Economics and Accounting with Study Abroad

Economics and accounting with study abroad brings together two disciplines that, though distinct in their methods and focus, are deeply connected in practice. Economics provides the analytical frameworks for understanding how markets allocate resources, how organisations make decisions under uncertainty, how macroeconomic forces shape the business environment, and how policy interventions produce intended and unintended consequences. Accounting develops the technical skills to record, analyse and communicate financial information within regulatory frameworks, providing the language of business that managers, investors and regulators depend on.

Studying both gives you a dual analytical capability that is highly valued in analytically demanding organisations.

At the University of Bristol you will study economics and accounting with study abroad over four years of full-time study, on a fully integrated programme that combines the two disciplines while including a year spent at an international partner institution. This year abroad broadens your academic perspective considerably, exposing you to different approaches to economics and accounting in a different educational and cultural environment. You will develop quantitative economic analysis skills alongside the technical accounting knowledge that professional financial roles require, building the linkage between accounting and finance that the programme is designed to illuminate.

The typical tariff of 168 reflects the combined analytical demands of two rigorous disciplines at one of the UK's leading research universities.

Graduates pursue careers in accounting, auditing, corporate finance, economic analysis, financial management, banking, consultancy, the civil service and a wide range of senior management roles. Many go on to professional qualifications in accountancy through bodies such as the ICAEW, ACCA or CIMA, using exemptions earned through the degree. Others pursue postgraduate study in economics, finance or management.

The year abroad adds an international dimension that is particularly valued by global accounting firms, multinational organisations and international institutions seeking graduates who are comfortable operating across different economic and business contexts.