[jabed786]

(Original post by keekee107)
As I know it the 'econ' stands for economic and social studies so:

BA(Economic and Social Studies) Politics or whatever

Oh right, it still sounds a little lame
Why couldnt it just be BA Politics or BA Economics. I know I sound a bit like a degree snob or something but at the end of the day employers might think it is bit of a doss degree due to the Social Studies.

[keekee107]

(Original post by jabed786)
Oh right, it still sounds a little lame
Why couldnt it just be BA Politics or BA Economics. I know I sound a bit like a degree snob or something but at the end of the day employers might think it is bit of a doss degree due to the Social Studies.

It's to do with the school that economics belongs to - Social Sciences. All your free choices will basically be them. But yes.... it's not the greatest thing in my opinion either (I do accounting and finance and it really irritates me cos I prefer business and the business school yet I can't choose my free choices from there and I have a BAEcon rather than Bsc...) but yeah... Apparently the BAEcon is supposed to make no real difference with employers. It's a large programme and they recognise it just the same as they would a BA or whatever (just like some of the law ones and things have strange names) ... so I wouldn't worry about it.

[Bfly]

When you greaduate your certificate will say
BA (Economics and Social Studies) "Specialism"

It is quite confusing but you forget about it once you start specilalising. It's just the first year, you have to take compulsary units is Sociology, Politics, Maths + Economics which is the 'social studies' bit. It's basically a wide programme where you can choose modules from lots of different disciplines - economics, economic history, accounting and finance, criminology, politics etc. It's quite good in the sense you can change your mind about what area you want to specialise in after taking the units in first/second year even.

[Amit92]

BEconSc Economics is all FULL...they offered me the chance to switch in January...why didn't I switch!!

[theseeker]

Will they offer to switch?

[Pulp]

I wrote this the other day about my experience on the BA Econ. If you can't be bothered to read it, the summary is this: It's absolute ****e, I changed my course and am immeasurably happy. By all means come to Manchester, it's a great city, but avoid the School of Social Sciences like the plague.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show...0&postcount=15

[theseeker]

(Original post by Pulp)
I wrote this the other day about my experience on the BA Econ. If you can't be bothered to read it, the summary is this: It's absolute ****e, I changed my course and am immeasurably happy. By all means come to Manchester, it's a great city, but avoid the School of Social Sciences like the plague.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show...p;postcount=15

Can someone change from BA to BSc?

[Ansi]

(Original post by theseeker)
Can someone change from BA to BSc?

Well, I'm starting BA Econ this Sep. and after reading some of the posts in this thread, I'm wondering the same. As far as i'm concerned, It shouldn't be a problem if you have a A in maths, because the only difference between BSc and BAEcon is that BSc requires A in maths.

Could I get a confirmation of that of someone hos either switched to BSc from BAEcon or knows something about the courses???

[Ansi]

(Original post by Pulp)
I wrote this the other day about my experience on the BA Econ. If you can't be bothered to read it, the summary is this: It's absolute ****e, I changed my course and am immeasurably happy. By all means come to Manchester, it's a great city, but avoid the School of Social Sciences like the plague.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show...0&postcount=15

Figured your probably the person to ask this...

I'm starting BA Econ this Sep. and after reading some of the posts in this thread, I'm wondering the same. As far as i'm concerned, It shouldn't be a problem if you have a A in maths, because the only difference between BSc and BAEcon is that BSc requires A in maths.

Could I get a confirmation of that of someone hos either switched to BSc from BAEcon or knows something about the courses???

[iamlovinit05]

(Original post by Ansi)
Well, I'm starting BA Econ this Sep. and after reading some of the posts in this thread, I'm wondering the same. As far as i'm concerned, It shouldn't be a problem if you have a A in maths, because the only difference between BSc and BAEcon is that BSc requires A in maths.

Could I get a confirmation of that of someone hos either switched to BSc from BAEcon or knows something about the courses???

