Industrial Economics, BSc (Hons), with industry placement

In a competitive marketplace, companies must navigate challenges such as maintaining competitiveness, understanding regulatory effects on profit margins, innovation, and growth, and effectively managing risks. The BSc in Industrial Economics with Insurance addresses these issues by exploring the intricate relationships between economics and global business practices. Students will conduct in-depth analyses of company structures, markets, competitors, and the external economic environment. The program offers flexibility through optional modules, a four-year option with a placement year for real-world experience, and opportunities for international study at campuses in China, Malaysia, or partner institutions in Australia, Europe, and the USA. Graduates emerge with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to excel in business careers.The curriculum includes first-year core modules in microeconomics, macroeconomics, entrepreneurship, corporate strategy, organisational studies, business computing, and quantitative methods, plus one optional module. Second-year studies cover the economics of innovation, pricing, decision making, organisation, international firms, quantitative methods, and econometrics. The final year focuses on industrial economics, corporate restructuring, governance, and regulation.

During your first year, you will typically study core modules in microeconomics and macroeconomics, entrepreneurship, corporate strategy, organisational studies, business computing, and quantitative methods. You will also be able to choose one optional module from a range of business related subjects. Second-year studies typically include core modules in the economics of innovation, pricing and decision making, organisation, international firms, quantitative methods and econometrics. Your final year will incorporate industrial economics, corporate restructuring and governance, regulation and more.