Economics & Management or PPE ?

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Reply 1

wazzup

they offer the same career prospects. both are very well respected.

Reply 2

Oldmannow

from what i heard people doing PPE are more into the Civil-Service kind of thing whilst E+M guys are more into IB....obviously this shouldn't be taken as 100% since it is somewhat anecdotal evidence based on what some of the E+M posters have said on this forum. Either way...obviously he should apply for the subject which he likes more + can prepare a better application for...

good luck to him :yy:

Reply 3

wazzup

yes and PPEs are also more into management consultancy.

Reply 4

Sternau

wazzup

they offer the same career prospects. both are very well respected.

Whilst both are respeted courses, you are wrong to state that they're the same. PPE is far better for policy-making, many areas of sivil service and academia, E&M is better for IB, consultancy, more specialised postgrad, or audit. A disadvantage for PPE students career-wise is that some of the networking events are exclusively business-school, which means E&M (and EEM) only. Also, PPE is the more academic course, E&M is applied (though still scientific), and thus the average student doing E&M is more career-fcused than your average PPE student. Lastly, employers tend to slightly favour E&M applicants because E&M has decidedly more apps per place.

Neither course will stop you from being successful, and all the factors mentioned can be compensated for by other stuff: extracurricular activities, grades, internships etc. But in terms of immediate career prospects, they are (on average) definitely not equal.