PPE at Yale-NUS

The PPE major at Yale-NUS falls within both the social sciences and the humanities and focuses on the intersections of philosophy, politics, and economics. At its best, PPE integrates these disciplines. Though many PPE courses at Yale-NUS will focus on just one area of study, PPE capstones are expected to deploy methods, topics, or approaches from at least two of the major’s constituent disciplines.

Students in the PPE major will integrate multiple disciplinary perspectives in choosing a capstone topic or research question such as:

• How do our economic, political and legal orders interact to affect the distribution or redistribution of material resources, political rights and duties, or forms of recognition and honour?
• Are mechanisms of decision-making in our political and economic institutions complementary or conflicting, and how are these differences grounded in various philosophical, religious, or ethical traditions?
• What different forms are taken by justice, equality, responsibility, or liberty in various economic, political, and legal institutions?

Careers with a PPE Degree

The PPE major teaches students how to think creatively across boundaries and to address a range of different subject areas in a critical fashion. It is also designed to combine social scientific forms of knowledge and modes of analysis with more philosophical and normative methods of inquiry. For these reasons, the PPE major prepares students for a wide range of careers including law, public policy, government, management consulting, non-governmental organisation (NGO) work, business, social work, journalism, market analysis, accounting, finance, and academia. See below for a sample list of the career destinations of our PPE alumni:

• Facebook
• TikTok
• KPMG
• Accenture
• Barclays
• World Bank
• GIC
• Enterprise Singapore
• Procter & Gamble
• Eden Strategy Institute, LLP

Many of our PPE students also choose to pursue graduate studies in public policy, business administration, Asian studies, and Chinese studies, to name just a few. See below for some of the graduate schools to which PPE students have been admitted in the past: 

• Boston University (Religion and Ethics ), USA
• Columbia University, USA
• INSEAD, Singapore
• Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore
• Peking University (Yenching Scholar), China
• Tsinghua University (Schwarzman Scholars Programme), China
• University of Chicago, USA
• University of Oxford (Art History; Environmental Change & Management), UK
• University of Southern California, USA
• Yale University (East Asian Studies; Psychology), USA