<p>Which one of the above programs is the best at Carleton?
How well is the placement for these programs?
(PhD, master, industry, finance, etc)</p>
<p>Thank you very much for you input!</p>
<p>flyshow:</p>
<p>Certainly can't say which is the "best" of the 3 programs. All are very strong and well liked. By size, CS is not surprisingly by far the smallest (as it is everywhere except selected tech schools). </p>
<p>Physics is probably easiest to analyze. It is unusually popular, 6% of current juniors majoring, almost unheard of for a general LAC or university. Carleton ranks 7th nationally in PhD productivity in the field, more than any Ivy including Princeton. At least 2/3 of grads move on to to post bac programs, most in physics but some in engineering or related fields. Of those continuing in physics in the past few years, MIT headed the list followed by other privates like Caltech, Princeton, Northwestern, Duke, Rice, Cornell, Columbia, etc. A large number headed off to excellent state u's. Local examples are Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, more distantly Berkeley, Washington, Colorado. For the smaller number of grads moving into engineering, again, MIT, Caltech, Rice, Cornell, Northwestern, and Stanford are destinations with the strong midwest publics like Wisconsin, Purdue, Michigan, Illinois and the occasional more distant UCLA and Texas also represented. Placement in industry is very strong. Finance generally holds less interest for grads of these majors here than you'd see in programs out east.</p>