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(Original post by HaveADesmond)
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Just remembered HMRC take a 2.2 for their tax programme. It pays £30k in London.

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(Original post by M1011)
How do you know this? Did you do one? Just wondering.

Just from doing one or two business units and knowing people who did it. My cousin who is a business teacher says its a 'poor man's Economics.'

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Just from doing one or two business units and knowing people who did it. My cousin who is a business teacher says its a 'poor man's Economics.'

I did several economics modules as part of my business degree. Is it fair to say I know I would get a 1st in an economics degree because I managed it in a few economics modules? Would it interest you to know that the entry requirements at my uni are higher for Business and Management then Economics? I've got nothing against Economics, it's a solid degree and probably is more challenging on the whole, but don't simply award yourself a classification in a subject you know sod all about.

Edit: Oh and in retrospect, a 'business teacher'? I can only assume you're referring to an A-level business studies teacher, as no university lecturer simply does 'business'. You're quite right, business studies is an easy subject, but it does not reflect on the difficulty of a degree. Should we assume Law degrees are easy if a teacher tells us the A-level isn't very challenging (it isn't)?

Rant over

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(Original post by hiding12)
Just from doing one or two business units and knowing people who did it. My cousin who is a business teacher says its a 'poor man's Economics.'

I did Economics and I have 2 colleagues starting the ACA graduate training with me did English & History. Our common grounds are decent uni. and min. of 2:1. Don't rubbish anyone who did a different subject. Your degree doesn't matter much once you started the training. 70% of students achieved 2:1 or above so 2:1 is a sign of your ability to pass the ACA exam.

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unfortunately for jobs with high amounts of stress, they look on things like this as a weakness,

even if your whole family died and you got a third they would still question your ability to pick yourself up in the face of adversity, extreme distress, and severe pressure.

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(Original post by M1011)
I did several economics modules as part of my business degree. Is it fair to say I know I would get a 1st in an economics degree because I managed it in a few economics modules? Would it interest you to know that the entry requirements at my uni are higher for Business and Management then Economics? I've got nothing against Economics, it's a solid degree and probably is more challenging on the whole, but don't simply award yourself a classification in a subject you know sod all about.

Edit: Oh and in retrospect, a 'business teacher'? I can only assume you're referring to an A-level business studies teacher, as no university lecturer simply does 'business'. You're quite right, business studies is an easy subject, but it does not reflect on the difficulty of a degree. Should we assume Law degrees are easy if a teacher tells us the A-level isn't very challenging (it isn't)?

Rant over

Fair point, I dont think Business is an easy degree, I would just consider it easier than Economics tbh. Just based on what I saw from my friends who were doing business degrees and comparing it to what I was doing and from my cousins who said the above and did a Business degree. The Econometrics modules (stats, Economics and Maths modules) were pretty challenging but business is still certainly respectable and no doubt still challenging but I guess you prob got 1st in Introductory Economics modules?

I think it largely depends on what the degree constitutes, i.e there are one or two easier Economics modules but a lot of tricky ones as well but some uni's allow you to do less core ones if that makes sense

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Fair point, I dont think Business is an easy degree, I would just consider it easier than Economics tbh. Just based on what I saw from my friends who were doing business degrees and comparing it to what I was doing and from my cousins who said the above and did a Business degree. The Econometrics modules (stats, Economics and Maths modules) were pretty challenging but business is still certainly respectable and no doubt still challenging but I guess you prob got 1st in Introductory Economics modules?

I think it largely depends on what the degree constitutes, i.e there are one or two easier Economics modules but a lot of tricky ones as well but some uni's allow you to do less core ones if that makes sense

We're in danger of turning this in to a business vs economics debate. You raise fair points, and bear in mind I've already acknowledged that I respect economics as a degree subject and that it is the more challenging of the two. My issue was with you presuming that you would get a 2.1 in a subject you haven't done and know nothing about, simply because you managed a 2.2 in economics and therefore business must be easy for you. I took offence, but probably overreacted with my angry words. Lets leave it be shall we

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(Original post by M1011)
We're in danger of turning this in to a business vs economics debate. You raise fair points, and bear in mind I've already acknowledged that I respect economics as a degree subject and that it is the more challenging of the two. My issue was with you presuming that you would get a 2.1 in a subject you haven't done and know nothing about, simply because you managed a 2.2 in economics and therefore business must be easy for you. I took offence, but probably overreacted with my angry words. Lets leave it be shall we

Once again, I didn't say that Business was easy, perhaps just easier as you agreed, yeh, lets leave it be,haha