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PPE v SPS

Any ideas?

OP

Discuss.

PPE for the Economics.

Reply 3

Anatheme

18

Social and Political Science
Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Enough said, SPS doesn't offer Philosophy and Economics as far as I'm aware.
And SPS for me 'cause I'm rubbish at Maths and don't really like Philosophy.

Reply 4

The West Wing

18

Anatheme

Social and Political Science
Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Enough said, SPS doesn't offer Philosophy and Economics as far as I'm aware.
And SPS for me 'cause I'm rubbish at Maths and don't really like Philosophy.

We have an economics choice in the first year, and to be perfectly honest we do more philosophy than anything else throughout our course!

Reply 5

The West Wing

18

Do a search, seriously.

SPS > All

PPE seems to be more respected and harder. i dont do neither of the courses, but thats the impression i get from everyone.
thats probably like comparing economics at cambridge (ppe) and economics and management at oxford (sps)

Reply 8

fraternité

SPS if you want to know how society works;
PPE if you want to tell people how society should work.

Reply 9

ahq

15

fraternité

SPS if you want to know how society works;
PPE if you want to tell people how society should work.

Surely, if you know how society works you can tell people how to better work it? :confused:

And you have to know how society works to be able to tell people how to work it? :confused:

Reply 10

parkerpen

Errr who is making the judgement that SPS is easier than PPE? Has anyone compared the exams? The marking procedures? Level of coursework?
The two subject share one compulsory topic in common: Politics
From what I understand it is very different politics at both universities. The only thing that is obviously less of a requirement at Cambridge is the ability to do Maths. Personally I think that doing statistics should be a compulsory part of the course and those doing sociology and psychology should do a lot.
The reason why people see PPE as more prestigious is that it has existed for a lot longer. the SPS/PPS tripos is about 25 years old so there are relatively few alumni (the vast majority of whom are too young to have become MPs, CEOs, cabinet ministers etc). I have no doubt that over the next 10-15 years that will change

Reply 11

Teebs

16

PPE is (one of) Oxford's flagship course. SPS is... not.

Reply 12

BillyMarsh

10

PPE only has the advantage due to the 'mathsy' element of economics.

SPS on the other hand is a very dynamic and interesting course which doesn't need to resort to maths to seem appealing.

Reply 13

Craghyrax

17

Its completely pointless to compare these two courses. They are entirely different and don't really have much to do with eachother. They're not in competition because they're offering entirely different material. Its a stupid thread.

wazzup

thats probably like comparing economics at cambridge (ppe) and economics and management at oxford (sps)

You have the wrong course to the wrong University :hmpf:

Reply 14

200428

3

im so academic

Discuss.

Will you actually quit making such bloody stupid threads? no-one cares, and it's a stupid question anyway.

gtfo. :yep:

Reply 15

wazzup

Craghyrax

Its completely pointless to compare these two courses. They are entirely different and don't really have much to do with eachother. They're not in competition because they're offering entirely different material. Its a stupid thread.

:eyeball: