Liberal Arts at Public/State University vs Private Liberal Arts College

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@theloniusmonk

If you want to compare Berkeley or Michigan to Pomona or Amherst in . . . economics . . . and figure out who’s better, I’m more than happy to engage in this discussion.

This excerpt from “The Undergraduate Origin of Ph.D. Economists” summarizes some scholarly research on this topic (Siegfried, Stock. 2006):

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.