I offered BAecon, but have emailed the school and have since changed it to BSc. So yea, its possible

[Origami Bullets]

(Original post by Ansi)
Well, I'm starting BA Econ this Sep. and after reading some of the posts in this thread, I'm wondering the same. As far as i'm concerned, It shouldn't be a problem if you have a A in maths, because the only difference between BSc and BAEcon is that BSc requires A in maths.

Could I get a confirmation of that of someone hos either switched to BSc from BAEcon or knows something about the courses???

I'm doing the BAEcon. BAEcon is a much more general social science course, where (in first year) you will have only 20 credits of Economics, 20 credits of Maths, and 80 credits of other subjects, like politics, criminology, social anthropology and history. In subsequent years, you will do increasing amounts of economics, but if I remember rightly it's never more than 80 credits of economics, with 40 credits of other things.

The BSc is a much more traditional economics course, which is almost entirely economics from the start.

[Luxray]

(Original post by Origami Bullets)
I'm doing the BAEcon. BAEcon is a much more general social science course, where (in first year) you will have only 20 credits of Economics, 20 credits of Maths, and 80 credits of other subjects, like politics, criminology, social anthropology and history. In subsequent years, you will do increasing amounts of economics, but if I remember rightly it's never more than 80 credits of economics, with 40 credits of other things.

The BSc is a much more traditional economics course, which is almost entirely economics from the start.

You're on the BA Econ?
What are you studying

Also I would like to add that it is possible to do 100 credits of economics in second year (and obviously in third year as well). For example you have maxed out your 80 credits of economics doing macro, business econ etc. But if you choose to do the 'developing economics' module which is still an ECON module and is found under the 'economics stream', you can class it as a 'development studies' stream since the module is listed there as well. So that means you can get away with doing 90 credits of econ. Hope that made sense. I did 100 in my second year of ECON modules.

Furthermore I would like to add an BA Econ can become just as economics orientated as the BSc version. There isn't much difference from the first year between the two courses anyway (I think they can do a 'MATH' module and have a couple of restrictions and different modules available but really not much difference) but in the second year a person is capable of doing the exact modules as someone in the BSc. My friend is on the BA Econ and she's been doing all the same modules as someone in the BSc. You just need to have an a-level in maths. In fact its possible for a BA Econ students to have more economics than a BSc student, provided the BSc opts for other social sciences in her spare credits whereas the BA chooses the econ modules.

If you have anyone has questions regardining specifically the Economics specialisation in BAEcon then you can ask me if you want to. I'm going into my third year in September.

[Origami Bullets]

(Original post by Luxray)
You're on the BA Econ?
What are you studying

Politics

[Luxray]

(Original post by Ansi)
Figured your probably the person to ask this...

I'm starting BA Econ this Sep. and after reading some of the posts in this thread, I'm wondering the same. As far as i'm concerned, It shouldn't be a problem if you have a A in maths, because the only difference between BSc and BAEcon is that BSc requires A in maths.

Could I get a confirmation of that of someone hos either switched to BSc from BAEcon or knows something about the courses???

Don't be too concerned. Sure there are a few problems in the course but all you have to be is pro-active. You just need to book appointments for one-to-one help with lecturers/tutors if you ever get stuck. And join your facebook group. Someone in the first few months of uni will make one where you can discuss things with your peers. Its really helpful. I would have been lost without mine during exam season when I couldn't do certain algebra type questions.

People need to remember that the true gem of the BA Econ is the flexibility yet ability to become very similar to the BSc if you wanted it to be (provided like you said, have an a-level maths). Both courses are in the same school so suffer the same supposed problems and share most of the same benefits. So switching to the BSc will provide only one key benefit... having 'BSc' in your name, not BA.

As someone mentioned it is quite easy to transfer if you have an a-level in maths but do it asap.

[Luxray]

(Original post by Origami Bullets)
Politics

Oh wait I think I asked you this a couple months back maybe.
Are you part of the facebook support group for 2013? don't worry I'm not going to stalk you, just wanted to know what you think about it.

[Origami Bullets]

(Original post by Luxray)
Oh wait I think I asked you this a couple months back maybe.
Are you part of the facebook support group for 2013? don't worry I'm not going to stalk you, just wanted to know what you think about it.

