BSC (Hons) ECONOMICS

Why choose Economics BSc Honours at Middlesex?

This degree weaves academic learning into the business context. Upon graduation, you’ll have the necessary skills and experience to develop a career in government departments, banks, risk and insurance sectors, investment and broking firms, retail and manufacturing firms, and charities.

Some of the benefits of joining us on this course include:

• Placements, internship opportunities and industry exposure to prepare you to take up positions in government, private sector, voluntary organisations and academia
• A focus on applying knowledge to the industry context
• An advisory board made up of eminent economists and industry personnel
• A department with strong tutorial expertise in behavioural economics and policy-related areas such as development.

The main skills you will learn on the degree are economic analysis and applying economic thinking to understand the (business) world around us. But the set of skills you will acquire is much broader: you will learn data analysis, strategic thinking, communication skills, all the tools and skills that will make you stand out in the labour market.

What you will gain

If you are interested in starting your own business, working in business or becoming a financial or economic analyst, this is the course for you. You’ll learn the theories and methods that help businesses analyse their performance and take measures to help them thrive.

You’ll develop your understanding of how economies and businesses work and the wider potential impacts on financial growth.

You will learn about economics, and gain transferable skills such as communication and computational skills.

You’ll learn to study, question and interpret data and develop confident communication skills to present and discuss your findings. You’ll also be able to design data collection tools as well as analyse and interpret the data with the aim of improving economic decision-making, including business decisions and operations.

We have 145 years of experience delivering professional, creative and technical education that prepares students – like you – for success in global careers.

What you will learn

We will help you develop the main skills in economics, including data analysis, group presentation and discussion, writing and report preparation.

Our Economics Department has strong expertise in behavioural and experimental economics as well as econometrics. We will help you to apply economic theory and knowledge to business practice. We have links with financial, governmental and voluntary organisations, and you’ll be supported on work placements and internships and also to study overseas at linked universities.

You will learn about the following during your studies:

• Individual and firm behaviour under uncertainty
• Price determinism and discrimination
• Game theory and oligopolistic pricing using game theory
• World financial markets
• Regulators and financial instruments
• Securities analysis and investment
• Econometrics and sampling techniques
• Risk and probability distributions.

You’ll also develop a robust ability to use Excel, Stata and other statistical software, interpret financial data and write business reports.