What are the strongest academic program(s) at BC?

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<p>However you want to measure strength - number of students who graduate in a certain area? the relative size of an area’s faculty? the extent to which graduates stay in the area they studied?</p>

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<p>heres a link to bc’s fact book.
<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/publications/factbook/pdf/12_13/12-13_fact_book.pdf[/url]”>http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/publications/factbook/pdf/12_13/12-13_fact_book.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Pg 29 has the size of an areas faculty
pg 43 has the number of undergrads per major
pg 45 has the most popular majors</p>

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<p>you can check IPEDS for graduating seniors department. But that doesn’t necessarily equate to a “strong” department, just large. Chem is strong at BC, for example, but it is not large. Ditto Philosophy. (Just to name two in Arts & Sciences.)</p>

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<p>A naive question for a school that is dedicated to the liberal arts. (Such a question is fine for vocational programs.)</p>

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<p>BC’s Carroll School of Management is ranked 6th in the country. I’m not sure what exactly are the strongest academic programs, but CSOM is definitely one of the strongest if not THE strongest at BC.</p>

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<p>Blue , I actually got that metric of assessing strength from an admissions officer at a classic small LAC, Macalaester College, when I asked this selfsame question - I noted the dimensions I noted here and she said this is her way to , or at least another good way to, measure strength of a college or a given college’s pgm.</p>

<p>Yes, it sounds pre-professional-ish, but still a valid question to ask.</p>