Is it this one? If so, yes, but I've never used it. As far as I can see, it's just turned into a load of advertising

[Luxray]

(Original post by Origami Bullets)
Is it this one? If so, yes, but I've never used it. As far as I can see, it's just turned into a load of advertising

Oh no,where have you been!?! lol its called ba econ support class of 2013
Its quite funny there sometimes as well cos little arguments happen which I may or may not be involved in

[Pritesh.Mistry]

I chose the BA Econ as well.. didn't realise until after that you had to do extra social studies with it. Kind of annoying...

One misleading thing is that the course code at Manchester for it (L100) is the same for the BSc for Economics at University of Birmingham.

Pretty annoyed with that to be honest. My first choice is Birmingham. If I get a B (and ring up B'ham and they don't change my offer to AAB) I will try and ring Manchester to change the course to BSc as well.

[Ansi]

(Original post by Luxray)
Don't be too concerned. Sure there are a few problems in the course but all you have to be is pro-active. You just need to book appointments for one-to-one help with lecturers/tutors if you ever get stuck. And join your facebook group. Someone in the first few months of uni will make one where you can discuss things with your peers. Its really helpful. I would have been lost without mine during exam season when I couldn't do certain algebra type questions.

People need to remember that the true gem of the BA Econ is the flexibility yet ability to become very similar to the BSc if you wanted it to be (provided like you said, have an a-level maths). Both courses are in the same school so suffer the same supposed problems and share most of the same benefits. So switching to the BSc will provide only one key benefit... having 'BSc' in your name, not BA.

As someone mentioned it is quite easy to transfer if you have an a-level in maths but do it asap.

I figured that too, that one can make the course similar to BSc but the only thing i have a problem with, is the "Economic and Social Science" part in my future degree. I wouldn't mind taking that away, just having a "BA Economics and Finance" instead of "BA (Economics and Social Science) Economics and Finance". When it comes to grades, we have a three scale system in Sweden, let's call them A, B and C. I have a "B" in maths, so that's why I cannot change to BSc. I've probably missed my next question in this thread, but anyway, are you a BSc or BAEcon student?

I've already joined a FB group... You mean this one http://www.facebook.com/groups/2202405416/ , right?? Or is there another one? It's hard to reach out to the people in this group because one (at least me) cannot write a post or anything. So how am i supposed to get to know people if we cannot discuss things on the wall? I can create a new one and get people to transfer to a closed group where none of the post can be read by strangers or anything, just by members.

[Luxray]

(Original post by Ansi)
I figured that too, that one can make the course similar to BSc but the only thing i have a problem with, is the "Economic and Social Science" part in my future degree. I wouldn't mind taking that away, just having a "BA Economics and Finance" instead of "BA (Economics and Social Science) Economics and Finance". When it comes to grades, we have a three scale system in Sweden, let's call them A, B and C. I have a "B" in maths, so that's why I cannot change to BSc. I've probably missed my next question in this thread, but anyway, are you a BSc or BAEcon student?

I've already joined a FB group... You mean this one http://www.facebook.com/groups/2202405416/ , right?? Or is there another one? It's hard to reach out to the people in this group because one (at least me) cannot write a post or anything. So how am i supposed to get to know people if we cannot discuss things on the wall? I can create a new one and get people to transfer to a closed group where none of the post can be read by strangers or anything, just by members.

Thats just the society page, you can only write on it if you become a member of the society I think. I'm on about 'support' groups. Someone will make one for your year group eventually during the first term of uni,. It will be called something like ba econ support class of 2015 (whatever year you graduate). Why would you want to post on there anyway? lol just wait till you actually start the course. And people won't really 'transfer' they will just join any support group available. You could be the person who firsts creates it but wait til a month of uni passes cos then people will be thinking about academics and you can mention the group on the society page.

I study BA Econ. Don't worry too much about the degree title you get on your certificate, you kind of forget about it once you start your course. And employers know the degree is just BA Econ and Finance.