BUSINESS STUDIES AND
ECONOMICS BA (HONS)
This degree is about enabling you to acquire the
skills and experience necessary to flourish in a
challenging business environment, in parallel with
developing an understanding of economic behaviour
and the economic environment. Through the
business studies component of your degree, you will
encounter a variety of practice-based topics across
a range of business and management disciplines. The
focus of the economics-based elements will help
highlight the benefits to managers of developing a
greater understanding of the economic environment
within which organisations function.
FINANCE AND ECONOMICS BA (HONS)
This degree is about enabling you to develop the
knowledge and skills that will support you in
becoming an effective financial manager, in parallel
with developing an understanding of economic
behaviour and the economic environment in which
organisations operate. A key focus of the
programme is to enable you to develop elements of
the range of competencies that are traditionally
provided through an accounting degree. The focus
of the economics-based elements will help highlight
the benefits to managers of developing a greater
understanding of the economic environment within
which organisations function. The programme will
provide you with experience and knowledge
relevant to a career in the accountancy profession;
however, it is also well-suited as a foundation for a
career in a wider range of management fields.
ECONOMICS COURSE
OPTIONS
• Business Studies and Economics
• Finance and Economics
TYPICAL OFFER
(Individual offers may vary):
• A levels: A levels: 280 to 320 UCAS
Tariff Points (Points may be counted
from an AS level or Extended Project)
• BTEC: DDM - DMM
• GCSEs: English Language and
Mathematics at grade C or above
• Entry: See pages 166 to 169 for
general entrance requirements and
mature entry procedures
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