Economics and Mathematics BSc Hons drafted drafted
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Program Overview
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Introduction
What makes some countries richer than others? How can we measure inequality or the impact of climate change, and what should we do about it? What makes a business successful? Are education or healthcare investments like the others?
As a student who is comfortable and fluent in mathematics,
BSc Economics and Mathematics
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
BSc Economics and Mathematics focusses on the mathematical and statistical methods employed in Economics, alongside studies in mathematics theory. Whether your goal is to use Economics in FiNAce or Policy, this programme is flexible enough to allow you to pursue either.
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.
Alongside your Economics studies, you will study the principles, methods and concepts of Mathematics. Modules cover a wide range of topics from calculus, probability and statistics to logic, proofs and theorems.
This programme uses your mathematical skills and knowledge to explore the core principles of macro and micro-economics and game theory amongst other areas of the discipline.
Key Facts
What separates Lancaster from the crowd is the flexible nature of our Economics degree programmes. In your third year, you can choose a large number of your modules, focusing on your areas of interest to build a degree unique to you.
You do not need an A level in Economics to enrol in this course.
Programme
outcomes
BSc Economics and Mathematics offers a grounding in the fundamentals of Economics alongside your Mathematical knowledge. 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.
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