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Any opinions on York's PPE?

Hi, just wanted to ask what the general opinion was on York's PPE course here. I was combing through the 2020 PPE applicants thread and saw that not many people applied to York. Though I saw older threads claiming that York's programme was the second after Oxford and quite respectable.

I might be headed there and was wondering how it compared to other PPE courses in Kings/Durham/Warwick/Manchester.
claiming second after oxford is folly since york, durham and warwick all sit at a similar level

and maybe kings


pick the one with the right options for you. most people dislike something about ppe and not all of them give you as much choice in specialising
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Original post by HoldThisL
claiming second after oxford is folly since york, durham and warwick all sit at a similar level

and maybe kings


pick the one with the right options for you. most people dislike something about ppe and not all of them give you as much choice in specialising

Thanks for the reply. If I might ask, what do you mean by "right options"?
Original post by MZWPout
Thanks for the reply. If I might ask, what do you mean by "right options"?

module choices. some ppe degrees are require quantitative modules, some don't offer them very widely at all. others let you drop one of p, p, or e, others will require all three to be continued
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Original post by HoldThisL
module choices. some ppe degrees are require quantitative modules, some don't offer them very widely at all. others let you drop one of p, p, or e, others will require all three to be continued

Apologies if this sounds uninitiated, but what are quantitative modules, and how do non quantitative PPE courses differ from the quantitative ones?
Original post by MZWPout
Apologies if this sounds uninitiated, but what are quantitative modules, and how do non quantitative PPE courses differ from the quantitative ones?

quantitative modules in ppe are maths and stats. later in the degree they become mathematical economics, econometrics and some others

most courses offer them and some lead to a BSc because of that. most require maths and stats in the first year, so in that sense every ppe is a bit quantitative because its required to be a good economist, but some are more quantitative degrees than others
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Original post by MZWPout
Apologies if this sounds uninitiated, but what are quantitative modules, and how do non quantitative PPE courses differ from the quantitative ones?


Original post by HoldThisL
quantitative modules in ppe are maths and stats. later in the degree they become mathematical economics, econometrics and some others

most courses offer them and some lead to a BSc because of that. most require maths and stats in the first year, so in that sense every ppe is a bit quantitative because its required to be a good economist, but some are more quantitative degrees than others

Yep, I do Maths/Econ at York. The PPE course has an 'econometrics' route which means you cover less politics/philosophy but more maths relevant to econ in the 1st year and then the econometrics module in 2nd year.

If you can see yourself specialising more towards econ, I would recommend this route especially as many econ modules in 3rd year don't have many prerequisites outside of the modules you would take in 2nd year. There are many essay based modules in econ like political economics, social policy, alternative economics, economic history etc which cater more to PPE students. Politics and phil modules don't *really* have this crossover, unless you take the cross-department PPE specific modules.
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Thank you all for your inputs!
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Original post by HoldThisL
quantitative modules in ppe are maths and stats. later in the degree they become mathematical economics, econometrics and some others

most courses offer them and some lead to a BSc because of that. most require maths and stats in the first year, so in that sense every ppe is a bit quantitative because its required to be a good economist, but some are more quantitative degrees than others

Ah thank you for clearing that up for me. Yes I've heard that some are very quantitative then, Durham requires an A in Mathematics or they simply won't accept you

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