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BSc Mathematics and Economics with a Placement Year

  • UCAS code
    GL12
  • Typical offer
    ABC
  • Year of entry
    2023/24
  • Course duration
    Full Time:  4 Years
  • Year of entry
    2023/24
  • Course duration
    Full Time:  4 Years

Expand your knowledge across two complementary disciplines and develop in-demand skills on our BSc Mathematics and Economics with a Placement Year course.

This flexible course will prepare you for a multitude of careers in growing industries, allowing you to study to your strengths and discover new interests. You’ll develop your skills in mathematics and economics, as well as learn how to code.

This four-year degree includes an integrated, year-long work placement, allowing you to graduate with experience in the industry.

Grow in confidence as a mathematician


Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and become a part of a supportive, interactive, and accomplished learning community.

Taught by expert staff with extensive teaching, research, and consultancy experience, you’ll work collaboratively across a range of topics in pure and applied mathematics. Modules are informed by our world-leading research, and include areas such as:
  • calculus
  • analysis
  • linear algebra
  • differential equations
  • numerical analysis.
Your second year will feature a skills module, which is designed to improve your transferrable skills and enhance your employability.

Exploring economics

Economics skills can help you progress into a range of sectors such as business, finance, and marketing.

With support from the Department of Economics, you will gain a thorough understanding of both microeconomics and macroeconomics, with a choice between econometrics or economic theory in your second year.

We pride ourselves in our high-quality teaching, which will be delivered in a range of approaches, including:
  • lectures
  • group tutorials
  • group presentations
  • open debate.
Placement Year

This degree includes an integrated, year-long, paid industrial placement between your second and final year.

We offer a variety of placements in areas such as finance, logistics, and technology, and across a range of national and international organisations, such as Microsoft, IBM, SAP and the NHS.

Our dedicated placements officer can provide advice and support to find your ideal placement, as well as developing your CV and interview skills.

You can also undertake summer placements throughout your degree if you wish too.

Visit the Important Information page for more details on securing and completing a placement year.

Shaping your degree in BSc Mathematics and Economics

In the final year of your degree, you will be able to explore areas that interest you most in greater depth.

Alongside either an economics dissertation or a mathematical research project, you will choose from a range of optional modules, covering topics such as: business, financial forecasting, econometric methods and applied stochastic processes.

Support across your studies

Support for the transition to university-level mathematics will be provided through weekly drop-in sessions, and our peer-assisted learning scheme.

You will also be encouraged to get involved with the Department’s Staff Student Forums and the Student Teaching and Learning Group.

Study abroad


With support and guidance from the University, you can choose to spend two weeks, a term, or an academic year of your degree studying abroad.

Visit the Study Abroad website for more information about the possibilities and benefits of studying abroad.

Overview

Expand your knowledge across two complementary disciplines and develop in-demand skills on our BSc Mathematics and Economics with a Placement Year course.

This flexible course will prepare you for a multitude of careers in growing industries, allowing you to study to your strengths and discover new interests. You’ll develop your skills in mathematics and economics, as well as learn how to code.

This four-year degree includes an integrated, year-long work placement, allowing you to graduate with experience in the industry.

Grow in confidence as a mathematician


Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and become a part of a supportive, interactive, and accomplished learning community.

Taught by expert staff with extensive teaching, research, and consultancy experience, you’ll work collaboratively across a range of topics in pure and applied mathematics. Modules are informed by our world-leading research, and include areas such as:
  • calculus
  • analysis
  • linear algebra
  • differential equations
  • numerical analysis.
Your second year will feature a skills module, which is designed to improve your transferrable skills and enhance your employability.

Exploring economics

Economics skills can help you progress into a range of sectors such as business, finance, and marketing.

With support from the Department of Economics, you will gain a thorough understanding of both microeconomics and macroeconomics, with a choice between econometrics or economic theory in your second year.

We pride ourselves in our high-quality teaching, which will be delivered in a range of approaches, including:
  • lectures
  • group tutorials
  • group presentations
  • open debate.
Placement Year

This degree includes an integrated, year-long, paid industrial placement between your second and final year.

We offer a variety of placements in areas such as finance, logistics, and technology, and across a range of national and international organisations, such as Microsoft, IBM, SAP and the NHS.

Our dedicated placements officer can provide advice and support to find your ideal placement, as well as developing your CV and interview skills.

You can also undertake summer placements throughout your degree if you wish too.

Visit the Important Information page for more details on securing and completing a placement year.

Learning

Shaping your degree in BSc Mathematics and Economics

In the final year of your degree, you will be able to explore areas that interest you most in greater depth.

Alongside either an economics dissertation or a mathematical research project, you will choose from a range of optional modules, covering topics such as: business, financial forecasting, econometric methods and applied stochastic processes.

