Anyone with an offer for Land Economy? or for Downing? or with IB diploma?

supervisions are organised by department, not college like other subjects. So you sign up for supervisions in the department and you can go with anyone from any college, normally 4 to a group.

1st year - everyone has to take all four modules:
Paper 1 - Economics - micro, macro and welfare
Paper 2 - Constitutional and Administrative Law
Paper 3 - Accounting and Data Evaluation - first term is accounting an
second
term is statistics - including a statistical project worth
Paper 4 - Land, Environment and Structural Change - ranges from history of
Cambridge's development as a city to more general issues such as pollution,
property rights and development

As I am sure you can see a key aim to the course is that it is broad and
that students learn a variety of skills and subjects. But we do study things
in detail - as would be expected of Cambridge we are not dipping in and out
of things - we are expected to be as good as the lawyers at land law for
example. A few years ago it was the course that
sportsmen would come to do when their degree was not the most important
aspect of their lives, but it has been turned around in the last decade or
so. I've been looking at going into a career as a chartered surveyor and a
lot of firms I have seen have come to Cambridge as they really like the
course and what we learn. A lot of people do go into investment, banking
etc. as well and are not having issues competing with some other pure
subjects [Economics, maths etc]. There is a lot of learning of theory, a lot
of the course hinges on economics. Having said this what you need to know of
economics is taught in the first year, so not studying Economics at A Level
is not a problem, although you have to be prepared to do a crash course in
the A level course and to get your head into an economical way of thinking.
Similarly with Maths.

There are a couple of colleges that do not offer the course and the number
of students from each college varies with its size - there are two per year
in Downing, 3/4 at Johns. This is great as it is a small class [50 odd
normally, although rising] and subsequently Land Economists are famous in
Cambridge for
mixing out of college, as you have to. I really enjoy the course as it is so
varied, but I don't find it easy. It is hard learning how to write a formal
law essay one day and then calculating investment returns etc the next, but
I love the variety, even though the content is impossible sometimes! Land
Econ have also got a great social life within the department and years and
that aspect is great. In a brutally honest statement, in the
first year you can get away with doing less than you could in other subjects
and still pass. In your subsequent years it gets a lot harder to do that and
employers know that it is now a great degree course and some areas are
incredibly keen for students to apply for jobs with them.