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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Cambridge Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
3 Year
A Business with Economics degree combines the principles of business management with the study of economic theory and practice. This degree equips you with the skills and knowledge to understanding business operations, decision making processes and economic factors which influence the strategies and their outcomes. By studying Business with Economics at ARU Cambridge, you’ll be looking at the ‘bigger picture’. Together, we’ll explore accounting and mathematics, statistics and econometrics, micro- and macroeconomics. But we’ll also study business more broadly, covering topics such as project management, sustainability, the EU economy and international trade.Here at ARU, you won’t just learn in the classroom. There’s the chance to take economics out of the classroom, debating big ideas such as the minimum wage, capitalism and Brexit in our popular Economics in the Pub sessions. With an eye on the future, you can also choose to take an optional placement year and add valuable work experience to your CV. As the course progresses, you’ll establish areas of interest that you can develop in your final project. You’ll understand how economics and business, put together, influence organisational’ behaviour and performance – and ultimately impact on all our lives.
This module presents a fusion between the philosophies which underlie marketing, with a strong emphasis of integrating digital and traditional concepts and the real life application of marketing across a variety of sectoral contexts. You'll examine the core marketing concept of customer value and the interplay between marketing and sustainability and the ethical challenges and critiques of modern marketing. You'll gain a wide range of knowledge across a breadth of sectors and be able to adapt these to whatever career or future research you choose.
You'll explore the factors that affect business, from a mostly external perspective, including elements of globalisation and international business and the fundamental skills needed in the world of business. Political, Economics, Social, Legal, Ecological and Technological factors will be examined in the macro business environment and how these interact in a competitive environment with globalisation, technological and social change to create complex strategic options for organisations. You will also explore in some detail the concept of sustainability and introductory economics.
As an introduction to a broad range of civil legal issues, you'll get an insight and appreciation of the various ways in which the law impacts on the world of commerce and our everyday life. The module provides a foundation across a broad range of fundamental legal principles and concepts of the English Legal System. The rights and obligations of legal entities/individuals under the Law of Contract and the Law of Tort will also be examined.
Finance and business information is the lifeblood of any organisations operations and decisions. You'll work with data and case studies from organisations, meet with businesses to understand the practical use this key information is put to and present your decisions on a going concern or start-up. As you present your analysis of key information and conclusions to other stakeholders, you'll develop your persuasion and negotiation skills.
You'll be introduced to a range of organisational behaviour issues that you may encounter in your career and be provided with evidence-informed analyses of ways in which culture, leadership, structure and motivation affect workers and workplaces. This foundation enables you to analyse the human side of management and diagnose problems affecting organisations both independently and as part of a group. You'll have the opportunity to take managerial, critical, symbolic-interactivist and feminist perspectives to business issues and organisational behaviour related theories, models and concepts to build your social capital and critical analytical skills.
The aim of this module is to introduce the tools and concepts necessary to perform empirical research projects based on data analysis, from a practical perspective. You'll get a sound understanding of how to ask questions of data to look at the existence of statistical relationships among different characteristics or variables. Most questions will be on the possible existence of statistical relationships among different characteristics or variables in the data sets. As datasets are most often samples of an original population, you'll focus on how to extend empirical findings from the sampling data to statistical statements about the populations, how to collect, manage and prepare secondary data for a research project and using the econometrics software Stata.
In this module you'll build your knowledge of those factors affecting firms and countries performance. You'll discuss the theoretical explanations offered by economists and social scientists and examines the writing of leading experts. By the end of the modules you'll be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of alternative explanations of firms strategies, performance and countries economic growth and development. Within Micro Economics you'll look at the way in which varying decision-making units make decisions, the fundamental concepts that underpin these and the firms' input and output decisions based on profit maximisation and cost minimization in different market sessions. You'll explore customer choice based on utility maximisation and how it applies to the labour market as well as game theory approaches and asymmetric information problems, such as adverse selection, moral hazard and principle-agent problems.
Project management is a key skill for any future professional. This module focuses on providing a sound basis for managing or working on projects. In essence, the concept of managing a project hinging on one quite basic principle, managing the triangle of: quality of the project outcomes, cost and time. The module covers: Project Management Body of Knowledge; the importance of stakeholder and risk management; scheduling and costing; monitoring and controlling techniques, time management and resource optimisation; improving the success of projects; and the principles of agile project management.
Ruskin Modules are designed to prepare our students for a complex, challenging and changing future. These interdisciplinary modules provide the opportunity to further broaden your perspectives, develop your intellectual flexibility and creativity. You will work with others from different disciplines to enable you to reflect critically on the limitations of a single discipline to solve wider societal concerns. You will be supported to create meaningful connections across disciplines to apply new knowledge to tackle complex problems and key challenges. Ruskin Modules are designed to grow your confidence, seek and maximise opportunities to realise your potential to give you a distinctive edge and enhance your success in the workplace.
Entrepreneurs are people who identify and exploit opportunities for new products, marketing or processes to generate economic and social value. Entrepreneurship is not just about new venture creation, it involves using creative or innovative ideas to recognise and develop solutions. You'll work as part of a team over 3 rounds of activity (such as gamification, experiential learning and simulation) to focus on the identification of an opportunity, the creation of a product or service and pitching a concept to work as part of the team to develop your skills and collaborate with organisations and guest speakers.
You'll apply economic theories and methods to current economic or socioeconomic policy issues and think ?outside the box? when addressing these issues. You'll gain an understanding of the original formulation of fundamental analytical and technical methods and theoretical concepts in economics as well as an understanding of the continuing relevance of these methods and concepts. It will provide you with the awareness of the socio-economics issues and allows you to explore economic ideas to inform your participation in discussions and debates on economic affairs of today. You'll engage in informed discussion with specialists and non-specialists alike on issues currently reviving widespread attention in the media and public debate generally.
You'll gain a wide understanding of the theory and practice of financial economics at an advanced level and the importance of it's application. Asset markets with asset prices and microstructure is introduced to provide a rigorous grounding of the financial asset market. Market efficiency and decision making under uncertainty are thoroughly discussed. You'll discuss and empirically appraise the Capital Asset Pricing and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory models alongside discussion on Securities, especially equity and bond. This module is designed for you to be able to pursue further development of economics in financial view. It also supports you studying for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CBI).
You'll develop understanding of the shift towards more environmentally, socially and economically responsible business practice and in particular focus on the drivers behind this shift; including an understanding of the sustainable development goals and growing business arguments for including a consideration of sustainability in all business and management practice. The module promotes a personal approach to the issues of sustainability and personal and social responsibility. The module includes an authentic assessment where you'll be diagnosing, designing and evaluating an environmental management plan for your households or organisations, while reflecting on your personal responsibility and ethical behaviour.
You'll have the opportunity to bring together your learning on live brief assessments and be part of an interdisciplinary team addressing a current issue in business. You'll be presented with a current business issue and be required to research, analyse and evaluate the issue effectively as a team. You'll act as the expert in your field of study to bring the perspective of that specialty to a complex business problem. You'll identify the key problems and issues, conduct literature reviews, evaluate information, investigate and adopt suitable development methodologies, determine solutions, process data, critically appraise and present the findings of your project using a variety of media. You'll create a poster presentation on your project for your team to display, and answer questions on, to an audience of academics and employers at a poster presentation event. You'll write a group business report on the outcomes of your project, evidencing your recommendations alongside an individual piece of reflective work on how you approached the issue, worked successfully as a team member, conducted robust business research and developed sound conclusions and recommendations.
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