BSc (Economics)

You’ll study your Economics degree at our world-renowned Leeds University Business School, home to the Applied Institute for Research in Economics.??

Within a challenging and supportive environment, you’ll explore a wide range of economic perspectives and approaches to real-world challenges. You’ll develop into a well-rounded economist with the skills that are sought after by top graduate employers.?

This course covers the core concepts, practices and techniques in economics. You will gain analytical, quantitative, computing, presentation and other transferable skills, preparing you for a variety of exciting careers in the private and public sector.

Through compulsory modules, you'll develop an in-depth understanding of the nature and methods of economic analysis, allowing you to gain insight into the factors that influence income generation, growth, distribution and individual and firm behaviour, together with policy options and dilemmas.

A range of optional economics modules will provide you with the opportunity to explore specialist areas such as business economics, behavioural economics, monetary policy, labour economics, international trade, and health.

This course offers pathways which allow you to tailor your course to your specific interests or professional aspirations. The majority of the pathways start from year 2, once you have established the foundations of your subject. 

Pathway modules can be taken in particular areas and can be followed through to your final year. This unique level of personalisation and self-direction provides you with flexibility to meet your career goals,?whilst helping?you stand out from the crowd when you graduate.?

The pathways available on this course are:?

• Finance
• Enterprise and Innovation
• Ethics and Sustainability

Course Highlights:

• Choose to take an optional year in industry to gain valuable practical experience, or immerse yourself in a new culture by spending a year studying in a different country at one of our many partner universities across the world.
• Regular opportunities to network with guest speakers from industry and politics at our ‘Lunch with Economists’ series, featuring debates, discussions and presentations. A great way to develop your professional communication skills and gain insights for your future career.
• Develop practical data analysis skills that graduate employers look for, using data software to understand and solve real-world economic problems.
• Build understanding of a range of contemporary economic issues and competing perspectives, and the resulting implications for economic policy.
• Develop important research and analytical skills and apply these in your final year to a year-long project on a topic of your choice. For example, you may decide to investigate a particular area of economic development or conduct your own research into the impacts of social and environmental factors on the economy.
• Benefit from our pluralist approach, helping you gain broad insight into different theoretical perspectives on economic thinking and analysis.

Specialist Facilities:

At Leeds University Business School, you’ll have access to specialist facilities including state-of-the-art lecture theatres, collaborative learning and teaching spaces with the latest interactive technology and modern study spaces with dedicated computer clusters. Read more about our Business School facilities.

Course Details:

Our degrees have a modular structure. This means that the theoretical and applied content within our compulsory modules provide you with the core knowledge and skills that you need.?

Alongside these compulsory modules, you’ll also have the opportunity to shape your course through optional, pathway and discovery modules. They’re a great way to tailor your study around your interests or career aspirations and help you stand out in a competitive job market.?

• Optional modules are related to the field of economics enabling you to deepen your knowledge and skills within this area.??
• Pathways are optional modules themed around key business disciplines, designed to complement your core knowledge and skills in economics and broaden your expertise. You’re able to study modules from only one pathway during each year, with the opportunity to continue, choose a different pathway* or return your focus to economics optional modules as you progress between years.?
• Discovery modules give you opportunities to expand your intellectual horizons outside your subject area. They are categorised into 10 Discovery Themes ranging from arts to sciences, and from theory to practice.??

Whether you choose optional, pathway or discovery modules, you’ll be shaping your course to suit your personal interests and career aspirations. In all years, you will be able to choose from a selection of modules that reflect the research interests and expertise of staff at Leeds.?

Course Structure:

• Year 1?
• Compulsory modules?
• Academic, Professional and Research Skills for Studies in Economics (20 credits)?
• Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business 1B (10 credits)?
• Economics and Global History (10 credits)?
• Economic Perspectives and Controversies (20 credits)?
• Economic Theory and Applications (30 credits)?
• Optional modules?
• Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business (10 credits)?
• Economic Institutions - Labour (10 credits)?
• Economic Institutions - Industry (10 credits)?
• Pathway modules?
• Finance pathway?
• Introduction to Finance (20 credits)?
• Year 2?
• Compulsory modules?
• The Evolution of Economic Ideas (10 credits)?
• Intermediate Microeconomics (10 credits)?
• Mathematics for Business and Economics 2 (10 credits)?
• Economics Research Methods (10 credits)?
• Statistics and Econometrics (20 credits)?
• Intermediate Macroeconomics (10 credits)?
• Optional modules?
• Introduction to Health Economics (10 credits)?
• From Study to Work (10 credits)?
• Industrial Economics (10 credits)?
• Macroeconomic Policy and Performance (10 credits)?
• International Economics (10 credits)?
• Business Economics (10 credits)?
• Labour Economics (10 credits)?
• How to be a Successful Policy Economist (10 credits)?
• Ethics and Economics (10 credits)?
• Transport Economics (10 credits)?
• Project Appraisal (10 credits)?
• Pathway modules?
• Finance pathway?
• Corporate Financial Management (20 credits)?
• Enterprise and Innovation pathway?
• Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice (10 credits)?
• New Enterprise Planning (20 credits)?
• Ethics and Sustainability pathway?
• Leadership Ethics (10 credits)?
• Contemporary Industrial Relations (10 credits)?
• Corporate Social Responsibility (10 credits)?
• Final year
• Compulsory modules?
• Advanced Microeconomics (10 credits)?
• Economics Dissertation (40 credits)?
• Advanced Macroeconomics (10 credits)?
• Optional modules?
• Introduction to the Economic Evaluation of Health (10 credits)?
• Contemporary Issues in Economic Growth (10 credits)?
• Economic Development (20 credits)?
• Economics of Famines (20 credits)?
• Environmental Economics (10 credits)?
• Applied Econometrics (10 credits)?
• Behavioural Economics (10 credits)?
• Modern Theories of Money and Monetary Policy (10 credits)?
• Public Enterprise and Regulation (10 credits)?
• International Economics: Integration and Governance (20 credits)?
• The Economics of Unions (10 credits)?
• The Political Economy of Work (10 credits)?
• Economics of Business and Corporate Strategy (20 credits)?
• Pathway modules?
• Finance pathway?
• Behavioural Finance (10 credits)?
• Financial Derivatives (10 credits)?
• Enterprise and Innovation pathway?
• Critical Perspectives in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (20 credits)?
• Innovation Thinking and Practice (10 credits)?
• Ethics and Sustainability pathway?
• Gender and Equality at Work in Comparative Perspectives (20 credits)?
• Diversity Management (20 credits)

Entry Requirements:

• A-level: AAA
• GCSE: 5 GCSEs at grade C/4 or higher including Mathematics grade A/7 and English Language grade B/6 or equivalent, or an appropriate English language qualification.* *If you have a B/6 in GCSE English Literature we will accept a Grade B/5 or C/4 in GCSE English Language.