Economics and Accounting with Placement Year

Economics and accounting together form a powerful combination for understanding the financial systems in which businesses, governments, and individuals operate. Economics provides the theoretical frameworks and empirical tools to understand markets, incentives, growth, and policy, while accounting supplies the practical discipline of measuring, interpreting, and reporting financial information. Studying them together means neither is studied in isolation: you develop the capacity to think about the big economic forces shaping organisations and societies while also being able to work rigorously with the specific numbers that reflect those forces in organisational accounts.

At Brunel University London, this four-year, full-time programme includes both a foundation year and a placement year, providing structured support at the start of the degree and substantial professional experience before you graduate. The foundation year gives you a solid academic grounding before you begin the main programme, and the placement year allows you to apply your learning in a real organisational context, whether in accountancy, finance, banking, or another commercial or public sector setting. The programme has been accredited in a way that supports progress towards professional accountancy qualifications, and graduates have gone on to work in leading global organisations in accountancy, finance, and government.

The typical entry tariff is 104 UCAS points.

Graduates with economics and accounting are in demand across accountancy, financial services, banking, investment management, financial analysis, corporate finance, and government economic roles. The professional accountancy routes, including chartered, management, and public sector accountancy, are natural next steps for many graduates, and the academic preparation this degree provides supports progress through those qualifications. The economics grounding also opens doors in economic consultancy, business analysis, and roles in organisations where financial and economic reasoning are valued in combination.

Postgraduate study in accounting, finance, or economics is also an option.