Economics (with integrated Foundation)

The University of Buckingham is:

• Home of the two-year degree, the University of Buckingham, based in the South East of England, is ranked 6th for Student Satisfaction in the UK (National Student Survey, 2020).

• We are proudly independent and not-for-profit, and offer courses in Allied Health, Business, Computing, Education, Humanities, Law, Medicine, Psychology and Security and Intelligence. We are one of the few universities in the UK that offer September and January start dates for almost all of our courses.

• Based in Buckingham on a riverside campus, we are only 20 minutes’ from Milton Keynes central station and a short drive from Bicester, Aylesbury, Banbury and Northampton. There is free parking on-site and we are within easy reach of London and Oxford.

• Our award-winning small class tutorials ensure every student is known by name and supported throughout their studies, including by dedicated personal tutors.

• As pioneers of the two-year degree, we offer a condensed version of the traditional three-year degree, meaning you can gain a full honours degree and complete your studies a whole year earlier. Alternatively, you can complete both your undergraduate and master’s degree with us in just three years: saving you time and money.

The 3 year BSc Economics (with integrated Foundation) degree is designed for students who can benefit from an introduction to enable them to study at undergraduate level. The first year of the programme provides a foundation to the more specialist ‘core’ subjects delivered in years two and three.
If you see yourself working as an advisor in a national or international agency, as a teacher or a journalist, or if you simply wish to keep your options open before going on to a career in business or the professions, the economics programme will be an attractive alternative. In this programme you have an enhanced opportunity of studying problems of economic policy. The problem of achieving macroeconomic and exchange rate stability has been of great importance to many countries in recent years for example, while microeconomic issues such as the allocation of resources to health or to raising environmental quality continue to figure prominently in public discussion. An economics degree gives you a perfect opportunity to study these issues. It also permits you to take modules in politics, law and the humanities so as to broaden your perspective further.
This is the 2-year, or 2-year (+ 1 term) format of the BSc degree. You get the same number of teaching weeks as the 3-year degree, but complete the syllabus in a shorter time by working an extra summer term. This is for those who want to complete more quickly, and so begin their career, or progress earlier to further training or a higher degree. For the traditional 3-year format of this degree, with summer break, see BSc Economics 3 Years | September.

Course Modules

English and Study Skills,
Life and Institutions,
Critical Thinking,
English for Academic Studies,
International Studies
Research Skills
Econometrics,
The Economics of Europe,
The Economics of the Labour Market,
History of Economic Thought,
Industrial Organisation and Strategy,
International Economics,
Introduction to Business,
Introduction to Management,
Issues in Developing Economies and the MENA Region,
Legal Economics 1,
Legal Economics 2,
Macroeconomic Policy,
Macroeconomic Theory,
Mathematics for Economists,
Microeconomic Policy,
Microeconomic Theory,
Money, Banking and Financial Markets,
Principles of Macroeconomics,
Principles of Microeconomics,
Public Sector Economics,
Quantitative Methods 1,
Quantitative Methods 2,
Regulation and Privatisation,
Statistics for Business and Economics,
Welfare Economics.