• Target level of study

    BAC +3

  • ECTS

    180 credits

  • Duration

    3 years

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Economics

Presentation

The Bachelor's degree is a generalist course in economics, offering fundamental teaching units such as business economics, mathematics for economists, statistics, the history of economic facts, etc., as well as opening subjects such as political science, law and organizational management....

During the course of their studies, students can choose options such as business law, institutional economics, cost accounting, economic and social policy, international finance and environmental economics.

ISO 9001 certified, the Bachelor's degree offered by the Faculty of Economics at the University of Montpellier includes :

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  • 75% success rate in 3rd year of Bachelor's degree in economics

    Success rates

Training benefits

  • GENERAL TRAINING IN ECONOMICS
  • A DIVERSITY OF CAREER PATHS
  • HELP FOR SUCCESS AND TUTORING
  • OPENING UP TO EUROPE AND THE REST OF THE WORLD
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Objectives

Around 90% of students continue their studies after the bachelor's degree (mainly at Master's level). The remainder take competitive administrative exams or enter business schools through parallel admission. A very small number of students stop their studies after graduating.

MASTERS (BAC +5)
At Montpellier's Faculty of Economics, there are two Master's degrees
Money, Banking, Finance, Insurance, comprising 5 courses
- Actuarial Science
- Banking Risk Analysis
- Market Risk Analysis
- Financial Engineering
- Economic and Financial Information Systems

The Economics specialization, comprising 7 courses
- Economics of Agricultural Development, the Environment and Food
- Economics of Energy
- Digital Economics
- Economics and Psychology
- Public Economics and the Environment
- Economics of Health Systems
- Economic Evaluation and Adaptation to Climate Change
There are many other masters programs in France accessible with a bachelor's degree in economics.

BRIDGES TO BUSINESS SCHOOLS
In schools that traditionally recruited after a preparatory course, more than half of students now come from other backgrounds.
The most common admission is after a Bac + 2, but it is also possible to enter a school after a Bac + 3 or Bac + 4.

THE DOCTORATE (BAC +8)
The doctorate in economics is a graduate training program for people interested in research in economics and in obtaining a doctoral degree.
Doctoral students are (generally) recruited on a competitive basis by university doctoral schools.
Students enrolled in this program take advanced courses in economics and carry out original research with a view to writing a doctoral thesis.

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Know-how and skills

Holders of a bachelor's degree in Economics

  • Prepares, collects and analyzes the information needed to compile economic research files
  • Data processing and analysis
  • Prepares study reports: statistical or economic
  • Carry out an economic evaluation of business, sector or public policy practices, to support decision-making
  • Evaluate the appropriateness of implementing management tools

By the third year, students have mastered

Office tools, information search, analysis and synthesis techniques, communication techniques, business English (Source:RNCP).

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Organization

Knowledge control

The Bachelor's degree in Economics is divided into 3 years and 6 semesters. At the end of each semester, for each Teaching Unit, skills and knowledge acquisition are assessed either by continuous assessment or by a final exam. 

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Special features

Students with disabilities, young entrepreneurs and high-level athletes can benefit from special study arrangements or special rights.

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Program

Select a program

Bachelor's degree in Economics

The aim of the standard Economics degree course is to enable students to acquire a foundation of knowledge, know-how and skills, enabling them to continue their studies in a Master's degree in Economics or Finance. 

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  • Business economics

    5 credits
  • Principles of economics

    5 credits
  • Political Science

    4 credits
  • Law

    4 credits
  • History of economic facts

    5 credits
  • Mathematics for economists -1-

    5 credits
  • Math upgrade Optional

  • LANGUAGE CHOICE

    2 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 2

      • English S1

        2 credits
      • Spanish S1

        2 credits
  • Optional

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional option Student project

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional option Sport

    • Math upgrade Optional

  • Mathematics and statistics for economists - 2 -

    5 credits
  • General accounting

    4 credits
  • Macroeconomics 1

    5 credits
  • Statistics 1

    5 credits
  • Microeconomics 1

    5 credits
  • Contemporary economic issues

    4 credits
  • LANGUAGE CHOICE

    2 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 2

      • English S2

        2 credits
      • Spanish S2

        2 credits
  • Optional

    • Performing arts option

    • Optional sport option

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional option Student project