Support across your studies

Support for the transition to university-level mathematics will be provided through weekly drop-in sessions, and our peer-assisted learning scheme.

You will also be encouraged to get involved with the Department’s Staff Student Forums and the Student Teaching and Learning Group.

Study abroad


With support and guidance from the University, you can choose to spend two weeks, a term, or an academic year of your degree studying abroad.

Visit the Study Abroad website for more information about the possibilities and benefits of studying abroad.

Entry requirements A Level ABC

Select Reading as your firm choice on UCAS and we'll guarantee you a place even if you don't quite meet your offer. For details, see our firm choice scheme.

Typical offer

ABC with an A in Maths, and if you place us as your Firm choice we will accept you with one grade lower than this, including accepting a B in Maths at A-level (e.g BBC with Maths at B or ABD with Maths at either A or B).

If you are studying an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) in addition to your A levels and achieve a B in the EPQ we will accept ACC at A level with an A in Mathematics. If you place us as Firm choice we will accept BCC with a B in Mathematics alongside a B in the EPQ.

International Baccalaureate

30 points overall including 6 in Maths at higher level. If you place us as your Firm choice we will accept you with 28 points overall including 5 in Maths at higher level.

Extended Project Qualification

In recognition of the excellent preparation that the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) provides to students for University study, we can now include achievement in the EPQ as part of a formal offer.

English language requirements

IELTS 6.5, with no component below 5.5

For information on other English language qualifications, please visit our international student pages.

Alternative entry requirements for International and EU students

For country specific entry requirements look at entry requirements by country.

International Foundation Programme

If you are an international or EU student and do not meet the requirements for direct entry to your chosen degree you can join the University of Reading’s International Foundation Programme. Successful completion of this 1 year programme guarantees you a place on your chosen undergraduate degree. English language requirements start as low as IELTS 4.5 depending on progression degree and start date.

  • Learn more about our International Foundation programme

Pre-sessional English language programme

If you need to improve your English language score you can take a pre-sessional English course prior to entry onto your degree.

  • Find out the English language requirements for our courses and our pre-sessional English programme

Structure

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
  • Year 4

Core modules include:

  • Calculus
  • Foundations of mathematics
  • Introductory macroeconomics
  • Introductory microeconomics
  • Introductory quantitative methods in economics and business 1
  • Linear algebra

Optional modules include:  

  • Economic policy and social problems 
  • Globalisation and the history of western capitalism
  • Introduction to economic institutions and policy 
  • The economics of climate change

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Core modules include:

  • Differential equations
  • Real analysis I
  • Intermediate macroeconomics
  • Intermediate microeconomics

Optional modules include:

  • Professional skills for mathematicians
  • Mathematical programming
  • The science of climate change
  • Economics theory
  • Introductory econometrics
  • Summer placement
  • Numerical analysis
Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Core modules include:

  • Industrial placement year
Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Core modules include:

  • Advanced macroeconomics
  • Advanced microeconomics
  • Mathematics project or peer-assisted learning or economics dissertation

Optional modules include:

  • Applied stochastic processes
  • Calculus of variations
  • Cryptography and error-correcting codes
  • International economics
  • Money and banking

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Fees

New UK/Republic of Ireland students: £9,250

New international students: £24,500

UK/Republic of Ireland fee changes

UK/Republic of Ireland undergraduate tuition fees are regulated by the UK government. These fees are subject to parliamentary approval and any decision on raising the tuition fees cap for new UK students would require the formal approval of both Houses of Parliament before it becomes law.

EU student fees

With effect from 1 August 2021, new EU students will pay international tuition fees. For exceptions, please read the UK government’s guidance for EU students.

Additional costs

Some courses will require additional payments for field trips and extra resources. You will also need to budget for your accommodation and living costs. See our information on living costs for more details.

Placement year fees

If you spend a full year on placement, you will only pay 15% of your usual tuition fee for that year. For more information, please see our fees and funding pages or contact placements@reading.ac.uk.

Financial support for your studies

You may be eligible for a scholarship or bursary to help pay for your study. Students from the UK may also be eligible for a student loan to help cover these costs. See our fees and funding information for more information on what's available.

Careers

Career paths and support 

Your mathematical and economics knowledge combined with computing, teamwork, and presentation skills will make you highly desirable to a range of employers.

As a graduate, you could work in a mathematical or statistical role in the public or private sectors, such as: the Office for National Statistics; various health authorities; in commerce; or information technology.

Utilising your economics skills, you could potentially undertake a role with the Government Economic Service or in a consultancy such as PwC or KPMG.

You could move into other related careers, such as:

  • accountancy
  • financial analysis
  • engineering
  • modelling
  • actuarial work.

Alternatively, you can develop your skills further by moving into research, teaching training or postgraduate studies, or you can move into a range of other sectors, such as publishing, marketing, or PR.

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We make contextual offers for all our courses.

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