Do employers look at module choices in uni or just your grade??! Please help ASAP!

I'm currently having a last minute rethink on my module choices for this year at uni, and we have to register for all courses by Thursday so I'd appreciate some quick advice :smile:

I'm going into my second year of Business Management (I know not the best course, but it's at a top 10 uni so I'm hoping it'll make up for it), and I sort of know that I want to go into the finance and accountancy world after I graduate. I always intended to pick the modules that would be geared towards this field, i.e. all the Economics and finance & accounting related modules. However, looking through the module choices that are available to me, I'm sort of wanting to "cop out" and choose a couple of easier modules to balance it out, like Marketing for instance, instead of Microeconomics, just because I know it's a much easier course and I'm 90% sure to get a better mark in the former than the latter :redface:

. I'm still picking all the accounting modules though, just having doubts over whether so much Economics is needed?

My question is, will employers of all the bigger firms (or even any firms) look at which particular modules I did through uni or will they only care about whether I got a 1st or 2:1 etc?

Thanks.

I would doubt it.

Which one do you doubt? They care about module choice, or they care about overall grade?

Reply 3

ma2k5

Overall grade. Its good if you do the challenging modules - if you learn somthing out of it. But truthfully I can't see them discriminate you on what modules you took - theirs no guide to say "module X > Y" etc, at the end its up to the person what they wish to learn. Grade counts, not what you wished to specialise in.