Economics (with a Professional Placement Year) BSc Hons

at University of Sussex Business School

Gain the confidence to communicate economic ideas and concepts to a wide audience. On this BSc, you’ll study a quantitative approach to economics including advanced statistics and econometrics, while also developing your mathematical economics skills. 

You’ll analyse current real-world issues and focus on specialist areas such as climate change economics, labour economics and international trade – gaining the practical skills for a career at world-leading organisations. You’ll study important issues such as global imbalances and the financial crisis, building your understanding of applied statistical techniques and their application to economic questions. You’ll also choose from a range of specialist options – such as data coding and visualisation, environmental economics, monetary theory and and policy, and the economics of crime – giving you a high level of expertise in these specialist fields.