how long "university of oxford" ppe course

by Dr. Martine Windler MD 5 min read

3-year

Is PPE a good course at Oxford?

May 04, 2022 · Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Your weekly timetable will usually include six to eight lectures and two to three tutorials and classes, supplemented by private study, which will be mainly spent preparing essays or problem sets for tutorials and classes. Tutorials typically involve two to four students and a tutor.

How long does the PPE course take to complete?

The PPE degree celebrated its centenary in 2020. Over the last five decades, more than 16,000 students have graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Our students have gone on to an incredibly broad range of careers, from teaching to the civil service, data analysis to policy-making, journalism to politics, finance to the third sector.

Is PPE a university degree?

PPE at Balliol College. Balliol was the birthplace of the degree of PPE in the 1920s, and the College has long remained a major centre for the study of PPE. Nowadays, Balliol PPE is distinctive in three related ways. Firstly, we have a particularly large school of PPE undergraduates, and the College is committed to maintaining a strong teaching ...

Where can I find more detail about a PPE course?

Feb 23, 2017 · M onday, 13 April 2015 was a typical day in modern British politics. An Oxford University graduate in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE), Ed Miliband, launched the Labour party’s general ...

How many years is PPE Oxford?

three years
In the politics part of PPE, you can go three years without discussing a single contemporary public policy issue.Feb 23, 2017

How long does a PPE degree take?

The BSc Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) four year programme offers rigorous training in all three disciplines, as well as innovative interdisciplinary teaching and study.

How hard is it to study PPE at Oxford?

In recent years, about one in three (actually 33% in 2019) PPE applicants will get interviewed, and of those, one in three will be offered a place. So the odds are basically one in nine (though actually a little better, 1:8.5).Feb 1, 2021

How long is Oxford University degree course?

The majority of our undergraduate Bachelor of Arts (known as BA) degrees last three years. This is not always the case, for example if you are doing a language degree which involves a year abroad, your course may be four years.

WHAT A-levels do I need to study PPE at Oxford?

Academic requirements
A-levels:AAA
Advanced Highers:AA/AAB
IB:39 (including core points) with 766 at HL
Or any other equivalent (see other UK qualifications, and international qualifications)

How many PPE students are at Oxford?

In 2018 we received 2338 applications for PPE. 719 applicants (31%) were shortlisted for interview. 276 offers of places were made (including Open Offers1 and Deferred Offers2). 12% of all applicants, and 38% of shortlisted applicants, were successful.

Do you need further maths for PPE Oxford?

History and Maths are useful backgrounds, but are considered not essential. Although a background in Maths is not formally required for admission, PPE applicants should have sufficient interest in, and aptitude for, maths to cope with the mathematical elements of the course.

WHAT A levels do I need for PPE?

History, Economics and Maths are good subjects for PPE. A very high proportion of successful applicants have Maths; that's an important one and I would definitely stick with History. Geography is considered more academically rigorous than Psychology. Either would be fine as a fourth subject.Dec 1, 2019

Do you need to be good at maths for PPE?

You basically just have to be adequate at maths. If you are reasonably competent at maths, first year PPE mathematics will be fine - it's just that you may not want/be capable of taking up the more advanced econometric courses in 2nd/3rd year.

What are top 10 courses?

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Is Oxford better than Harvard?

The QS World University Rankings for 2022 have Oxford at second, Cambridge in joint third place and Harvard coming in at fifth. By contrast, the Times Higher Education Rankings puts Oxford in the first position, with Harvard in joint second and Cambridge in joint fifth.

Can I study in Oxford for free?

A number of Reach Oxford scholarships (formerly Oxford Student Scholarships) are offered to students from low-income countries who, for political or financial reasons, or because suitable educational facilities do not exist, cannot study for a degree in their own countries.

What is PPE in education?

PPE – Philosophy, Politics and Economics has a diverse curriculum which attracts students with a wide variety of interests and backgrounds. The PPE course balances breadth and depth, and it is consciously kept at the cutting-edge of research.

