[angelic03]

Industrial economics at Nottingham or (straight) economics at SOAS?

[.ACS.]

That's a tough one.

Nottingham - The course is run by the Business School and not the Economics Department. It's a course that focuses on the existence of firms, how they're run, how they work in the market, their products, how they operate, their strategy, and so on. For me it's more of a Business degree than an Economics one.

SOAS - The course has a special focus on development economics, and in your degree you study a specific LCD region in depth. It, however, is a proper economics degree and you'll still cover the core micro and macro theories you would elsewhere; it's just you can't choose optional modules in say monetary theory or international trade or behavioural economics or international finance, all your options are development related.

Personally I'd find the Industrial Economics course at Nottingham more interesting since I don't like development economics. But that's personal preference.

Choose a course you think you'd enjoy. They're both quite different. Nottingham's is really a business course whereas SOAS' is an actual economics course.

Hope this helps.

[FDR]

(Original post by angelic03)
Industrial economics at Nottingham or (straight) economics at SOAS?

As .ACS has said above, it is a tough decision.

As said above, IE is run by the business school, but the IE course itself is quite prestigious, and members of staff have previously held government positions. Not to mention that the IE department at Notts is the largest in the country, and hosts the British Network of Industrial Economics annually, and does a lot of research.

SOAS the advantage is that it is indeed a straight economics course, although first years will share some lectures with the "Development Economics" course (not actually called that, but something along the lines of "Econ and International Development). The advantage of SOAS will be very small class sizes and a low student:staff ratio. It will be geared towards economics in context of africa, the middle east and the far east. SOAS is also part of the University of London, so you can also take some modules at UCL and LSE (I believe).

I'd say that for the respective courses, the reputation of the unis aren't really that different, so decide on whether you would prefer Industrial economics or straight economics, but in african/far and middle eastern context, with a strong element of development.

[angelic03]

(Original post by .ACS.)
That's a tough one.

Nottingham - The course is run by the Business School and not the Economics Department. It's a course that focuses on the existence of firms, how they're run, how they work in the market, their products, how they operate, their strategy, and so on. For me it's more of a Business degree than an Economics one.

SOAS - The course has a special focus on development economics, and in your degree you study a specific LCD region in depth. It, however, is a proper economics degree and you'll still cover the core micro and macro theories you would elsewhere; it's just you can't choose optional modules in say monetary theory or international trade or behavioural economics or international finance, all your options are development related.

Personally I'd find the Industrial Economics course at Nottingham more interesting since I don't like development economics. But that's personal preference.

Choose a course you think you'd enjoy. They're both quite different. Nottingham's is really a business course whereas SOAS' is an actual economics course.

Hope this helps.

thank you, it has! I've decided to choose SOAS

[lucas13]

Id choose soas as its straight econ and still a good uni.