Alternative to BESS in Trinity

roisiny

Hi there,
Just after completing my Leaving Cert and sadly one or 2 exams didn't go as well as I'd hoped. BESS (Business, Economics, Sociology and Political Science) in Trinity was my number one, and will continue to be if I get freakishly lucky.

I'm very interested in a Business\Economics\Sociology degree, with the opinion to do a joint or single honours. I can find degrees that are Bus\Ec or ones where it is possible to do a combination of ec\soc\politics, but none that include the 3 I particularly desire together.

Just wondering does anyone know of any similar course that I have overlooked - in any University.

Thanks,
Roisin

malu123

I don't think that there are any universities that offer econ/business/socio as a possible subject combination, apart from TCD. If you're keen on dropping socio after a year you could consider doing something like maths/econ/socio instead? This would help with econ and would probably give you better postgraduate opportunities (econ would be seen as a better degree than business for financial or econ courses that are maths heavy)

Then again you might find that you want to keep up sociology (a joint honours with economics gives you a lot of choice for post grad (from int. relations to finance)

Best of luck

TMJM96

UL offers a 4 year BA degree in Economics and Sociology that I feel would offer something similar to what TCD's BESS degree does.

One advantage UL has is that you do have an 8 month CoOp placement (either nationally in Ireland or abroad) and also an opportunity to do Erasmus.

Unfortunately I don't study the degree nor study anything within that department but I know people who do and they enjoy it

roisiny

malu123 wrote: »

I don't think that there are any universities that offer econ/business/socio as a possible subject combination, apart from TCD. If you're keen on dropping socio after a year you could consider doing something like maths/econ/socio instead? This would help with econ and would probably give you better postgraduate opportunities (econ would be seen as a better degree than business for financial or econ courses that are maths heavy)

Then again you might find that you want to keep up sociology (a joint honours with economics gives you a lot of choice for post grad (from int. relations to finance)

Best of luck

Very sorry, answered this yesterday but it didn't seem to post.
Thanks very much for all our help, lots of info to think about!

I did accounting in LC and we were advised if we wanted to become accountants to not limit ourselves by doing solely accounting degrees. Instead do a more open degree, as it is common for larger companies to sponsor employees to specialise. Would this be similar if I ever wanted to pursue a career in stereo typically 'business' areas, eg marketing for example?

I had honestly never even considered doing a course in maths but will definitely look into it.

roisiny

TMJM96 wrote: »

UL offers a 4 year BA degree in Economics and Sociology that I feel would offer something similar to what TCD's BESS degree does.

One advantage UL has is that you do have an 8 month CoOp placement (either nationally in Ireland or abroad) and also an opportunity to do Erasmus.

Unfortunately I don't study the degree nor study anything within that department but I know people who do and they enjoy it

Will look into this, thank you!

malu123

roisiny wrote: »

Very sorry, answered this yesterday but it didn't seem to post.
Thanks very much for all our help, lots of info to think about!

I did accounting in LC and we were advised if we wanted to become accountants to not limit ourselves by doing solely accounting degrees. Instead do a more open degree, as it is common for larger companies to sponsor employees to specialise. Would this be similar if I ever wanted to pursue a career in stereo typically 'business' areas, eg marketing for example?

I had honestly never even considered doing a course in maths but will definitely look into it.

If you have an interest in going into accounting after college and can't see yourself pursuing sociology then it might be more prudent to do a commerce degree. (if you don't want to restrict yourself purely to accounting)+ maybe look into the commerce course in UCD, they have a unique system where you can do a few modules that aren't on the commerce syllabus e.g. sociology. I think this would allow you to do Econ, busi, accounting and sociology to an extent. (Look up "UCD electives")- won't let me send the link

As far as a I know accounting post graduate degrees assume a solid background in the subject, which something like commerce would provide so I wouldn't suggest doing a joint honours if you think you would be interested in pursuing accounting(I'm not 100% sure; look into it )

And finally, if you are open to doing economics and maths then look into a finance/financial maths and economics degree e.g. the course in NUIG is very good if you have an aptitude for maths. (Answering this assuming you're more interested in the business side of things opposed to sociology.... Also you would want to be getting a 2.1 if you would like to pursue a post grad in a prestigious college like tcd/ucd etc. so try to pick something that you have an interest in and have an aptitude for)