Degree benefits
  • Enjoy a learning environment created by UCL's internationally recognised research Departments of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics.
  • Acquire applied and policy knowledge with UCL's PPE, housed in the School of Public Policy and home of our Policy and Practice Seminar series with its eminent list of speakers.
  • Gain a wider set of methods skills or choose the Quantitative Methods stream, to provide evidence for policy problems and prepare for research and work inside and outside academia.
  • Take a degree inspired by UCL's founding tradition in political economy and its historic Bloomsbury location.

Careers

  • The Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree exposes students to the modes of reasoning, types of evidence, and methods used by the three disciplines, a concentration in two disciplines, and case examples of the contributions of a multidisciplinary approach to complex problems.
  • The degree combines an education in social sciences and philosophy with a sustained treatment of the methods of social and normative inquiry. Drawing on multiple lines of inquiry, the degree prepares students for the contemporary and increasing likelihood of a multi-career working life.
  • Philosophy, Politics and Economics BSc is the gold standard of multidisciplinary degrees for those seeking careers in the public sector, the media and the policy community.