3-Term Pathway - Foundation Certificate in Social Sciences - Continue to Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Economics (Placement Year)

Program Description For students who've finished high school but don’t meet the entry requirements for university, a Foundation Certificate can help them gain entry to an undergraduate degree. After completing this pathway option students qualify for progression to the 1st year of an undergraduate degree at the University of Essex.

A student’s course length is determined mainly by their English language level (UKVI IELTS score). Students on all course lengths take a set of common or similar modules to gain a solid base of skills for university. Students taking a course longer than 2 terms, will take additional modules designed to improve one or more of their English language level, academic skills, and basic knowledge of particular subjects.

Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Economics

At Essex they have a unique strength in public policy measures to stimulate and manage the economy, including the behavioral techniques to get messages across. Students could combine study of health economics with public economics and development economics to get a broad view of how one can respond to a threat such as Covid-19, balancing home and global needs.

Economic recovery is probably one the most pressing and urgent challenges right now and studying an economics degree gives students the unique tools to take on this challenge, find a solution, and improve well-being.

Studying economics provides students with a greater understanding of the world around them. It teaches them how the economy functions, how people make decisions, why an economic crisis occurs and what the different solutions are. Economics at Essex is not only about stocks, shares and financial markets; it is concerned with the material wellbeing of human societies.

This course gives students a thorough introduction to all aspects of economics, including micro and macroeconomics, and qualitative and mathematical research methods. They can examine the decisions of individuals, the strategies of firms and the policies of individuals to understand and challenge the standard rules of economics.

BSc Economics offers students a large degree of flexibility, giving them freedom to focus on a broad range of areas which inspire them. Students will study all of the major mainstream fields, but the Department has particular strengths in these areas:

• Game theory and strategic interactions • Theoretical and applied econometrics • Labor economics

Economics at Essex is ranked 9th in the UK for overall student satisfaction (NSS 2020) and they are top 5 in the UK for research, with over 90% of their research rated as “world-leading” or “internationally excellent” (REF 2014).