    • Optional PIX option Semester 2

    • L1 Student engagement

  • Microeconomics 2

    6 credits
  • Mathematics for economists - 3 -

    5 credits
  • Macroeconomics 2

    6 credits
  • Sociology

    4 credits
  • Statistics 2

    5 credits
  • Computer Science S3

    2 credits
  • LANGUAGE CHOICE

    2 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 2

      • English S3

        2 credits
      • Spanish S3

        2 credits
  • Optional

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional option Sport

    • Optional option Student project

  • Computing S4

    2 credits
  • Macroeconomics 3

    6 credits
  • Statistics 3

    5 credits
  • Organization management

    5 credits
  • Microeconomics 3

    6 credits
  • LANGUAGE CHOICE English or Spanish

    2 credits
  • OPTIONS

    2 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 4

      • Business Rights

        2 credits
      • Geographical economy

        2 credits
      • Institutional economics

        2 credits
      • Economic demographics

  • Optional

    • Performing arts option

    • Optional option Sport

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional option Student project

    • Student involvement

  • History of economic thought

    4 credits
  • Game theory

    4 credits
  • Introduction to econometrics

    4 credits
  • Industrial organization

    5 credits
  • Growth economics

    5 credits
  • LANGUAGE CHOICE

    2 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 2

      • English S5

        2 credits
      • Spanish S5

        2 credits
  • Option list 1

    3 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 4

      • Optimization

        3 credits
      • Private economic calculation

        3 credits
      • In-depth contemporary economic issues

        3 credits
      • Cost accounting

        3 credits
  • Option list 2

    3 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 6

      • Labour economics

        3 credits
      • Urban and spatial economics

        3 credits
      • Energy transition

        3 credits
      • Health economics

        3 credits
      • Development economics

        3 credits
      • Introduction to environmental economics

        3 credits
  • Optional

    • Optional option Sport

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional Toeic S5 preparation

    • Optional option Student project

  • Financial analysis

    4 credits
  • Data analysis

    3 credits
  • International economy

    4 credits
  • Database

    4 credits
  • Economic and social policy

    5 credits
  • Student Personal Project

    2 credits
  • LANGUAGE CHOICE

    2 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 2

      • English S6

        2 credits
      • Spanish

        2 credits
  • Option list 1

    3 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 4

      • Applied microeconomics

        3 credits
      • Survey theory

        3 credits
      • Business analysis

        3 credits
      • Operational research

        3 credits
  • Option list 2

    3 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 6

      • International Finance

        3 credits
      • Introduction to environmental economics

        3 credits
      • Economics and psychology

        3 credits
      • Public policy evaluation

        3 credits
      • Digital economy

        3 credits
      • Health economics

        3 credits
  • Optional

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional option Student project

    • Optional option Sport

    • Performing arts option

    • Optional Toeic S6 preparation

  • Optional

    • L3 Student engagement

Bachelor's degree in International Economics

Students can choose the international pathway as early as the second semester of 1st year. This pathway comprises 10 courses over the course of the bachelor's degree: two courses in the second semester of L1, then two courses in each semester of L2 and L3, delivered in English and corresponding to the 10 core courses of the bachelor's degree. Each student has the choice of taking these 10 courses and sitting the exams in French or English, depending on the path chosen.

At the end of semester 1, students are invited to take a test to assess their level of English. Thereafter, students follow the same curriculum as in the traditional bachelor's degree, but each semester two subjects are replaced by their equivalent in English.

