Industrial Economics with Insurance, BSc (Hons), with industry placement

Companies can maintain competitiveness in a saturated market by addressing regulatory influences on profit margins, innovation, and growth, as well as effective risk management. The BSc in Industrial Economics with Insurance equips students to explore these issues, providing insights into the intricate links between economics and global business. Students will conduct in-depth analyses of company structures, markets, competitors, and external economic factors, while tailoring their studies through optional modules and potentially enhancing their resumes with a work placement year in industry.The programme begins with core modules in microeconomics, macroeconomics, entrepreneurship, corporate strategy, organisational studies, business computing, and quantitative methods, plus an insurance and risk management module supported by the Centre for Risk, Banking and Financial Services. In the 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.

Your first year typically includes core modules in microeconomics and macroeconomics, entrepreneurship, corporate strategy, organisational studies, business computing, and quantitative methods. You will also normally take an additional module in insurance and risk management, including specialist content provided by our Centre for Risk, Banking and Financial Services. 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.