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Program Overview
Overview
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15th for Graduate Prospects for Economics
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16th for Economics
The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide
(2023)
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Introduction
What makes some countries richer than others? How should society fund social care? Why are footballers paid so much?
BA Economics
provides you with the analytic skills and intellectual toolbox to help answer these pressing economics questions and many more. You will learn how to interpret data, understand (and quantify) the decisions made by individuals, organisations, and governments and evaluate economic policies.Programme overview
BA Economics
begins by introducing the foundational principles of Economic Theory. The BA then seeks to connect these analytical skills with insights from other Social Sciences such as Politics, International Relations, History and Sociology. This flexible programme is designed to allow you to take the skills you learn through an Economics degree and apply them to multiple careers.You will cover the fundamentals of Economic theory and practice, and as your degree progresses and you discover more about both the subject and about yourself, you have the opportunity to flex this programme in ways that speak to your changing interests and strengths. This might lead you to choose modules in:
Amongst many other specialisations. This leads to a degree unique to you, where you have played a major part in building the degree you want.
Key Facts
You do not need an A level in Economics or an A level in Mathematics to enrol in BA Economics.
Throughout your degree, we’ll supply training in CV writing, interview assessment centres and telephone interviews. We are proud of our aspiring economists and aim to nurture the potential in every one of them.
This course is also available as a 4-year programme with a year in industry.
Programme outcomes
BA Economics
offers a grounding in the fundamentals of Economics. The most powerful aspect of Economics is that it teaches a way of thinking which can then be applied to a specific field. If you want to be a government economist advising on tax or social/welfare costs, you need specific knowledge and skills. The same is true for a career in fiNAce. You need specific fiNAce models – how much to invest here, or advise clients to invest there. But the mode of thinking is the same for both: it is the critical, disciplined way of thinking that you will get from an Economics degree at Lancaster University. Economics opens up the world because the critical and analytical thinking skills that it inculcates are applicable to whatever your passion, be they Politics, FiNAce, the trading floor, or working for an NGO, all use the same skills.Your department
Lancaster University Management School
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