Bachelor of Arts - Economics and International Relations (Honours) (with placement)

BA (Hons) Economics and International Relations with placement — recorded in the export only in this sandwich form — joins the two disciplines that together explain most of the world’s news: economic analysis with econometric method on one side, the international political system on the other, plus a working year in an organisation where the combination earns its keep, from risk consultancies to trade bodies and development organisations.

The intellectual payoff is the interface itself — sanctions, trade wars, development finance, energy politics — and coursework repeatedly sets problems that require both toolkits at once: modelling a tariff’s incidence and mapping its diplomatic fallout, evaluating an aid programme economically and politically. The placement year, positioned before final-year specialisation, supplies live material and frequently the dissertation dataset.

Dissertation strategy completes this course’s niche logic: students who pair the placement’s dataset with a genuinely political-economy question — sanctions exposure, supply-chain rerouting, remittance flows — graduate holding a work sample aimed exactly at the risk-analysis employers the degree targets, and the faculty’s dual-discipline supervision arrangements support precisely such crossover projects. The taught years run at the standard £16,800 with September and January windows recorded across all cycles.

The counselling line writes itself from the syllabus: political-economy analysis is a small, genuinely undersupplied hiring niche paying £23,000–£27,000 at entry across risk, trade and development employers, and this degree with its placement is a direct approach to it. Completion around 2030 falls inside the 18-month Graduate Route settlement for post-2026 applications, and dependants remain excluded on the taught route throughout.