BSC (HONOURS) Economics at Sheffield Hallam University

• Study a course balanced between theory and practice to understand the disciplines of economics.
• Acquire key analytical, problem solving, communication, quantitative and computing skills to address business problems.
• Undertake relevant work experience with an optional one-year work placement to prepare for your career.

Gain economic insights by exploring the economic modelling approach and by challenging your way of thinking. Work closely with real world economic data, statistical packages and econometric software such as IBM SPSS and Stata. Develop your professional competencies, employability skills and career development potential, through activities that use the context of work and real world experiences.

Work placements

You will have the opportunity to arrange a year-long work placement in between your second and third years. This gives you a real-world experience to prepare you for your future career.

Your academic and professional advisor helps you in your second year, and a placement officer supports you while you are on placement. You can also apply for a 6-12 week summer vacation placement scheme with the Government Economic Service that could help you secure a job in the civil service.

Live projects

In your final year you get a chance to apply your specialist knowledge and develop your research, analysis and communication skills in the consultancy module. You work in groups to investigate and propose solutions to a specific economics related issue for a client company or local authority body.

Future careers

• economist
• economic analyst
• economics researcher
• business/data analyst
• business developer
• project manager
• market researcher and analyst
• policy developer

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for

• the civil service
• the Bank of England
• Lloyds Banking Group
• Barclays Capital
• HSBC
• Oxford Economics
• Price Waterhouse Coopers
• Bloomberg
• Capita
• Ernst & Young
• KPMG
• Deloitte