4-Term Pathway - Foundation Certificate in Social Sciences - Continue to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Management Economics (Placement Year)

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 Arts (Honours) - Management Economics

Unlike conventional management courses, at Essex students analyze the economics of a business or organization and investigate how they operate and behave.

Students develop their abilities in economics and gain confidence in applying them to organizational management, as well as receiving expert training in quantitative research methods. Students gain a thorough understanding of how businesses function and develop their analytical, modelling and research skills through studying topics including:

• Managing people and practices • Marketing • Monopoly power and regulation • Applying economic techniques to managing new technologies • The impact of business decisions on products, prices, and social welfare

The Department is rated consistently highly for student satisfaction and is top 5 in the UK for research, with over 90% of their research rated as “world-leading” or “internationally excellent” (REF 2014).

Management economics gives students a valuable grounding in economics, with a particular focus on how companies work. They provide students with a greater understanding of how firms operate, teaching them how resources are allocated within a company, why a company is structured in a particular way, and how these structures affect the overall economy.