PPE, Political Economy & Civic Thought in U.S. Higher Education
Undergraduate Program Explorer
Start here: Undergraduate Program Explorer. This default view maps documented U.S. undergraduate programs in PPE, political economy, and civic thought/leadership. The site also documents their economics requirements, related curricular initiatives, and institutional civic infrastructure. This incomplete working collection concerns formal undergraduate academic programs; minors are especially difficult to identify systematically because IPEDS does not report minor completions. Omission does not establish institutional absence. See Scope, Methods & Limitations.
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Disciplinary balance0 classifiable
No classifiable programs match the current filters.
The triangle positions each program according to the disciplinary balance of its required curriculum.
The three vertices represent the disciplines that define PPE and Civic Thought programs:
Economics (E) at the top, Politics and Law (P) at the bottom-left, and Philosophy (Φ) at the bottom-right.
Each program's location reflects the share of required courses that fall into each category.
A program near the Economics vertex requires proportionally more economics; one near the centre has a roughly even spread across all three.
Point size shows how many required courses we could classify for each program. Larger points are more reliably placed.
Not every program appears here. We only position programs for which we can assign at least three required
courses to economics, politics/law, or philosophy (what we call "classifiable" programs).
Programs built primarily around integrative or cross-disciplinary courses, a common feature of Civic Thought programs,
cannot be reliably placed this way and are excluded from this view, though they remain fully searchable in the Programs tab.
Hover over any point to see the institution name, program name, and exact disciplinary shares;
click to open a full program card without leaving the chart.
Site build and snapshot dates are distinct from source checks. See snapshot metadata; source dates are recorded with individual records.