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BA Economics with a Placement Year
BA Economics with a Placement Year

BA Economics with a Placement Year

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  • Level:4-Year Bachelor's Degree
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English Requirements

IELTS 6.5, with no component below 5.5

Course Information

Explore how economic theory can be applied to the major domestic and global issues of today – and gain valuable skills in the workplace – with our BA Economics with Placement Year degree.

This four-year course focuses on how economic tools can be applied to different markets and situations. You will acquire the skills, knowledge and understanding that will enable you to solve the problems that are challenging policy makers and businesses all over the world.

We also offer a BSc Economics with Placement Year degree at the University of Reading, which covers a narrower range of economic markets and social policy issues but focuses more on techniques for working with data.

Choose economics at the University of Reading

  • Established for more than 50 years.
  • 100% of our research is judged to be world leading or internationally excellent (Research Excellence Framework 2014).

The Reading BA will allow you to understand what’s happening in the world and how policy makers can respond to it: how do economies grow, how can policy makers manage business cycles, is inflation a problem, how can unemployment be reduced, is a five-day week really necessary and so on. You will analyse these issues using a range of economic theories and methods including the theory of games and strategic interactions, natural and behavioural experiments. Your degree will help you to understand the levers of policy and provide policy advice in response to economic problems.

You’ll study practical economic issues and examine the relationship between economics and society more widely, including:

  • Macroeconomics
  • Microeconomics
  • Economic Institutions
  • Economics of Social Policy.

You will also be trained in empirical methods used by professional economists to identify economic relationships and make predictions using different types of data.

Optional modules will bring your studies to life and relate to what is happening outside of the classroom, with interactive modules.

  • Development Economics - understanding of the causes and consequences of underdevelopment and the policies that help to bring people out of poverty.
  • Economics of Banking - exploring the weaknesses in the banking sector, the strategies adopted by banks to address risks, and the rationale for government intervention in the financial sector and banking regulation.
  • Economics of Sport and Games - studying how the competitive and controlled environments within sport can provide laboratories to study human behaviour, to test theories, and to observe the impacts of policy.
  • Public Economics - offering you the chance to assume the role of a government adviser and write policy briefs that address public policy issues.

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

Our graduates are in high demand as a result of the analytical skills and specialist knowledge of economics they develop through this course. 94% of graduates from the Department of Economics are in work or further study within six months of graduating (Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey, 2016/17).

Our recent graduates have secured roles as economists with the Government Economic Service and consultancies such as PwC and KPMG. Others have entered related and non-related careers in finance, business, marketing, publishing, PR and media.

You can choose to study your degree over four years with a paid Professional Placement Year or by applying to spend a full academic year studying abroad. The University provides support to applicants in securing their placements. This includes timetabled support and training from the Department of Economics placement coordinator and focuses on the search, application and selection processes associated with placements.

Past and current students have undertaken placements with 3M, Bank of England, Deloitte, Disney IBM, Johnson and Johnson, NHS England, Nissan, Oracle, and the Government Economic Service (including the Treasury, the Office for National Statistics and Foreign & Commonwealth Office).

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Health Insurance_fee:£300/year

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