Economics with languages

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Hello
I was wondering if anyone could share experience of undergraduate degrees in Economics with languages (Hispanic or French) and
-how they felt when applying to uni compared to applying to a straight economics degree (ie was it really less competitive ?) did they apply to both pure econ and econ with languages ?
-when at uni whether the econ contents was the same as those doing pure econ or lighter ?
and whether they felt it put them in a strong position (or as strong) when looking for employment compared to those with pure economics degrees or it didn’t make such a difference at the end.

Some basics questions but we haven’t been to uni in this country and feel the huge range of choice a little puzzling !

thanks

I didn’t want to leave your question unanswered. I don’t have direct info about this but I do know a number of young people who have done a MFL with other degrees that are very competitive. One studied at Bristol and did the year abroad in France at a Grande Ecole. MFL is available for Economics degrees at Bristol. Warwick also offer Economics and French. I have not checked any others but I would be surprised if other top universities didn’t offer this combination.

Therefore my advice would be to choose top flight universities for Economics. Many MFL departments need students. An applicant might not get a reduced grade offer but the university might look more favourably on the application. They need MFL students.

As for jobs - I really don’t know., The Bristol student I know now works in France in a well paid industry. The Warwick grad is a barrister. So they seem to be high achieving but of course there is more to work than a university course.

My DC is doing dual economics but not with a mfl so no 100% relevant. The main problem we have had is that not many uni's offer the course, her pool of unis was very small and given she wanted a top uni, vastly reduced and obvs very competitive. I would have a good look at the choice of unis, I'm sure as Tiz said there will be plenty as mfl are in demand but I would also prioritise the economics element. Bath is good for this as well as the well known others.

Thank you both !
@Drivebye what is dual
economics?
@TizerorFizz thanks, in the near future the aim is to try and improve the ucas application or have it looked more favorable as economics is so competitive. I guess employment is only as relevant as the fluency in the language is and how much they will be using it
thanks so much

Sorry I used the incorrect term, it's joint honours also called liberal arts degrees. It's where you study 2 or more subjects.

DD looked at joint economics and language degree in 2019-2020 but ended up applying for economics only. Reason was that joint degree was not offered at all unis she was interested in and the one's that did offer joint indicated if she got an offer for economics then she could take the language as an outside course and switch to the joint after one or two years (Scottish unis) as the language usually had spaces. In the event she didn't take the language as Covid happened and she was worried about doing a difficult language ab initio remotely. If she had done the joint she wouldn't have missed any of the core or optional economics modules until 3rd year (same for the language). Third year would have been abroad so would have been 2:1 language:economics and the reverse 1:2 in fourth year. So only half of the pure economics degree and all the compulsory courses but little room for options.

I know the Bristol language and year abroad used to be gcse entry. It’s offered to Engineers who rarely have a MFL A level! It’s very hard work to learn engineering in French at a Grande Ecole!

You would have to look at entry requirements. Warwick puts French first and wants AAB. Bristol is Economics with Study Abroad and wants A*AA. So where you put the “French” matters! Bristol also want French AS which could be difficult.