Economics and Sport and Exercise Science Liverpool Hope University

Overview

The Economics and Sport and Exercise Science programme from Liverpool Hope University

will enable students to gain the analytical and critical evaluation skills needed to recognise how national and global issues affect a society’s welfare.

The course is designed to provide students with the experience, knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the job market, by putting a strong emphasis on analytical, quantitative and research skills highly valued by employers. It will also develop a student’s ability to apply the concepts, theories and quantitative methods to business and public policy decisions, in a diverse range of settings. 

As we believe your ability to gain meaningful employment after you graduate is really important, there is also a strong focus on helping you to develop your more general and transferable employability skills. 

In this course, students will study a range of areas, including Quantitative Methods, Econometrics, Intermediate Micro and Macroeconomics, History of Economic Thought, Banking & Finance, and International Economics and Finance.

Career opportunities:

The UK's largest recruiter of economists is the Government Economic Service (GES). The GES is the professional body for UK economists in the public sector and employs over 1,500 economists working across more than 30 government departments and agencies. Other major financial organisations such as the Bank of England, also recruit economics graduates onto graduate training/development programmes.

Other employers include:

• privatised utilities and their regulating bodies;
• larger local authorities;
• regional development agencies;
• management consultancies;
• specialist economic consultancies;
• banks (high street and city);
• insurance and accountancy firms;
• trade unions;
• political parties;
• international organisations such as the United Nations, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as the Red Cross;
• financial journals and newspapers.