Bachelor of Science - Economics (Honours)

BSc (Hons) Economics builds the analytical core over three years: microeconomics and macroeconomics developed to intermediate and advanced level, econometrics and statistical methods, mathematical economics, and applied fields spanning labour, development, financial and behavioural economics, with January and September entries both recorded in the portal export.

The course’s quantitative spine is taught as working craft — students estimate models on real datasets in statistical software, interpret regression output for non-technical readers, and complete an empirical dissertation rather than a purely literary one, aligning the degree with the data-analyst hiring channel that now absorbs most UK economics graduates. Policy modules add the writing discipline of briefing notes and evaluation reports.

A subject-choice note for school counsellors: the course assumes mathematics comfort at Standard 12 level and rebuilds calculus and statistics in year one, so strong commerce-with-maths students transition smoothly while maths-avoidant applicants should be steered toward the business degrees instead — an honest filter that protects completion rates. January windows recorded alongside September give the course rare mid-year accessibility for an economics degree, and the £16,800 fee holds at the faculty’s standard undergraduate rate across every listed cycle.

Prospects sit above the business-faculty average when the quantitative content is taken seriously: analyst entry at £24,000–£28,000 across consulting, banking and commercial analytics, with the caveat that the most structured employer of economists — the government service — restricts most schemes by residency status, pointing international graduates toward the private sector. The honours degree confers Graduate Route rights at the post-2027 18-month length, with dependants excluded on taught study routes.