What is PPE in economics?

PPE – Philosophy, Politics and Economics has a diverse curriculum which attracts students with a wide variety of interests and backgrounds. The PPE course balances breadth and depth, and it is consciously kept at the cutting-edge of research. It encompasses specialist and technical training in economics, philosophy, and politics, together with in-depth study of an increasingly diverse range of social and political ideas and history. The degree requires and develops in students an ability to grasp, analyse, and evaluate essential information rapidly. It rewards both technical and humanistic insight.

How long is a PPE course?

The PPE Course is 3 years and is split into the first year where you build up a basic knowledge of all three disciplines in preparation for first year exams (called prelims or mods), and the second two years where you focus on elements of two or three disciplines in order to take final exams.

How many questions are asked in prelims?

This course is split into Microeconomics and Macroeconomics which both have a strong focus on the maths they involve. In prelims you must do 4 economics questions including 3 short questions and 1 long question, you must answer at least one question on macroeconomics and at least one question on microeconomics. You are likely to be taught Microeconomics one term and Macroeconomics the next this will usually be done in both tutorials and classes; maths will likely be taught in classes or extra tutorials through reference to the maths workbook which can be found on weblearn.

Do tutors tailor their expectations of subject knowledge to your level of previous study?

In all cases, tutors will tailor their expectations of subject knowledge to your level of previous study, (if you have an economics A Level you should know more terminology than someone who does not) so bear that in mind.

What is a slight derivation of the assumption question?

A slight derivation of the assumption question is one asking for a summary of the main argument (e.g. which answer "best expresses the conclusion") - once again check all answers - the correct one will summarise the conclusion, not just an assisting point. e.g.:

What is a PPE degree?

PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain. Oxford University graduates in philosophy, politics and economics make up an astonishing proportion of Britain’s elite.

Who is Ed Miliband?

An Oxford University graduate in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE), Ed Miliband, launched the Labour party’s general election manifesto. It was examined by the BBC’s political editor, Oxford PPE graduate Nick Robinson, by the BBC’s economics editor, Oxford PPE graduate Robert Peston, and by the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, ...

Who is Tim Harford?

On the BBC Radio 4 website, the Financial Times statistics expert and Oxford PPE graduate Tim Harford presented his first election podcast. On BBC1, Oxford PPE graduate and Newsnight presenter Evan Davies conducted the first of a series of interviews with party leaders.

Who is Nick Cohen?

In 2014, the columnist Nick Cohen, himself an Oxford PPE graduate, published his much-cited thoughts on the course in the conservative Spectator magazine. PPEists, he wrote, “form the largest single component of the most despised governing class since the [1832] Great Reform Act”.

Who was David Cameron's political tutor?

David Cameron did the degree from 1985 to 1988. His politics tutor Vernon Bogdanor famously said afterwards that Cameron was “one of the ablest students I ever taught”. Although Cameron was barely politically active at Oxford, within weeks of achieving a First he obtained a job in the Conservative Research Department, a fast track for future ministers. “You could see Cameron as a classic PPEist: worldly-wise, tutored in the ways of the media, the essay-crisis prime minister,” says the documentary-maker Michael Cockerell, who has made celebrated profiles of a succession of PPEist politicians, including Cameron, Ed Miliband, Roy Jenkins and the postwar Labour reformer Barbara Castle.

Who is Stewart Wood?

The Labour peer Stewart Wood, a former adviser to Ed Miliband, took the degree in the 1980s, taught politics at Oxford between 1995 and 2010, and still runs occasional seminars there for PPE students. “It does still feel like a course for people who are going to run the Raj in 1936,” he says.

What is a PPE degree?

Philosophy, Politics and Economics ( PPE) at Oxford University has traditionally been a degree read by those seeking a career in politics, public life (including senior positions in Her Majesty's Civil Service) and journalism.

Who is Tony Pua?

