Advanced Diploma in Microeconomics
Course Overview
The Advanced Diploma in Microeconomics at LSLPE is a UK Level 5 senior-track qualification running 12 to 15 months across on-campus, online and distance-learning routes. The programme is aligned with Royal Economic Society applied training standards, Society of Professional Economists best-practice guidance, Government Economic Service senior-track competencies and Competition and Markets Authority analytical practice. It carries credit transfer into UK Bachelor's top-up programmes.
By graduation you will have modelled a consumer choice problem, estimated a demand system, produced a competition-analysis brief and completed a portfolio submission on a live regulatory decision.
Key Features
- Curriculum aligned with Royal Economic Society applied training standards, SPE guidance and GES senior-track competencies.
- Case-room seminars using CMA market investigations, Ofgem price-control decisions and academic industrial-organisation working papers.
- Applied econometrics workstations using Stata and R.
- Competition analysis workshops on merger and market investigation cases.
- Named programme-tutor support across all three study modes.
- Credit transfer into UK Bachelor's top-up programmes confirmed in writing at enrolment.
What You Will Learn
- Consumer theory including preferences, utility and demand.
- Producer theory including cost and supply.
- Partial and general equilibrium analysis.
- Game theory and strategic interaction.
- Industrial organisation including oligopoly and market power.
- Market design including auctions and matching markets.
- Behavioural microeconomics and bounded rationality.
- Applied demand estimation and price elasticity.
Who This Course Is For
- Economists in Whitehall departments, regulators and central agencies.
- Analysts in competition and pricing consultancies.
- Corporate strategy analysts moving into applied microeconomics.
- Aspiring senior-track GES candidates.
- International applicants with prior economics training entering UK practice.
Career Pathways
- Regulatory Economist
- Economic Consultant
- Government Economist
- Research Economist
- Investment Analyst on regulated sectors
- Financial Economist
- Behavioural Economist
- Economic Policy Analyst
The LSLPE careers service holds at least one careers day each academic year connecting Advanced Diploma in Microeconomics students with employers across the CMA, sector regulators, City economic consultancies and IFS-adjacent think tanks.
Entry Requirements
- A relevant Diploma (Level 4), Foundation Year, or at least two years of relevant professional experience in economics, competition, pricing or financial analysis.
- GCSE English at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C or equivalent.
- IELTS 6.0 overall (no band below 5.5) for non-native English speakers.
- One academic or professional reference.
- Applicants with modelling or econometric portfolios are encouraged to include them.
Why Study at LSLPE
LSLPE is the specialist law, politics and economics division of Harold International College of London, teaching in small tutor-visible cohorts within a short tube ride of the CMA, Ofgem, Ofcom and the City. The Advanced Diploma in Microeconomics reads its subject through the working papers, market investigations and decision letters that shape live UK regulatory economics.
Three parallel study modes let progressors, working practitioners and portfolio-route applicants complete the Advanced Diploma without leaving employment, and the LSLPE careers service refreshes curriculum annually against Royal Economic Society and SPE guidance.
Apply for Advanced Diploma in Microeconomics
Applications for the Advanced Diploma in Microeconomics open with rolling intakes and admissions responds within one working day. Enrol on a UK Level 5 Advanced Diploma at LSLPE with credit transfer into Bachelor top-ups confirmed in writing at enrolment, and take a credentialed UK step into senior microeconomic analysis. Enrol Now
