PPE and Civic Thought Programs

Descriptive catalog · CTREE 2026 working analysis

Author

Simon D. Halliday, Emily Marshall, Glory Liu, Anthony Underwood, Doug Norton

Published

June 26, 2026

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Note

Preliminary working dashboard built from the CTREE working data snapshot refreshed on May 28, 2026. The snapshot is still stored in outputs/ctree_2026/data_freeze_2026-05-16 for path stability. Simon’s wide-net rule applies: approved/future and legacy/deceased programs remain included when evidence supports the program, but are flagged rather than treated as ordinary active programs. Purely co-curricular centers, fellowships, initiatives, and related ecosystem records are tracked on the ecosystem dashboard rather than counted as undergraduate programs here.

Snapshot

334
Confirmed UG programs
323
Course-coded programs
11
Partial requirements
43
States represented
4
Approved / future
3
Legacy / deceased

Program Mix

Category Program level Programs
Civic thought / leadership Minor 80
Civic thought / leadership Major 67
Civic thought / leadership Certificate 18
Civic thought / leadership Honors track 1
PPE Major 72
PPE Minor 11
PPE Certificate 1
Political economy Major 63
Political economy Minor 19
Political economy Certificate 2

Requirements Coverage

How much of the curriculum is currently coded across the included sample?

Economics Requirements

Economics requirement rates are computed only over course-coded programs. Programs with partial or existence-only collection are treated as missing here, not as requiring zero economics.

Disciplinary Balance

Each program’s required courses are assigned to one of three disciplinary vertices — Economics (E), Politics / Law (P), and Philosophy (Φ) — under a strict mapping that excludes integrative courses (civics, multi- disciplinary, PPE gateway courses) from the denominator. Programs with at least three clearly-classified required courses are classifiable and plotted here; the remainder are noted below. See analysis/simplex/SIMPLEX_PLAN.md for the full methodology.

Note

Provisional analysis. The discipline mapping is pending co-author review. The integrative-course fractional allocation (Tier 2) requires sign-off before use. Only the strict Tier 1 coordinates are shown here.

Simplex coverage by category (strict, ≥3 classified required courses = classifiable)
Category Classifiable Low coverage Unclassifiable
Civic thought / leadership 38 39 89
PPE 81 2 1
Political economy 74 8 2

Geography

Program Records

All confirmed included programs with interpretation flags. Use the search box to find a specific institution or filter by flag type.

Audit Notes

Check Value
Frozen raw program rows 893
Rows available for analysis 890
Malformed registry rows quarantined from dashboard analysis 3

The dashboard is intentionally conservative about curricular conclusions: missing course requirements remain missing. The next analysis pass should decide whether to restrict economics-requirement rates to course-coded programs only, report both denominators, or model missingness directly.