<p>I'm applying to a few national universities, but for my undergraduate experience, I'd rather go to an LAC. That said, I want to make sure that my economics degree at the LAC will open up all the doors of a degree at a national university. </p>
<p>Could someone please give me the names of the top-flight Liberal Arts Colleges for economics?</p>
<p>It really doesn’t matter. The best LACs for job placement, however, are:</p>
<p>1) Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth (LACish)
2) Middlebury, Bowdoin, Pomona, Wellesley
3) Colgate, Wesleyan, others.</p>
<p>Schools like Swarthmore and Haverford tend to do better in graduate placement than job placement.</p>
<p>Thank you for the quick response. I heard that Claremont McKenna is also a top economics school; it’s one of my favorites, so I was wondering if that was true.</p>
<p>I notice you’ve posted about good programs in Politics as well. Have you considered the PPE major (Politics, Philosophy, and Economics)? Pomona has an excellent one, including a semester at Oxford <a href=“http://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/socialsciences/PPE.shtml[/url]”>http://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/socialsciences/PPE.shtml</a>.</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna as well as several others have PPE programs as well.</p>
<p>Holy Cross and Davidson.</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna is a great school for Economics, and also for job placement. DH was an Econ. major there eons ago (though he went straight into grad school instead of a job) and it has just been getting better since he graduated. I would highly recommend it.</p>
<p>What does one typically do with an econ degree?</p>
<p>If you go to a top LAC or Ivy you go into elite business. IF you are an academic type and want to work for the govt or a think tank you go to grad school or work in washington.</p>
<p>Thanks SarahsDad, I’ll definitely look into that.</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna is great for econ.</p>
<p>Rugg’s Recommendations economics</p>
<p>American U. (DC) …….
Amherst (MA) …..
Babson (MA) …..
Barnard (NY) ……
Bates (ME) ……..
Boston University (MA) ….
Bowdoin (ME) …….
Brandeis (MA) ……_
Bryn Mawr ¶ …..,
Bucknell ¶ ……..
California, U. of (Los Angeles) ….,
California, U. of (San Diego) ….,
Chicago, U. of (ll) …….
Claremont McKenna (CA)….
Colby (ME) ……..
Columbia (NY) …
Connecticut College…..
Cornell (NY) ……….
Dallas, U. of (TX) …….,
Dartmouth (NH) …
DePauw (IN) …,….,
Duke (NC) ……..
Georgetown (DC) ….
Georgia Inst. Of Tech. ….
Grinnell (IA) ……….
Hamilton (NY) …
Harvard (MA) ….
Haverford ¶ ……
Holy Cross (MA) …….
Kalamazoo (MI) ..,
Kenyon (OH) …….
Lafayette ¶ …….
Macalester (MN) …..,
Michigan, U. of ‘”
MIT (MA) ……….
Middlebury (Vf) ……
Mount Holyoke (MA) ….
Northwestern (IL) …
Occidental (CA) ……,
Pennsylvania, U. of ……
Pomona (CA) ……….
Princeton (NJ) …..,
Rhodes (TN) …….._
Rochester, U. of (NY) .
Rose-Hulman (IN) …..,..,
Smith (Mass)….. </p>
<p>St. Mary’s Coll of Maryland…..
St. Olaf (MN) …..,……
South, U. of the (TN) ….,
Southwestern (TX) …
Stanford (CA) ……
Swarthmore ¶ .
Trinity (CT) ……
Trinity (TX) ….
Vanderbilt (TN)..
Villanova ¶ …
Virginia, U. of …._
Wabash (IN) …..
Wake Forest (NC) …..
Washington & Lee (VA) ….
Wellesley (MA) …….
Wesleyan (CT) ….,.
Whitman (WA) ..
Willamette (OR) ……..
Williams (MA) ……
Yale (CT) ……….</p>
<p>At least in the past, Wesleyan was not only very strong in economics but a pioneer in innovative instructional techniques (interactive economic models, etc.) Of course in 2007 I imagine most good economics programs use the same kinds of tools.</p>