Economics (Econ) (Hons) University of Portsmouth

Overview

Using real topical data from organisations such as HSBC, Barclays, the Bank of England and the UK Government's annual budget, you’ll learn how to analyse and interpret numerical data to understand social issues. These are skills that will help you not only as an economist, but in a variety of roles where data analysis drives decision making.

In this  Economics (Econ) (Hons) degree from University of Portsmouth you'll learn all the core economic theory you need to be an economist using real, topical data from organisations such as HSBC, Barclays, the Bank of England and the UK Government's annual budget. You'll also learn a set of skills that you can use in roles beyond finance.

You'll learn:

• how to use data to communicate a variety of challenging financial, ethical and social issues
• how to present an argument
• how economics influences decision making in a wide range of scenarios, from people's behaviour, to environmental sustainability, to investments and government policy making

After your second or third year you can apply this knowledge on an optional paid placement. Previous students have worked at places like the Office for National Statistics, Amazon, or the Department for Energy and Climate Change.

Course highlights

• Benefit from expert teaching that's informed by our academics' close relationships with organisations such as the Bank of England and the Office for National Statistics
• Gain a Bloomberg Certificate (a trading platform that's used by 250,000 financial service professionals) in our dedicated Bloomberg Suite
• Be employment-ready by using the same software (EViews and STATA) and the same financial databases (Eikon and S&P Global IQ) as professional economists
• Understand how economics affects society through our specialist research expertise in behavioural economics and environmental resource economics
• See economics from a different angle by spending a year abroad at a partner university in the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe or the Far East
• Get support to set up your own business from our Entrepreneurs in Residence Programme

• Learn a foreign language as part of your degree

Careers and opportunities

You can pursue a range of jobs with an economics degree including careers in management, consultancy, or economic analysis.

Recent events such as the Covid pandemic and the cost of living crisis have highlighted how important the skills of economists are in shaping the societies we live in. On this degree you’ll gain the understanding of behavioural economics and the economics of inequality, development and resourcing that you need to help both businesses and society recover.

Graduates of this course have gone on to jobs as:

• control analyst
• account manager
• investment manager
• business analyst
• banking consultant
• compliance analyst
• research specialist

Graduates of this course have gone on to work for companies such as:

• Ernst and Young
• Healthcare of America (HCA)
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Halifax
• IBM
• Royal Bank of Scotland
• Alexander McQueen
• Southern Coop

• Omnicom Group