香港浸會大學

The Applied Economics Concentration offers you broad-based knowledge and technical skills – a powerful combination that employers want nowadays. We emphasize the connection between theory and application in the industry. Besides popular economics core courses that allow students to analyze individual markets and macroeconomies, we provide you with updated economic knowledge and IT skills that are practical in the industry via both curricular and co-curricular learning activities, including workshops, seminars, and internships.

Salient Features

• Focus on the application of economics theories to business decision making, public policies, and practical issues.
• Equip graduates with knowledge and skills for a career in banking, financial institutions, trade and commercial sectors, and the teaching profession.
• Ample opportunities for students to participate in academic and non-academic activities, such as overseas exchange programmes, internships, field trips, inter-institutional contests and mentoring programmes.
• Students can pursue additional graduation options including Double Concentration within BBA, or a Minor in non-business discipline.

What are the career opportunities of graduates?

In addition to the likely employment for BBA graduates in management, marketing/sales, accounting and banking, we have placed our Applied Economics graduates in more advanced jobs in financial and commercial sectors, such as asset management, credit analyst, risk management, treasury, and compliance, which require specifically a degree in economics or other relevant disciplines in finance, law and science. Some of our graduates have also pursued their careers as research analysts in business strategy development, public policy analysts for consulting firms, government and public utilities, as well as teachers of economics or liberal studies.

Concentration Required Courses (9 units)

• Intermediate Microeconomics
• Intermediate Macroeconomics
• Applied Econometrics

Concentration Elective Courses (12 units)

• Asia-Pacific Economies
• Chinese Economic Developments
• Crisis Economics
• Economic and Business Forecasting
• Economics of Human Resources
• Economies of Hong Kong and the Pan-Pearl River Delta
• Games and Economic Decisions
• International Financial Economics
• International Organization and Business Decision
• International Trade
• Introduction to Technical Analysis
• Mathematical Analysis for Economics
• Mathematics for Economists
• Money and Banking
• Money and Finance in China
• Public Finance
• Real Estate Economic
• Business Economics Internship