Economic degrees - anywhere else good apart from Russell Group

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Hi

My son is interested in doing Economics at uni. He is still actually doing his GCSEs, but thinking ahead is motivating him.

He would like a BA rather than a BSc route and is thinking of Economics, Geography and either Business Studies or English Literature A Levels.

I have looked at courses on theuniguide and on the Russell Group list and there are lots of good options.

Has anyone else had any good experience of somewhere non-Russell Group? I didn't go to uni myself until I was old! So I haven't got much of a sense of how universities are perceived if they are not RG.

Thank you for any help.

Apologies OP that’s rather waffly. What I mean is that I wouldn’t focus on the ‘where’ just yet but the ‘what’.

If every grad from a top university wanted to go into the civil service, the NHS, teaching or local government we do end up as a country where our brightest grads are deciding how to spend the country’s money. We do need the brightest to earn the money too: our companies to succeed and pay tax. If we don’t have both, the country suffers. I’m not caring much about what Oxbridge think of the destinations of their grads in terms of rankings but is this something to do with far less privately educated dc attending? No proof of that at all of course and students should go into careers that interest them.

I think a 7 at maths rarely correlates with a top grade at A level. So perhaps the ops DC is wise not to do it. If he wants Geography in the end, it won’t matter.