Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics

Monash's Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics is built around the deliberate intersection of three disciplines rather than treating them as separate majors studied side by side, training students to move fluently between political analysis, philosophical reasoning and economic thinking when tackling complex real-world problems. The degree works through the major ideas shaping current understanding of the social world before pushing students to apply those conceptual tools in practical, skills-based contexts, aiming to produce graduates comfortable with genuinely interdisciplinary problem-solving. It suits students who find a single-discipline social science degree too narrow for the kind of complex policy, governance and social problems they want to work on, whether that leads toward public policy, government, consulting, journalism or further postgraduate study in any of the three founding disciplines. The interdisciplinary grounding is the degree's central feature rather than an add-on to a standard politics or economics major.