What A Levels should I take for PPE at Univeristy?

Hi!

I’ve been considering my A Level options and I’m really stuck on what to take. Hopefully in the future I would love to study PPE at university and was wondering whether A Level Mathematics is required for this course. It says that it’s not but would it put me in front off other candidates. My predicted maths GCSE grade is a 7

Thanks

Reply 1

CasMom

Politics, Philosophy and Economics A-level would probably be a start

Reply 2

Simbess

Exactly as the above poster said, probably taking the PPE A levels themselves would be a good shout, considering those are specifically what the university will be looking for knowledge / exploration / growth in. However if you're considering a 4th Maths might be more useful than another option, as it would probably help with the economics side of things :smile:

Reply 3

Year10Studentt

I mean I’m looking to take Literautre, Government & Politics and Psychology but I was looking to ditch psychology for Mathematics?

Reply 4

The Old Vampire

Maths
Philosophy
Economics - if you want
History / Politics

Reply 5

Realitysreflexx

Politics, Philosophy, Economics?

Surely they would appreciate that,

or Sub in Maths if your going for a really high ranked university.

Reply 6

Year10Studentt

Unfortunately my Sixth Form do not do a PPE A Level☹️

Reply 7

LBClondon

Absolutely do maths! Most universities won't take students for economics who didn;t take Maths A-levels, and many require an A*. This is because economics at uni is very maths based. If you don;t like maths then PPE is probably not for you...but definitely ditch psychology for maths if you can

Reply 8

Simbess

Original post by Year10Studentt

I mean I’m looking to take Literautre, Government & Politics and Psychology but I was looking to ditch psychology for Mathematics?

Do the universities you want to go to have a requirement for A level subjects? As much as they might not all say it, you'd only be doing one of the 3 specialities which the degree consists of. I don't know, it might work in your favour, but definitely check the websites first - chances are most candidates will want to do those 3 A levels for that course :smile:

@Doonesbury might be able to advise?

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Reply 9

3121

A lot of unis explicitly state you need maths or they have a preference for it, especially if you’re planning to specialise in economics. I would suggest a combination of Maths + economics, politics, philosophy or history

Reply 10

Simbess

I mean if you're still in year 10 you've got lots of time to think about it - I've actually just had a look at the university of York's offer (first one that came up in a google search) and they reduce it from A*AA to AAA if one of them is Maths.. Link below, but definitely worth having a look if it's what you're definitely set on.
https://www.york.ac.uk/pep/undergraduate/ppe/#course-applying

Reply 11

Simbess

If you weren't to take Economics, some of the higher up universities actually require a maths A level in some way (York / Durham kind of level). Do some research on it first compared to asking a random student forum - all of what I've found has taken me 5 minutes and it'll take you probably the same :smile:

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Reply 12

dinglebells

Maths, Literature, History

Reply 13

Year10Studentt

Lots of people are saying History, but I didn’t choose it as a GCSE☹️

Reply 14

Year10Studentt

Original post by Simbess

I’m in Year 11 just made the name a year ago😂 Thank You!!

Reply 15

Holy Pieter

Maths, Philosophy, and either History or English.

Reply 16

BogStandard

Do not listen to the people who say to take the PPE subjects, maths is much much more important.

The best combination probably is Maths, Economics, History. But this is only a suggestion. In order to be competitive you must have maths + an essay writing (humanities) subject. If you didn't take history for gcse, you could always ask to do it at A level, or take English Lit or RS etc. instead.