Tony Pua, Malaysian blogger and opposition MP. Radosław Sikorski, Polish politician and journalist, former minister of foreign affairs of Poland and Marshal of the Sejm. Aung San Suu Kyi, first State Counsellor of Myanmar, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Chris Thomas, former Isle of Man Minister for Policy and Reform.

Who is Chris Huhne?

Chris Huhne, former British Liberal Democrat MP (2005–13) and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (2010–12) Jeremy Hunt, British Conservative MP and former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. Baroness Jay, British Labour politician and former Leader of the House of Lords.

Who is Roy Jenkins?

Roy Jenkins, former Labour Cabinet minister and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK), President of the European Commission, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and co-found er of the Social Democratic Party. Gerald Kaufman, former British Labour MP. Ruth Kelly, former British Labour MP and Cabinet minister.

Who is Ed Miliband's brother?

David Miliband, former British Labour MP, former Foreign Secretary and older brother of Ed Miliband. Ed Miliband, British Labour MP, former Leader of the Labour party and former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Rhodri Morgan AM, Labour politician and First Minister for Wales.

Who is Ed Miliband?

Ed Miliband, British Labour MP, former Leader of the Labour party and former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Rhodri Morgan AM, Labour politician and First Minister for Wales. Lord Longford (1905–2001), prison reform advocate and politician.

Who is the first state counsellor of Myanmar?

Aung San Suu Kyi , first State Counsellor of Myanmar, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Chris Thomas, former Isle of Man Minister for Policy and Reform. Euclid Tsakalotos, finance minister of Greece and the country's chief negotiator with the Troika. Abhisit Vejjajiva, former Prime Minister of Thailand.

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Not Just at Oxford

  • Whilst this article is about 'PPE at Oxford', remember that a whole heap of other Universities offer PPE : Durham, KCL, Sussex, Birmingham , London (Holloway), Essex, Nottingham, Reading, Hull, UEA, Exeter, York, Lancaster, Leeds, Southampton, Belfast etc - and that you will need 5 choices on your UCAS application, not just Oxford, so remember to read their course descriptions as well.
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Should I Apply?

  • First read the Course Information about PPE. Then read this Guardianarticle about reasons for doing a PPE degree. Finally, read this piece from the BBC, 'Why does PPE rule Britain?'. Then just decide for yourself if any of these things matter to you, or if you have your own reasons for being interested in this multi-discipline, intensive degree.
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The PPE Course

  • The PPE Course is 3 years and is split into the first year where you build up a basic knowledge of all three disciplines in preparation for first year exams (called prelims or mods), and the second two years where you focus on elements of two or three disciplines in order to take final exams. A detailed guide to the PPE course can be found in the P...
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TSA Test

  • Introduction
    The TSA Oxford Test website The TSA (Thinking Skills Assessment) is sat by PPE and E&M (Economics and Management) students since 2008 when it replaced the original Oxford PPE admissions test. It is taken in October / November each year (4th November 2009) and you mus…
  • Paper 1: Multiple Choice
    The test comprises of 50 questions giving you approximately 1 min 45 seconds per question. The questions come in a variety of forms including (my terminology):
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Personal Statement: What Should I Show?

  • What does my Personal Statement need to include? 1. 1. Interest in PPE! - You must show that you are genuinely interested in spending 3 years of your life studying politics, philosophy and economics. Include comment on all three in your statement. 2. 2. Personal Drive - You must show that you can motivate yourself. Many people do this with an example where you showed person…
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Interviews

  • Firstly, here is what Oxford say about interviews: http://www.admissions.ox.ac.uk/interviews/ You'll be down in your college for c1-3 days for interview, so have a little fun, get to know the city if there's time, and don't work too hard (or better still don't work). Your interview time may consist of: - Welcoming Talk - Interviews - Interviews at other colleges (maybe) - Socialising with other inte…
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Career Potential

  • Here is a list of some of the better known people who did a PPE degree at Oxford. This doesn't of course guarantee you fame and fortune, but it does give you an indication of the wide variety of possible career paths beyond just 'politics'.
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