The Economics and Management degree course at Oxford examines key global issues: resource allocation and management, the function and framework of organisations and economies, and policy- and decision-making processes and strategies.
Subject Intake:
Four
Course Duration:
Three Years (BA)
This is not a Business Studies degree. In this Economics degree, you will be taught through traditional academic means, including lectures, classes and seminars, and college tutorials. You will be required to read widely, write and discuss essays regularly, and work through problem sets.
In the first year you will build a foundation of knowledge, studying General Management, Introductory Economics and Financial Management. In subsequent years there are a few core compulsory papers, but there is a lot of scope to choose options and topics that are of particular interest to you as an individual.
Being part of a large, diverse community. The degree shares common interests with many of our other degrees (for example with Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), but also with Mathematics), which makes for lively discussion and debate.
High achievement. Merton's finalists often attain excellent marks, and invariably achieve at least a good 2:1 standard in their degree. Each year a solid proportion of our first-year students attain Distinction in their first-year exams (Prelims).
Merton also offers several postgraduate Management and Economics courses (such as the Master of Business Administration, and the DPhil in Economics), enabling our undergraduate students to interact and network with experienced people in similar fields.
Excellent resources: the Library is excellently endowed in both management and economics texts and other resources, following a donation from old Mertonians working in the City.
Merton Economics and Management students are always invited to our PPE talks and events, which expands the opportunities available to them.
All core economics papers are taught in-house at Merton.
At Merton, teaching in our Oxford Economics course is led by Dr Bassel Tarbush, and in Management by Dr Kate Blackmon, with support from other college lecturers including Dr Taheya Tarannum. Teaching is coordinated across the University incorporating all colleges, creating a collaborative learning environment where students have access to all areas, topics and academics (they are not constrained to their own college’s areas of expertise). Both the University’s Department of Economics and the Saïd Business School offer a wide range of optional topics to all students, run by specialist experts in each area.