 

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  • Business economics

    5 credits
  • Principles of economics

    5 credits
  • Math upgrade Optional

  • Political Science

    4 credits
  • Law

    4 credits
  • History of economic facts

    5 credits
  • Mathematics for economists -1-

    5 credits
  • CHOIX1

    2 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 2

      • English S1

        2 credits
      • Spanish S1

        2 credits
  • Optional

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional option Student project

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional option Sport

    • Math upgrade Optional

  • Mathematics and statistics for economists - 2 -

    5 credits
  • General accounting

    4 credits
  • Statistics 1

    5 credits
  • English S2

    2 credits
  • Macroeconomics 1

    5 credits
  • Microeconomics 1

    5 credits
  • Contemporary economic issues

    4 credits
  • Optional

    • Performing arts option

    • Optional sport option

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional option Student project

    • Optional PIX option Semester 2

    • L1 Student engagement

  • English S3

    2 credits
  • Mathematics for economists - 3 -

    5 credits
  • Macroeconomics 2

    6 credits
  • Sociology

    4 credits
  • Statistics 2

    5 credits
  • Microeconomics 2

    6 credits
  • IT

    2 credits
  • Optional

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional option Sport

    • Optional option Student project

  • Macroeconomics 3

    6 credits
  • English S4

    2 credits
  • Computing S4

    2 credits
  • Statistics 3

    5 credits
  • CHOIX1

    2 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 2

      • Spanish

        2 credits
      • English S4

        2 credits
  • CHOIX2

    2 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 4

      • Business Rights

        2 credits
      • Geographical economy

        2 credits
      • Institutional economics

        2 credits
      • Economic demographics

  • Microeconomics 3

    6 credits
  • Organization management

    5 credits
  • Optional

    • Performing arts option

    • Optional option Sport

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional option Student project

    • Student involvement

  • CHOIX2

    3 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 5

      • Labour economics

        3 credits
      • Urban and spatial economics

        3 credits
      • Energy transition

        3 credits
      • Development economics

        3 credits
      • Introduction to environmental economics

        3 credits
  • History of economic thought

    4 credits
  • Game theory

    4 credits
  • English S5

    2 credits
  • Introduction to econometrics

    4 credits
  • Industrial organization

    5 credits
  • Growth economics

    5 credits
  • CHOIX1

    3 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 4

      • Optimization

        3 credits
      • Private economic calculation

        3 credits
      • In-depth contemporary economic issues

        3 credits
      • Cost accounting

        3 credits
  • Optional

    • Optional option Sport

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional Toeic S5 preparation

    • Optional option Student project

  • Financial analysis

    4 credits
  • Economic and social policy

    5 credits
  • Data analysis

    3 credits
  • Database

    4 credits
  • International economics

    4 credits
  • English S6

    2 credits
  • CHOIX1

    3 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 4

      • Applied microeconomics

        3 credits
      • Survey theory

        3 credits
      • Business analysis

        3 credits
      • Operational research

        3 credits
  • CHOIX2

    3 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 5

      • International Finance

        3 credits
      • Public policy evaluation

        3 credits
      • Economics and psychology

        3 credits
      • Health economics

        3 credits
      • Digital economy

        3 credits
  • Your choice: 1 of 1

    • L3 Student engagement

  • Optional

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional option Student project

    • Optional option Sport

    • Performing arts option

    • Optional Toeic S6 preparation

Bachelor's degree in Economics

The RÉUSSIR and RÉUSSIR BIS tracks are designed for students whose prerequisites are too weak to succeed in the classic track.

It offers a group of 40 students the chance to complete their L1 in economics in 2 years, with double the teaching hours in the core subjects of the economics degree (mathematics, statistics and economics).

At the end of these 2 years, students who have validated the 60 ECTS will enter the L2.

 

 

 

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  • Optional

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional option Student project

    • Optional option Sport

  • Business economics

    5 credits
  • Mathematics refresher course

    2.5 credits
  • Voltaire certification

  • English

    2 credits
  • Principles of economics

    5 credits
  • Statistics

    2.5 credits
  • Optional

    • Performing arts option

    • Optional sport option

    • Optional option Student project

    • Optional PIX option Semester 2

  • Statistics

    2.5 credits
  • Macroeconomics

    2.5 credits
  • Mathematics for economists

    2.5 credits
  • General accounting

    4 credits
  • Voltaire certification

  • English

    1 credits
  • Mathematics 2

    2.5 credits
  • Political Science

    4 credits
  • Law

    4 credits
  • History of economic facts

    5 credits
  • Microeconomics

    2.5 credits
  • Optional

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional option Student project

