MA (Hons) Economics
Course Overview
This flexible Economics degree from Heriot-Watt's Edinburgh Business School equips you with the skills to analyze and answer the big questions facing individuals, organizations, and societies. Your learning is driven by globally active researchers, ensuring a real-world focus on issues like poverty, globalization, and the environment. The program is designed for high employability, with a degree structure that allows you to tailor your studies to your specific interests.
Key Program Highlights
- Globally-informed curriculum taught by active researchers tackling real-world economic issues
- Ranked 3rd in the UK for student satisfaction (NSS 2019) and among the top institutions for Economics
- Excellent graduate outcomes, with 90% of alumni in work or further study within six months
- Develops highly sought-after quantitative, analytical, and communication skills
- Flexible degree structure allows you to tailor your studies to your career interests
Course Overview
This flexible Economics degree from Heriot-Watt's Edinburgh Business School equips you with the skills to analyze and answer the big questions facing individuals, organizations, and societies. Your learning is driven by globally active researchers, ensuring a real-world focus on issues like poverty, globalization, and the environment. The program is designed for high employability, with a degree structure that allows you to tailor your studies to your specific interests.
Key Program Highlights
- Globally-informed curriculum taught by active researchers tackling real-world economic issues
- Ranked 3rd in the UK for student satisfaction (NSS 2019) and among the top institutions for Economics
- Excellent graduate outcomes, with 90% of alumni in work or further study within six months
- Develops highly sought-after quantitative, analytical, and communication skills
- Flexible degree structure allows you to tailor your studies to your career interests
Requirements
Modules
- The Economy
- Critical Academic Skills
- Management in a Global Context
- Introduction to Accounting
- Introduction to Economic and Financial Analysis
- Sustainable Business
- Becoming a Professional
- Introductory Finance
- Intermediate Economics 1: Theory and Techniques
- Introduction to Data Analysis and Probability
- Contemporary Economic Policy and Institutions
- Intermediate Economics 2
- Statistical Techniques
- Fundamentals of Finance
- Personal Finance and Investment Ethics
- Social and Environmental Accounting
- Financial Markets Theory
- Financial Accounting
- Management Accounting in Organisations
- Introduction to Public Choice and Welfare Economics
- Advanced Economics 1
- Introductory Econometrics
- Games and Behaviour
- Econometrics Project
- Introduction to Commercial Law
- Corporate Financial Theory
- Fundamentals of Financial Technology
- Intermediate Financial Accounting
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Marketing and Consumer Law
- Managing Corporate Value
- Contextualising the World Economy
- Applied Financial Modelling in Python
- Financial Derivatives
- Advanced Economic Policy 1
- Advanced Economic Policy 2
- Economics Dissertation 1
- International Entrepreneurship
- Risk Management and Derivatives Applications
- Empirical Industrial Organisation
- Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
- Agency Theory and Corporate Governance
- Economics Dissertation 2
- Labour Economics
- Development Economics
- Contemporary Issues in Finance
- Banking
