representatives from Colleges, Societies and the Volunteering Community in Durham.

Second Year Bootcamps and Workshops support you through the placement application process and allow you to develop into a supportive student group to travel along the road of gaining a placement together. They enable you to get to know those students who will return with you in the fourth year. Workshops typically involve employers and former placement students.

The DUBS Placement Programme includes a series of employer-led events which take place throughout term 1 and 2 and is open to all first-year and second-year placement students. The skills sessions and networking events allow students to develop essential employability skills as well as providing valuable insight into the recruitment process.

Placement Mentors: We have a mentorship scheme whereby former placement students share their experiences of the application process and placement with first and second-year students and those out on placement. If you become a placement mentor on your return to University you can continue to develop your interpersonal skills and slide back into your University life with another key role which may well develop a new sense of belonging as well as another valuable contribution to your CV.

Placement Tutors: Whilst you are on placement you are assigned a tutor who will visit you, liaise with your employer and ensure you gain the most from your experience.

The Business Placement year fees are set annually by the University.  For the definitive amount of the Business Placement year fees payable please contact our Placement Team.

*The offer of a place on a ‘with placement’ degree does not imply that Durham University Business School guarantees to find the student placement. The Business School, in association with the University, will assist students in finding and applying for placements, but it is the responsibility of the student to apply for and to obtain a placement (which is subject to approval by the Business School). In the event that a student is unable to obtain a placement, transfer to the equivalent ‘non-placement’ programme is guaranteed provided the student is eligible to transfer on academic grounds. In line with Home Office rules, students from outside the EU will transfer onto the ‘with business placement’ programme only once they have successfully secured a placement (normally at the end of their second year of study). Therefore due to visa requirements, we recommend that international students interested in the business placement year as part of their degree apply for this programme when making their application to us via UCAS.

Year 4

In the fourth year, you submit a Dissertation (a compulsory double module). In addition, you study one compulsory module in Strategic Management. You then choose a further three optional modules from a selection that currently includes:

• Advanced Macroeconomic Theory
• Applied Econometric Theory
• Development of Economics
• Environmental Economics and Policy
• History of Economic Thought 
• Industrial Organisation
• International Economics
• Labour Economics
• Monetary Economics
• Public Economics
• Security Investment Analysis
• Game Theory and Applications
• Post-Keynesian Economics
• One module from another department, which could include a foreign language.

You will also study one module from the list below:

• Asia and the Pacific Rim
• Corporate Entrepreneurship