<p>Bigman,</p>
<p>You make a fair point about the kinds of students at Dartmouth. In your mind, they prefer practice over theory, the real world over the ivory tower, making money over talking about it, etc. and thus they eschew graduate study in economics. I got that. However, it doesn’t necessarily follow, logically, that Dartmouth has a top ranked economics program. It may, but you can’t derive it from your statement. </p>
<p>Do you really think Dartmouth economic majors are really that different from those at Williams, Amherst, Pomona, Princeton and Bowdoin? Do Dartmouth students have so much better access to, and do they receive so much more compelling offers from I-banks and consulting firms, as to make the option for graduate study in economics completely unattractive? </p>
<p>Sybbie, I do not, at all, overlook the fact that many economic students don’t wish to pursue a Ph.D. I state quite clearly that the option to go into I-banking and consulting is an attractive one for D students, as it for many at other schools I have cited. What is striking is Dartmouth’s absence from the list I posted. And yes, some of the numbers are small, but one would think Dartmouth would at least be represented on it, especially against like-sized peers.</p>
<p>The OP began this tread with a question of concern. In alluding to the article about the difficulty Dartmouth has in recruiting high-quality scholars in economics and PS to the school and the challenges D faces by the expanding interest in economics and political science at the school, the OP asked the group about where Dartmouth’s economic program ranked, believing it was top ranked nationally behind Yale and Chicago. While we can clearly say that Dartmouth, itself, is a top ranked school and that many of its graduates who study economics get great jobs in industry, are we really any closer to answering the OP’s question?</p>
<p>OP are you out there??</p>