US colleges offering PPE Major

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I’m a high school student who wants to apply for PPE (Philosophy, Politics, Economics) major in US universities.
I’m not too sure which universities offer PPE major. I was only able to look into Wikipedia which seems not reliable. Can someone please list all the universities that offer PPE major in the US?

Thanks

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Claremont McKenna College (CMC)
PomonaCollege

Duke/UNC joint program

University of Arizona
Iowa
Michigan
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Yale
Virginia
Notre Dame
Denison University

University of Richmond

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You may want to research schools with an available public policy concentration, which relies on the fields of political science, economics and philosophy for its foundation. The site linked below includes these colleges:

Carleton College
Hamilton College
Pomona College

Brown University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
Vanderbilt University

College of William & Mary
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Virginia

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PPE programs are more variable than you might think- be sure to read the details on any program you are thinking about, particularly the requirements and to how integrated (or not) the strands are with each other. IME most students do not study P, P, and E equally, so make sure that you like the shape of each specific program. Also, PPE is not a difficult major to build at most colleges. PPE is mostly famous as a major b/c of the political success of a lot of Oxford PPEists, and doesn’t carry the same weight elsewhere.

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U Richmond offers a PPE major.

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Schools may call it different names. For example, Pitt has a Politics and Philosophy major that includes course requirements in economics. Not sure if it’s completely the same, but it’s in the same vein.

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Thanks!!

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Brown doesn’t have an official PPE program, but it’s a rather common independent concentration. IAPA (international and public affairs), poli sci, and econ also are often paired in various configurations of double concentration.

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At the Claremont Colleges, you can access the PPE major from Pomona, Claremont McKenna, and Scripps. At CMC, it’s an honors tutorial program with competitive admissions once there: https://www.cmcppe.org/
Others to look at, many of which are already mentioned above:
Wesleyan College of Social Studies - Wesleyan University
URichmond Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law - School of Arts & Sciences -- University of Richmond
Pitt (honors college) http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/academics/politics-and-philosophy-major
Tulane Undergraduate Program in Political Economy | The Murphy Institute
Denison Philosophy, Politics & Economics | Denison University
UofArizona (honors college) B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law | Political Economy and Moral Science
UPenn https://ppe.sas.upenn.edu/
USC Program: Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA) - University of Southern California - Acalog ACMS™
tOSU https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/academics/majors/philosophy-politics-economics
Rutgers (minor) The Daily Targum
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