BA in Economics and Management
Majors: Finance and Financial Consulting; Finance, Insurance, and Pension Management; Information Systems; and an individualized major
Advantages of the program: The Economics and Management Department at the Ruppin Academic Center was the first academic department in economics established outside a university framework in Israel. Since 1978, the department has educated over 1,500 economists, who fill key positions in Israel’s business arena and economy today.
About the field: Economics is the social science that investigates economic activity in order to understand the processes that determine the production, distribution, and consumption of merchandise and services in the economy. An undergraduate degree in economics is in high demand and opens doors to the students who earn it. Economists are employed in a variety of businesses in the financial sector, from banks, insurance companies, investment firms and commercial companies to public institutions and organizations and government and other bodies.
