Economics and Finance

Economics and finance together provide a powerful lens on how resources, money, and decisions shape the world. Economics asks fundamental questions about how individuals, firms, and governments make choices under scarcity, and how those choices aggregate into the patterns we see in markets, employment, growth, and inequality. Finance applies related tools to the analysis of investment, risk, capital, and the institutions through which money flows through the economy.

Studied together, they give you both the broad analytical framework of economics and the specialised technical knowledge of finance.

This three-year programme at Sheffield Hallam University develops your understanding of both disciplines in depth. You will explore how consumers, firms, governments, and societies choose to use scarce resources, learning how economic systems operate and how they are shaped by government and monetary policy. In the finance strand you will study investment analysis, financial markets, corporate finance, and risk management, with access to the university's Financial Trading Floor equipped with Bloomberg Terminals.

You will also benefit from Bloomberg for Education finance courses, giving you exposure to the tools and datasets used by practitioners in the financial industry. The programme includes a foundation year for those who benefit from additional preparation, a sandwich placement year to give you professional experience, and embedded work placement opportunities throughout.

Graduates with a combined economics and finance background are well placed for careers in banking, investment management, financial analysis, economic consultancy, central banking, insurance, government treasury roles, and the full range of financial services. The quantitative skills and analytical rigour of the degree are also valued in data analysis, management consultancy, and technology roles with a financial dimension. Many graduates go on to postgraduate study in economics, finance, financial mathematics, or an MBA, building on the technical foundations the degree provides.