    • Optional option Sport

  • Macroeconomics

    2.5 credits
  • Mathematics / Statistics

    2.5 credits
  • Microeconomics

    2.5 credits
  • English

    1 credits
  • Contemporary economic issues

    4 credits
  • Optional

    • Performing arts option

    • Optional sport option

    • Optional option Student project

    • Optional PIX option Semester 2

Bachelor's degree in health economics (LAS)

In France, access to studies in the healthcare professions - doctor, dental surgeon, midwife and pharmacist - is by competitive examination (MMOP for Médecine Maïeutique Odontologie Pharmacie). Since the 2020 reform, the Licence Accès Santé (Health Access License) has enabled students to submit two applications for the MMOP examination between the first and third years of their Licence.

The Faculty of Economics offers a Bachelor's degree in Health and Economics.

LAS Economics students complete the first year of the Bachelor's degree in Economics at the Faculty of Economics. The program is made up of part of the classic L1 Economics curriculum (48 ECTS) and a Health Minor (12 ECTS).

Health minor courses are identical for all LAS (LAS Droit, Psychology, SVT, Chemistry...) and are offered by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montpellier. Teaching in the Health Minor (lectures and tutorials) is entirely distance learning.  

MMOP competition eligibility:

The MMOP competition is a selective one, in which academic excellence takes precedence. As a result, the conditions to be met in order to apply for the MMOP competition are more restrictive than the conditions for validation of the first year of the LAS Economics bachelor's degree.

To apply for the MMOP competition during the first year of LAS, you must :

- Validate the 60 ECTS at the end of the first session of L1 exams.

- Pass each of the 3 courses in the Health Minor with at least a 10/20 average: there is no possibility of offsetting grades obtained in other courses.

During the LAS Bachelor's degree, between the first and third years, students can submit 2 applications for the MMOP competitive entrance exam, bearing in mind that 60 additional ECTS must be accumulated between the 2 applications (it is not possible to apply when repeating a year).

Number of places :

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  • UE santé commune (prerequisite for MMOP application if ACQ)

    12 credits
    • Medicines and other health products (MAPS) 2 ECTS

      2 credits
      • Your choice: 1 of 4

        • PASS Flahault MAPS

        • FdS MAPS

        • PASS Nimes MAPS

        • PASS ADV MAPS

    • Human and Social Sciences (SHS) 5 ECTS

      5 credits
      • Your choice: 1 of 1

        • FDS SHS

    • General Human Physiology (PHG) 5 ECTS

      5 credits
      • Your choice: 1 of 1

        • MSDS PHG

  • Principles of economics

    5 credits
  • Political Science

    4 credits
  • Law

    4 credits
  • Mathematics for economists -1-

    5 credits
  • Optional

    • Optional PIX option

    • Optional option Student project

    • Optional Voltaire certification

    • Optional option Sport

    • Math upgrade Optional

  • Optional

    • S2 Student Project Option

    • S2 Sport option

    • Optional option Voltaire certification preparation Semester 2

    • Performing arts option

    • Optional PIX option Semester 2

  • Statistics 1

    5 credits
  • Problèmes Economiques Contemporains

    4 credits
  • General Accounting

    4 credits
  • Mathematics 2

    5 credits
  • Microeconomics 2

    5 credits
  • Macroeconomics 1

    5 credits
  • Your choice: 1 of 2

    • Spanish 2

      2 credits
    • English 2

      2 credits

Admission

Access conditions

  • For Licence 1: Baccalauréat
  • For Licence 2: Licence 1 or by equivalence (after approval by a committee)
  • For Licence 3: Licence 2 or equivalent (subject to approval by a committee)
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Target audience

High school and university students from the Académie de Montpellier, the Occitanie region, France and abroad

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And then

Further studies

After a Bachelor's degree in Economics

Around 90% of students continue their studies after the bachelor's degree (mainly at Master's level). The remainder take competitive administrative exams or enter business schools on a parallel admission basis. Finally, a very small number of students stop their studies after the bachelor's degree.

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Professional integration

Career opportunities are as follows:

executives in SMEs, government departments, banks, the insurance sector, the voluntary sector, executives in marketing, management, strategy, business management, financial analysis, project evaluation,....

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