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BA Business Economics (Including Placement Year)
About this course
Take the first steps to a successful career. Build your knowledge across the broad area of economics. Develop an enhanced understanding of the business world. Our BA Business Economics provides you with the theoretical and practical skills you need to understand and implement economic decisions made by businesses, managers and financial specialists. This course is a collaboration between our Department of Economics and Essex Business School , allowing you to gain an overview of economics that is relevant to business and introducing you to a wide range of skills within economics, management and organisations and finance. You explore a wide range of topics across both departments, including: We are 4th in UK for research power in economics and econometrics (Times Higher Education research power measure, Research Excellence Framework 2021). Your education is inspired and informed by this pioneering research, so that you graduate with a strong training in economics.
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