Economics

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With respect to preparation for Ph.D. programs in economics, research indicates that a liberal arts college can be an excellent, and perhaps a preferred, choice:

Currently, 18 of the 25 American undergraduate institutions that send the largest percentage of their graduating class on to earn a Ph.D. in economics are liberal arts colleges. Graduates of liberal arts colleges also have shorter time-to-degree and higher verbal GRE scores than other economics Ph.D. students.

https://ideas.repec.org/p/van/wpaper/0611.html