Industrial Economics with Insurance with Placement Year (Hons) University of Nottingham

Overview

This BSc Industrial Economics with Insurance with Placement Year (Hons) offered by University of Nottingham bridges economics and risk, combining rigorous economic analysis with specialist knowledge of risk and insurance. You’ll explore how firms make decisions under uncertainty, how insurance markets work, and how risk is managed across industries and economies.

By undertaking a placement year, you’ll gain practical experience in a professional environment, helping you build skills, confidence, and industry connections.

Careers 

They actively seek to develop your practical business, leadership and management skills through a range of professional development programmes.

The employer programme enables you to network with top employers throughout your degree, with many of these companies choosing to sponsor prizes for high-performing students.

Increasingly, graduates are required to be cloud and data-ready for the workplace with 66% of employers wanting to see graduates achieve professional qualifications as well as their main degree (CMI 21st Century leaders report). 

The school works with some of the world’s leading business software providers including SAP and Microsoft, integrating their systems into the courses, as well as offering the option to take their globally recognised professional digital qualifications alongside your course. The Digital Centre of Excellence will support you so that you can develop the digital skills necessary to pursue your chosen career and stand out to future employers.

This course is available as a three-year programme, or a four-year programme including a placement year, giving you a competitive edge and helping you stand out to employers.