O.P. Jindal University Launches 4 Year BA Hons Course in PPE, Shashi Tharoor Graces Event

JGU's four-year Bachelor of Arts (Hons) programme in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) will begin in the month of August 2025 in order to integrate different disciplines for analytical and critical thinking skills.

O.P. Jindal Global University has announced the four-year Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) for interested and eligible students. The programme will begin in August 2025 at the university premises. The curriculum of the JGU BA PPE programme is to integrate different disciplines to develop analytical and critical thinking skills among students and future professionals. The PPE programme is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary course that encourages a far more nuanced understanding of the global world.

The launch of the event was graced by Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha. During the event, Tharoor highlighted the need for PPE in today's fast-moving skill learning on the lookout for dynamic young men and women who are not only scientifically, technologically and entrepreneurially gifted but broad-minded, compassionate, erudite, skilled in interpersonal relationships and committed to humanist values.

He further said, "The Philosophy, Politics & Economics programme at O.P. Jindal Global University will bring vitality and verve to a course that provides both a rigorous, comprehensive education in the humanities and is a launchpad for a great assortment of professions, from journalism to politics, entrepreneurship to civic activism, academia to the law, in all of which, across the globe, the products of PPE have done exceedingly well, leaving an indelible imprint on the world, and often changing it for the better." 

Potential to Humanise the Understanding of Economic Problems

Meanwhile, Professor C. Raj Kumar Founding Vice Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University, highlighted his delight with the introduction of the programme saying "We are increasingly faced with a polarised world. When politics and philosophy are combined with the study of economics, we create the potential to humanise the understanding of economic problems and for institutions to have a better approach towards studying economics. To have a respectful disagreement and forge the space for that respectful disagreement is something that global politics, learnt in the right way, can enable. That is why bringing that into the course's academic content is important."

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