Waterford Institute of Technology

Course Description

• ​The Economics & Finance stream on the BBS (Hons) program provides students with the opportunity to specialise in Economics and Finance for the final two years of their degree, taking modules such as Financial Economics, Economic Policy Issues, and Investments
  
• The stream provides students with skills that are highly in demand in the market and provides a great platform for postgraduate studies. In Semester 6 students will be given an opportunity to participate in one of the following: International Placement, Work Placement, Start-Up Lab, or Teaching Skills
• This stream applies economics and finance concepts to key contemporary issues such as Brexit, Crypto currencies, and economic crises. Students are given the opportunity of testing theories on real-world data
• The financial services sector is the largest employer of graduates from WIT’s business school. The sector is expanding rapidly and one-third of jobs are created outside of Dublin
• Graduates of the stream have successfully obtained employment in some of the largest Financial Services firms in the world such as Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citi, Bank of America, AIG, European Central Bank, OECD, PWC, and KPMG