Economics teaching has a long history at Birmingham, dating to the establishment of the Faculty of Commerce in 1903 and a separate Honours School of Economics and Social and Political Science in the Faculty of Arts, established almost 30 years later Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, JG Smith Building, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK Business education was pioneered at Birmingham and our range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research degree programmes, designed to provide both academic excellence and vocational relevance, have been at the heart of our activities since 1902