<p>Don’t know if this matters to you, but CWRU’s economics department is in the business division, and appears to have less of a math emphasis than that of MSU.</p>
<p>MSU requires a semester of calculus for its intermediate microeconomics and econometrics courses. The corresponding CWRU courses are not calculus-based, except that students have the option of a calculus-based or non-calculus-based intermediate microeconomics course.</p>
<p><a href=“Undergraduate Courses | Undergraduate Programs | Department of Economics | Michigan State University”>http://econ.msu.edu/undergraduate/courses.php</a>
<a href=“Economics | Weatherhead School of Management | Case Western Reserve University”>http://weatherhead.case.edu/departments/economics/courses</a></p>
<p>If you intend to go on to PhD study in economics, MSU is probably better from a curriculum standpoint (there are other schools with significantly greater math emphasis in undergraduate economics, but they are also much more selective, like MIT, Chicago, Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley), but pre-PhD preparation also needs substantial advanced math courses in any case.</p>
<p>If your goals are more pre-professional, you may want to check the career center of each school to see what employers recruit economics majors and economics majors’ post-graduation outcomes. It appears that (if you dig around enough) you can find a list of employers for graduating economics majors for each school, though stats like percentage employed, pay levels, etc. by major may not be available in the publicly shown documents (and such stats may not be directly comparable between schools, due to differences in survey and reporting methodology).</p>
<p><a href=“http://careernetwork.msu.edu/exploring-options/destination-survey.html”>http://careernetwork.msu.edu/exploring-options/destination-survey.html</a>
<a href=“Post-Graduate Planning and Experiential Education | Case Western Reserve University”>https://students.case.edu/careers/students/explore/survey/</a></p>