<p>I want to double major in math and economics in college. I was wondering which schools besides Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and U-Chicago are good for that combination?</p>
<p>Stanford and Yale</p>
<p>Yale Economics isn't that great (sister was a Econ major)</p>
<p>You may want to consider Columbia and Berkeley (the latter especially if you don't mind perceived decrease in prestige compared to the other names mentioned here)</p>
<p>Berkeley would be amazing for Econ-Math double major, mad hard tho!</p>
<p>I am planning to apply to Stanford, but not Yale. </p>
<p>Currently my list is:
Harvard
MIT
Princeton
U-Chicago
Stanford
Caltech</p>
<p>I'm probably going to apply to at least two more schools. </p>
<p>What do you think about Caltech?</p>
<p>Caltech is a big no-no for economics...</p>
<p>and i hope you have some safety schools on that list.</p>
<p>btw: i turned down Caltech for Columbia because Caltech isn't even close to a traditional college experience</p>
<p>Columbia, Yale is stronger than Columbia in both math and economics. If he should consider Columbia, he then should consider Yale also.</p>
<p>If interest is primarily econ consider adding Northwestern/Penn/Columbia
If interest is more math based consider Cornell/Yale
Along with CalTech, might also want to consider nearby Harvey Mudd (with access to Econ at Claremont McK and Pomona via 5 college consortium)</p>
<p>Decision at this high level may ultimately come down to campus culture/non-academic issues</p>
<p>Columbia's economics department in the 60's was part of the Big 5-- Harvard, Chicago, MIT, Princeton and fell out subsequently. In the past 5 years, Columbia has won 3 Nobel Prizes in Economics and two other Nobels in Literature and Medicine respectively. I don't think Yale has done so. </p>
<p>But you're right. The difference is so negligible that if both should definitely be considered. Yale does have much more of a humanities trend than Columbia though.</p>
<p>Most top universities are good in both Econ and Math. Those are traditional majors that all universities must offer. At any rate, universities that are excellent in both Econ and Math include:</p>
<p>Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-San Diego
University of Chicago
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas-Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>Of course, many LACs are also excellent in those two subjects. Off the top of my head:</p>
<p>Amherst College
Brandeis University
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Colgate University
College of William and Mary
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Denison University
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Reed College
Swarthmore College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
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Caltech is a big no-no for economics...
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Only if you want to go into business. If you want to go into Econ grad school, Caltech will provide a rigorous preparation that few schools can match.</p>
<p>My personal pick would be the Claremont Colleges- Math Major at Harvey Mudd and also do an offcampus major in economics at CMC or something.</p>
<p>Are the Claremont colleges really the first that come to mind when thinking about dual majoring in Math and Econ? That doesn't make much sense.
Its excessively complicated to go to Harvey Mudd and have a dual major at CMC - especially when the following schools are better for Math/Econ and are well-known to the finance sector.</p>
<p>Rest of the Ivies - in particular Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth
Stanford, MIT, Duke, Northwestern, Chicago, NYU, Michigan
Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore</p>
<p>I would recommend NU, Duke, Dartmouth, Penn, and Columbia - all these schools have great college experiences, are highly recruited at, have strong student bodies in every measurable way, and are very well-known/respected nationally. </p>
<p>HMC is a great school but I feel having a student body of 150 per year is socially stiffling, and in terms of overall strength its still not on par with the rest of the Ivies and similar elite schools. Plus it doesn't have a traditional econ major on location.</p>
<p>Check out Northwestern's Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (MMSS), which is highly regarded by top firms (<a href="http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/current_students/Internship%20Directory.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/current_students/Internship%20Directory.pdf</a>), compliments econ major perfectly, and automatically fulfills the prereqs for the new finanical economics certificate program under Kellogg.
<a href="http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/</a>
<a href="http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/certificate/prospective/finance/prerequisites.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/certificate/prospective/finance/prerequisites.htm</a></p>
<p>For math you can go lots of places and have excellent education. For economics though I would take Columbia over Yale any day. They are both excellent schools, but Columbia has Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz and Edmund Phelps on staff, which is frickin unbelievable. </p>
<p>If you don't know what the big deal is, google those three.</p>
<p>"Its excessively complicated to go to Harvey Mudd and have a dual major at CMC - especially when the following schools are better for Math/Econ and are well-known to the finance sector."</p>
<p>Math at HMC is one of the best programs in the nation. Look at Putnam, MCM, PhD #'s and then remember that there are only a small number of students in the pool to pull from for those competitions. Mudd math holds its weight.</p>
<p>CMC has quite an excellent econ program...considering the school is primarily government and economics, I'd say it is a great place for that type of stuff...</p>
<p>Claremont should be on the list considering the two previously mentioned schools are part of the 5Cs.</p>
<p>rocketDA, if someone explicitly states they want to dual major in Math and Econ, I just think its surprising that someone would mention one of the few schools that doesn't have both majors. I guess Math is one of their best programs in the nation, but I don't see how Putnam results show anything - after all, Putnam reflects the results of a few geniuses. Regardless, Harvey Mudd wasn't top 10 out of the school teams. Still a great school, just a little small for me, and of course you can't major in both econ and math.</p>
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You mean UNC right?</p>
<p>"Regardless, Harvey Mudd wasn't top 10 out of the school teams. Still a great school, just a little small for me, and of course you can't major in both econ and math."</p>
<p>Apparently, you are not entirely correct there. Mudd's team finished in the top 10...
"The results of the nationwide 2006 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical
Competition have just been announced, and HMC had a great showing, with a
Top 10 finish in the team category (out of 508 schools)..."</p>
<p>HMC had the 8th highest number of people score in the top 500 out of any schools in the world. This is not accounting for HMC's size...which is amazing because only 20-something of the 61 people were math majors.</p>
<p>Furthermore, have you even been to the Claremont Colleges? CMC is like a 5 minute walk away...so I see no problem there. You don't even need to do any addition paperwork to take classes there...just sign up with Mudd's registrar. If you plan to double major and have an off-campus major, I think you have one extra form to have signed and submitted.</p>
<p>Actually, I meant both UNC-Chapel Hill and Minnesota-Twin Cities. Both have strogn Econ/Math departments.</p>
<p>Chicago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1</p>