You will study a range of ideas relating to economics, finance and investments, which alongside the development of relevant skills and methods, enable you to better analyse and understand economic and financial issues.
The emphasis is on understanding the factors influencing consumption and production choices, including those made daily by those working in the financial sector, which is vitally important with today's highly financialised and globally interdependent economies.
As an Economics student, you’ll have access to our unique Trading Room facility. With 12 double-screen workstations, the room gives you a simulated experience of working in the fast-moving world of shares and trading. You can access sophisticated analysis tools and data on worldwide financial markets.
Finally, in your third semester, you’ll choose an experiential project. With the opportunity to use your skills in a real-world setting, you can choose from completing a consultancy experience project, an internship experience project, a business research project or a global experience project.
Nottingham Business School is a UK leader in financial and business education an Economics degree from NTU gives you the foundations and opportunities to pursue a wide range of exciting careers.
What you’ll gain from this degree?
- apply advanced economic concepts and techniques to analyse financial markets and instruments.
- synthesise and critique a range of methods employed in analysing investments in financial products.
- apply advanced economic concepts and techniques to analyse problems in scare resource allocation.
- synthesise and critique a range of economic ideas and methods relating to issues and problems in the allocation of scarce resources.
- develop a critical understanding of the role of the economics discipline in the global context.
- Understand the environmental, social, governance and ethical problems that may occur in the economics discipline and apply appropriate frameworks or professional codes to resolve such problems.
