<p>I'm in South Carolina, ~45 minutes away from Clemson, so it will be one of my top choices.</p>
<p>With the various scholarships that the state of South Carolina gives the top students from high school (easily $7,500/year), coupled with the relatively inexpensive instate tuition costs of Clemson, I could attend the school and pay very little for the 4 years that I'm there. On the other hand, I could most likely get into a more prestigious university than Clemson, although I would have to pay much more.</p>
<p>I was wondering, how well does Clemson place students into top tier graduate schools?</p>
<p>I'm primarily looking into getting a Masters in Economics, and I'd like to do that at a school like Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, Yale, NYU, Berkeley, Northwestern, Duke, BC, etc.</p>
<p>I’m not exactly sure. I see on the economics website that it says " recent Clemson economics majors have been offered admissions to, and excelled at the law schools of Chicago, Harvard, Duke, Emory, UNC, Virginia, and Yale." but it says nothing about economics programs at other universities. ([Undergraduate</a> Information | Clemson Economics](<a href=“John E. Walker Department of Economics”>John E. Walker Department of Economics)) </p>
<p>Clemson is the best major research university in South Carolina and has a pretty good reputation. If you are going to be in the honors college at Clemson and get good grades, Clemson is going to be a great value for you. There are plenty of students who go to state schools (because it’s affordable) and go on to prestigious graduate schools.</p>
<p>I agree with Pierre. Avoid going into debt for your undergraduate education, study hard, do well and your Clemson degree will certainly not minimize your opportunity for acceptance to a top graduate program.</p>