Our Programmes

An economics graduate from UNNC is highly sought after in the job market and is well-placed to progress to graduate study.

  • 88% of our undergraduates enter Masters courses, mainly overseas.
  • 71% of our undergraduates go to world top 100 universities, including Chicago, Oxford, LSE etc.

Our undergraduate programmes combine all of the core analytical and quantitative techniques required by modern economics graduates. By the time you graduate you will:

  • be familiar with advanced maths and econometrics, and key techniques that economists use in practice;
  • have essential skills in core disciplines of economics, such as microeconomics, macroeconomics and international trade;
  • have a sophisticated understanding of all the major sub-disciplines of economics, from financial and monetary economics to development, public and labour economics.

Undergraduate programmes 

BSc (Hons) Economics

BSc (Hons) International Economics and Trade

Postgraduate taught programmes 

MSc Finance and Investment (Economics, Money and Finance)

 

Prizes

The Nottingham School of Economics awards the following prizes to undergraduate students on an annual basis:

For first year students

  • Martin Totty Prize for Outstanding Achievement (UNUK campus)*
  • School Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Undergraduate Year 1 (1 for UNNC and 1 for UNMC campus)*
  • School Prize for Performance in Undergraduate Year 1 (up to 4 prizes across the 3 campuses)

For second year students

  • Martin Totty Prize for Outstanding Achievement (UNUK campus)*
  • School Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Undergraduate Year 2 (1 for UNNC and 1 for UNMC campus)*
  • School Prize for Performance in Undergraduate Year 2 (up to six prizes across 3 campuses)

For third year students

  • Martin Totty Prize for Outstanding Achievement (UNUK campus)*
  • Sir Clive Granger Prize for Outstanding Achievement (UNUK campus)*
  • School Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Undergraduate Final Year (1 for UNNC and 1 for UNMC campus)*
  • School Prize for Performance in Undergraduate Final Year (up to four prizes across 3 campuses)
  • Martin Totty Prize for Best Dissertation (any campus)*

In addition, the University will award the University Prize for Economics.

Prizes open to students in all years

  • Martin Totty Prize for Outstanding Entrepreneurship*
  • The Gainsborough Essay Prize*

Prizes marked with an * will be remunerated. Only first class students will be eligible for prizes. 

Our sponsors 

Martin Totty is a Nottingham Alumnus (Economics 1978) and Chief Executive of Barbon Insurance Group.

Sir Clive Granger is a former Nottingham Economics PhD Student and staff member who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2003.

The school is grateful to Mr Martin Totty and Lady Pat Granger for their generous sponsorship of prizes.

Previous winners

School of Economics 2015 Prize Winners