University of Reading
Economics with Placement Year
BA (Hons), 4 years
Typical offer rate
90–100%
high entry
Grad employment
90%
15 months after
In professional roles
90%
Median grad salary
£28,000
15 months after
Reading's Economics with Placement Year is a BA running over four years with a year in industry embedded within the programme; the economics curriculum covers theory, policy and quantitative methods, and the placement year is what the extra time adds. An offer is likely for applicants who meet the grades.
How hard is it to get in?
The typical applicant to Economics with Placement Year at University of Reading has a 90–100% chance of an offer, high by UK standards. That baseline is course-typical. Your own chance depends on your grades, subjects and the rest of your profile.
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Reading teaches on its parkland Whiteknights campus in the Thames Valley, known for agriculture, meteorology and the environmental sciences.
Full details and how to apply are on the university's official course page: University of Reading · Economics with Placement Year
Offer rate and graduate-outcome figures are course-typical baselines derived from UK admissions and HESA data; they are estimates, not guarantees. Your personalised offer likelihood is calculated in the Unimetrica app.