Bachelor of Economics

Through economics, you can follow your passion and shape the world. Our Bachelor of Economics offers a pathway to major in in either Industry, Policy and Business Strategy or Society and Environment. Both teach you how to better understand the world around you. Graduating, you’ll be able to frame problems through an economics lens, to critically analyse data, and to generate knowledge and innovative recommendations that support policy and practice. You’ll develop these skills though real-world learning experiences like corporate internships, report writing, multidisciplinary teamwork, and industry case studies. Make a difference with your career. Help solve the economic and financial challenges of the future. Learn from leading experts whose links with industry, professional associations, other academics and government ensure that their teaching remains contemporary and relevant. Real-world learning. Enrich your degree through hands-on learning experiences: corporate internships, report writing, multidisciplinary teamwork, and the use of industry case studies in the classroom. Be rewarded in the workplace. Enter the workforce with the analytical and communication skills highly valued by industry and government. The Bachelor of Economics at the University of Tasmania builds individual capacity for economic thought, and the ability to apply this mindset to solving problems faced by industry, government and the society at local, national and global levels. Our graduates will have the ability to synthesise information and build empirically-valid models to support economic decision making. They will acquire skills to frame problems through an economics lens, to critically analyse data of relevance, and to generate knowledge and innovative evidence-based recommendations to support policy and practice.

Admission to undergraduate courses at the University of Tasmania requires the completion of qualifications equivalent to a 12th year of education in Australia.

You can also meet the General Entry Requirement for this course with the following qualifications or prior studies:

Completion of an equivalent AQF Certificate IV or above
Complete or incomplete (minimum 25 credit points) of previous tertiary study at Diploma level or higher.

English language test scores: IELTS (Academic) - 6.0 (no individual band less than 5.5); TOEFL (iBT) - 72 (no skill below: Reading 10; Listening 9; Speaking 16; Writing 19); PTE Academic - 50 with no score lower than 42; UTAS English for Academic Purposes - EAP2 - 60% (no individual score less than 55%); Cambridge English C1 Advanced or B2 First - 169 with no less than 162 in any skill; Australian Education Management Group (AEMG) DEP EAP2 - Minimum overall score of 70% and no section score of less than 65%.