Psychology and economics

brid93

Hi ,

I am considering combining psychology with economics in the trinity tsm course. Is this a good combination? I'm not sure if there is a realistic chance of obtaining a job with this. Help would be greatly appreciated.

higgz

Seems like a worthwhile combination. Knowledge of how people behave is very fundamental to economics and this was mentioned at the open day talk.

You could probably get yourself into financial trading or something with that degree. Knowledge of decision making and all that. I say go for it, although isn't it one of the highest points TSM?

brid93

Ya, I think it was 560 points last year. I did my Leaving Cert last year and I got 585 points. I am in college at the moment studying law and accounting but I dont really like it. Im doing a module in economics and I really like it and psychology is something I have always been interested in.
Would the tsm course give me the same chance of getting a job as say someone with an economics and finance degree from ucd?

andrew

brid93 wrote: »

Ya, I think it was 560 points last year. I did my Leaving Cert last year and I got 585 points. I am in college at the moment studying law and accounting but I dont really like it. Im doing a module in economics and I really like it and psychology is something I have always been interested in.
Would the tsm course give me the same chance of getting a job as say someone with an economics and finance degree from ucd?

If you like maths (a lot) Econ and Maths TSM is the best economics degree. You can also do Economics through BESS; but this involves 2 years of doing economics and other subjects.

Tragedy

andrew wrote: »

but this involves 2 years of doing economics and other subjects.

Horrible other subjects

andrew

Tragedy wrote: »

Horrible other subjects

Business and Sociology *shudder*

the horror

Tragedy

How could you forget Political Science?
It's a science you know.

Tragedy

Did I mention that it was a science?

On the combination of Psych+Economics, it's a harder sell than Econ+Politics, Econ+Sociology, Business+Econ, pure Econ or Econ+Maths.
If you're not sure if you want pure economics, do BESS. If you love economics, just do Economics/Econ+Maths.

andrew

Tragedy wrote: »

How could you forget Political Science?
It's a science you know.

I'm not gonna lie, I kinda liked political science for a while there. Of course it's a science, some of the 2nd year lectures are in the Hamilton

Tragedy

Shockingly, I've preferred sociology to polsci so far. Both are subjects that for me are fun to think about, but fairly boring to study in practice. I enjoy the tutorials but the lectures make me hit snooze on my alarm clock in the morning.

Liquorice

Econ/psych seems to have surpassed english/psych as the TSM combo du jour, and is probably a far more sensible combination than the latter. Don't worry about job prospects, in my experience econ/psych graduates seem to have no problem getting jobs in either field as long as their degree results are good.

However, psychologists think economists have the most ludicrous assumptions and economists think psychology's contribution to economics is awfully messy so be prepared to go academic Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde on yourself!

d93c2inhxfok4y

andrew wrote: »

Business and Sociology *shudder*

Business :cool:

Tragedy wrote: »

How could you forget Political Science?
It's a science you know.

Political Science :cool:

Tragedy

Jason Rancid Steamer wrote: »

Business :cool:



Political Science :cool:

Haaaaey guy, you have any JF books left over?

RMD

brid93 wrote: »

Ya, I think it was 560 points last year. I did my Leaving Cert last year and I got 585 points. I am in college at the moment studying law and accounting but I dont really like it. Im doing a module in economics and I really like it and psychology is something I have always been interested in.
Would the tsm course give me the same chance of getting a job as say someone with an economics and finance degree from ucd?

Mostly depends on whether you go abroad or stay here. I've been told by multiple big employers than in Ireland it's mostly down to degree performance over where it's from (as long as it's from a Uni), but if you go abroad it's hugely helpful having the Trinity name attached to it. A friend of mine who's living in England now said she got a serious advantage in that all Brits essentially think Trinity is on par with the big Unis such as LSE / UCL / KCL etc, not quite Cambridge or Oxford but they certainly hold it in a very high regard. Nowadays with the way things are it'd be a good idea to do a masters and the MIM CEMS in Smurfit (Masters in International Management, accredited by the CEMS) would be a great idea after doing Psychology + Economics, the Financial Times rated it as the joint best Masters in Management for the last 3 years. That is still a fair bit down the line though.

brid93

Hi, thanks for the help guys. To be honest I was not great at maths at school. I got a b1 in higher level with a fair amount of effort. And I was much worse at all the paper 2 stuff. If I combined economics with a language would that be more beneficial. I did German at school.

Sir Ophiuchus

Liquorice wrote: »

Econ/psych seems to have surpassed english/psych as the TSM combo du jour, and is probably a far more sensible combination than the latter.

I disconcur!

Joe_Dull

As someone who wanted to do psychology/music but ended up doing single honour psychology, DON'T combine it with another subject! The TSM students get only a bare fraction of what the single honours do, and at the end of the day you're much better equipped for the field. To give an example, this semester I did History of Psychology, Organisational Psychology, Statistics labs & seminars and Social Psychology. All the TSMs did was Social. If economics is really your thing and you're doing psychology out of interest, by all means go for it, but if it's the other way round I'd strongly suggest single honours!