The Bachelor's degree programme Economics and Finance is designed for students pursuing a career in private sector as specialists in finance and analysts or decision makers regarding economic questions of a firm. But it is not limited. The knowledge and skills you’ll acquire will benefit to your employment in public sector as policy makers or national and global institutions that aim to promote business and its environment.

The aim of the Program Economics and Finance is to educate students for the requirements of professional world in economics, in the context of globalization and economic integration; open minded when focusing on economics and financial topics and creatively applying tools of mathematical and statistical analysis, processing critical thinking, strengthening ability to analyze and assess the changes in economic environment.

Overview:

The program is unique in terms of composition of knowledge it provides.

First of all, it gives all the necessary background in economics: micro and macroeconomics, statistics and analysis tools.

Secondly, the credits in finance that are included in the program are enough to start your career in finance. Typically finance departments in private companies required both: understanding in corporate finance and analytical abilities to evaluate economic situation of a firm, to propose possible ways for improvement.

All that is concentrated in this one study program which also includes training analytical and research skill by writing research papers. And this is done in a shortest possible time period – only 3 years. The syllabus of the program is constructed in a way that the last semester is dedicated for internship and preparation of final thesis solely. So, it gives you a unique opportunity to do an internship anywhere in the world, to use the knowledge and skill you acquire there for preparation of bachelor thesis. This also allows you to start your career earlier. There are also good career opportunities in the field in Kaunas.

Competencies acquired:

The (business) economist should be able to:

• Do market analysis and give insights.
• Analyze and evaluate costs, give proposals for cost optimization.
• Calculate costs and profitability, analyze their factors, to form pricing.
• To prepare budgets and to control their implementation; to analyze deviations.
• To do economic analysis using financial indicators.
• To set indicators for activity assessment, to calculate them, to analyze.
• To evaluate the efficiency of activities, to give proposals for its increasement.
• To calculate the payback of investments.
• To apply mathematical, statistical, econometrical knowledge and methods for problem solutions.

Career opportunities:

After graduation of the programme you will be able to work in:

• Finance departments, strategy departments, analytical units of private companies.
• policy making sector.
• strategic and analytical units in public sector, business promotion agencies, research and analysis companies.
• Or continue further education in master level in he fields of social sciences, humanities and etc.