Welcome to the University of Warwick Autumn Open Day This is PPE

1. Andrew Reeve September 22nd 2012 Welcome to the University of Warwick Autumn Open Day This is PPE

2. Introducing myself + companion • I am a Professor of Politics. • I specialise in political theory. • I am the current PPE Director of Studiesand one of the people who created the programme (first entry 2004) • Contact: a.w.reeve@warwick.ac.uk Axel Marko is a current student and vice-President of the PPE Society.

3. Road Map • What is PPE? • Who takes PPE and where do they go afterwards? • What does Warwick offer? • What qualities do you need? • How much does it cost? • Some questions only you can answer. • Questions as we go along, or at the end …

4. What is PPE? • Philosophy, Politics, and Economics have been taught together in Britain since the 1920s. • First university to offer this course was Oxford. • Today PPE is offered by many excellent universities: • From UK, France, and Germany to North America, China, Japan, and Australia. • Among them is Warwick.

5. What is PPE? • When you study PPE at Warwick, you follow the three disciplines together. • Contrast the Oxford PPE, based on a pillar model with three independent elements. • Warwick follows a bridge model that seeks to cross gaps between Philosophy, Politics and Economics. • To illustrate, Principles of Political Economy is core module of the final year. • Taught by members of staff from all three disciplines. • Integrates study of all three disciplines. • Focuses on the global political economy. • Topics have included global justice, development, globalization and international trade, global governance, and aid and humanitarian interventions.

6. What is PPE? Philosophy, Politics, and Economics may be studied separately here. Warwick has undergraduate degrees in each of those disciplines (‘single-honours’) e.g. B.A. (Politics), B.Sc.(Economics) There are also many ‘joint-honours’ degrees e.g. History and Politics, Economics & Politics and International Studies.

7. Who takes PPE? Across three years of study we now have 279 undergraduates from 40 countries, 40% of whom are women. PPE is an international experience. Top Ten by number (after UK): India, Singapore, China, Germany, France, Malaysia, Norway, Sweden, Pakistan, Denmark.

8. Who takes PPE? Demand for PPE is strong. • Annually we receive around 1,000 applications. • We make around 300 offers. • We filled 94 placesthis year. (Compare 35 in 2004!) • Candidates from outside EU are around one in four at all points in the cycle. • This year almost unchanged from last year. Strong demand for places is tough for applicants, but it does reflect the fact that Warwick PPE is a valuable qualification to achieve. PPE saw no drop in demand this year, but applications for many courses dropped by as much as 25%.

9. Where do they go? • PPE a highly respected degree. • Most graduate positions open to any discipline, so Warwick’s reputation also counts strongly: • At our largest careers fair, 82% of employers recruited from any degree. • Warwick consistently among Top Ten universities targeted by top graduate recruiters: • Association of Graduate Recruiters survey. • Warwick the top UK university for careers advice: • International Student Barometer 2010, an independent survey of student opinion.

10. Where do they go?

11. Where do they go? Employers included: BDO International; centre forum; Clinphone/Perceptive Informatics; Deloitte; Ernst & Young; Global Environment Institute; Goldman Sachs; HomeServe Plc; Investigo; JP Morgan; Kingston Smith; KPMG; Mayfield Asset Management; McQuarrie Capital; N M Rothschild; OHO Group; Oxford University Press; RBC Capital Markets; the Polish Ministry of Health; Royal Bank of Scotland; Singapore Tourism Board; Smith & Williamson; South Bank Employers Group; War on Want. Median salary £20k to 24.9k (of those who chose to record it)

12. Where do they go? • Of those going on to further study: • Taught Master's programme: 60% • Postgraduate diploma: 20% PG diplomas often lead to a taught Master's in a related subject. • Professional qualification: 10% • Master’s programmes: • Either at highly ranked UK institutions (Imperial College London, London School of Economics, Oxford, University College London, Warwick). Or overseas, e.g. Sciences-Po (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris). • Typically in: Economics, development studies, finance, philosophy, history, management, international security, European or international political economy, political thought or political science, public administration, and public policy.

13. What does Warwick offer? • Three PPE Departments: Philosophy, Economics and Politics and international Studies (PAIS). • All are strong in both research and teaching. • All run their own more specialized programmes too. • All three are large: • Well-resourced administratively. • Support a dedicated PPE Office. • Scope to cover all main fields of discipline. • All are close neighbours in the Social Sciences building. • We talk to each other a lot.

14. What does Warwick offer? • Year 1 is a qualifying year: Pass to proceed. • There are core (compulsory) modules. • Introduction to Philosophy. • Introduction to Politics. • Economics 1: micro- and macroeconomics. • Quantitative Techniques: maths and statistics. • Plus an optional subject.

15. What does Warwick offer? • Choose first-year option from a list. • Several provided within the three departments. • Philosophy: Introduction to Ancient Philosophy; Ideas of Freedom. • Politics: World Politics. • Economics: World Economy: History and Theory; The Industrial Economy; Mathematics for Economists. • Others provided by other departments in Social Sciences or Arts, including a language.

16. What does Warwick offer? • After the first year there are several pathways. • At Foundation (year 1) level, PPE combines all three disciplines. • At Honours level (years 2 and 3), you can focus: • On all three disciplines or, at a first approximation, drop one. • More or less on quantitative methods used in economics. • Six pathways: • Tripartite (all three disciplines). • Phil/Pol. • Phil/Econ. • Pol/Econ. • Econ major/Phil. • Econ major/Pol.

