BSc Economics

BSc Economics is our single honours course for economics specialists.

It is a quantitative economics course, and as such you will need to have a strong mathematical background. You should be intending to advance your knowledge in order to become a skilled economist, proceed to postgraduate training in the best universities, or start a career in a renowned organisation, in either the private or public sector.

Modern professional economists need to have a clear understanding of economic principles in order to recognise and model relevant economic problems, and they need to be equipped with mathematical and econometric tools in order to solve and analyse such problems.

BSc Economics provides you with the required training by having a compulsory stream of units in economic principles, mathematical modelling and econometric techniques.

In the first two years of your degree, you will have compulsory units in core economics and quantitative methods, providing an excellent basis for a job as a professional economist.

Throughout your degree, you can choose from a range of optional course units. These units, in particular in your third year, offer the opportunity for further specialisation in an area of particular interest to you.

We offer optional course units in a wide range of economic sub-disciplines reflecting the research strengths of the department. Students often choose to focus their optional choices along certain specialisations. In this way, your focus can be linked to the kind of career you wish to pursue after graduation.

Irrespective of the particular area you are focusing on, employers look for candidates who can produce sound and clear reports that make sense of the available data using advanced quantitative skills in analysis and modelling. The analytical reasoning, essay writing and quantitative techniques provided in the BSc Economics degree give our graduates the very best employment prospects and a healthy start in their post-Manchester career. These skills can be further developed and sharpened by choosing an optional dissertation in your third year.

You also have the opportunity to spend year 3 studying abroad at one of our partner universities as part of a four-year degree option.