17. What does Warwick offer? • No one drops any discipline altogether. • The final year Principles core has three units: Phil/Pol, Phil/Econ, Pol/Econ. • In Principles, everyone must do two units out of three, so three disciplines.

18. What does Warwick offer? • Academic support: Lectures. • Usually one or two per week in each module, attended by all students taking the module • Seminars. • Small discussion groups with a tutor, usually once per week in each module. • Regular assessment and feedback. • Essays, tests, projects, exams, final-year dissertation. • PPE Student-Staff liaison committee. • Private study and self-motivation are vital. • University services. • Library and Learning Grid (24/7) Space for group work. • Excellent careers advice and skills provision.

19. What does Warwick offer? Study abroad: PPE students have access to links set up by all three PPE departments. Erasmus programme (mainly Economics and PAIS). • Adds a year of study abroad between Years 2 and 3. • Graduate after four years in “PPE with study abroad.” • Austria (Salzburg),Belgium (UFSI, Antwerp), France (IEP de Bordeaux, Grenoble, Paris; CU, Lille; Sciences Po, Paris; Paris Sorbonne), Germany (Jena, Konstanz, Munich), Italy (CU Milan; Pavia); Netherlands (Amsterdam), Norway (Bergen), Portugal(Nova, Lisbon), Spain (Autonoma, Barcelona; PompeuFabra, Barcelona; Carlos III, Madrid; UC, Madrid).

20. What does Warwick offer? Exchange programmes (Politics and Philosophy). • Study abroad during Year 2, mirroring the Warwick Year 2 programme. • Graduate after three years. • Canada (Queen’s University Ontario), China (City University of Hong Kong), USA (Georgetown, Washington, DC; University of California; University of Wisconsin-Madison).

21. What does Warwick offer? • Pastoral support. • your personal tutor • PPE Director of Studies and Senior Tutor also available. • University services. • Senior Tutor. • Student Counsellors (including finance and welfare) • Student Union advice services.

22. What does Warwick offer? • PPE Society organizes student mentors. • PPE Society organizes guest lectures at Warwick as well as social events for PPE students. Diana Coyle, advisor to the UK Treasury, member of the Competition Commission, and author of The Economics of Enough. Andrew Gamble, head of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge and author of Spectre at the Feast. Sir Geoffrey Bindman, human rights lawyer and chair of the British Institute of Human Rights. Theodore Zeldin, philosopher-historian and president of the Oxford Muse. Oliver James, psychologist and author of Affluenza.

23. What does Warwick offer? • Launch of the PPE Forum • Book sale at the start of each academic year • PPE Society’s biggest social event is the annual PPE Ball. • New from this year on: • PPE Sports Teams • PPE Foreign Tour

24. What qualities do you need? • A capacity for hard work and perseverance. • Willingness to take on new subjects. • Managing being unsettled by unfamiliar ways of thinking. • Versatility • Solving an economic model for equilibrium one week. • Tackling moral dilemmas the next. • Looking at the political science of elections the week after that. • Willingness to ignore intellectual boundaries. • Ultimately all knowledge is ‘joined up’ • Warwick is a university

25. What qualities do you need? • Numeracy as well as literacy. • No one takes pride in illiteracy……. ….but there are already lots of clever people who “don’t do maths.” • Why is maths useful in PPE? • Simplification. • Abstract thinking. • Logical proof. • What data do and do not show. • The maths is generally simple and we don’t require A-level. • But you do need to be comfortable with it. • And not to see solving simple problems as mere drudgery. • PPE at Warwick may not be for you if you really hate maths.

26. What do you need? • Our typical entry conditions: • Grades A*AA at A-level + grade B at AS level. • Score 38 points in the IB. • Our one subject requirement: • Grade A in GCSE Mathematics. • We look for academic potential: • Traditional subjects, so History, Economics, Maths, English, Modern Languages, and Sciences, especially when there is a spread of subjects. • We also look for evidence of: • Interest in at least two of the three disciplines, especially Philosophy,because you can apply separately for more specialized degree courses, or our BSc in Economics, Politics & International Studies.

27. How much will it cost? • Tuition fees: In 2013/14, new full time Home and EU students will pay £9,000 annually. • Fees are payable for each year of your course. • Partial fees for an intercalated year or year abroad. • No one has to find this money “up front.” • All Home and EU students are eligible for a tuition fee loan for each year of their course from Student Finance England . • Repayable once you earn £21,000 or more. • Written off after 30 years. • The government bears the risk if your studies do not lead to the income stream hoped for.

28. How much will it cost? • Living costs: We estimate £156 to £250 a week for 39 week academic year ≈ £6,000 to £10,000. • Exactly how much depends on you! • All Home students are eligible for loans towards living costs, available from the Government. • Repayable once you earn £21,000 or more. • Some Home students will be eligible for means-tested non-repayable grants, available from both the Government and the University. • Non-repayable Warwick bursaries are based on annual family income.

29. How much will it cost? Details available on line: University: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/ugfunding Government: http://www.direct.gov.uk/yourfuture

30. Some questions only you can answer • Do you want to study PPE? • If so, do you want to come to Warwick? • Some things to consider: • Numeracy as well as literacy. • PPE versus more specialized courses. • Campus university versus city university. • Midlandsversus other regions.

31. Any questions for now?