Duke or Dartmouth?

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Anonymous wrote:Duke econ is #21 in the world

Dartmouth is #78

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2023/economics-econometrics

But only #18 in the U.S.

Better than Dartmouth

…..at the graduate level.

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Anonymous wrote:I had no idea that Duke was considered better than Dartmouth.

If he wants to go to grad school in econ, I'd suggest Dartmouth.

Of course Duke is better and has better econ department.

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-humanities-schools/economics-rankings

#18. Just more proof that Duke is a bit overrated academically.

Duke is not strong in Econ.

Two treasury secretaries came from Dartmouth--Tim Geithner and Hank Paulson (also formerly CEO of Goldman Sachs).

Neither of them majored in Econ at Dartmouth so this comment is useless. They studied it elsewhere.

All the more impressive that they can pivot to economics in graduate school so easily. Incidentally, I work in international economics, and you do not need to major in economics to go to graduate school in economics. A very successful finance-quant guy I know majored in history in Oxford.

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Anonymous wrote:Both schools are considered peers. The things that stand out for me for each school are:

Dartmouth: college more along the lines of elite small colleges like a Williams or Amherst, isolated campus in the sticks where any student who doesn't enjoy frat/party scene might feel isolated, a relatively strong school spirit around its sports teams compared to other ivies.

Duke: mid-sized university with many pre-professional students, with outsized school spirit due to MBB, big party scene.

Ideally you will be able to visit both before making the decision.

My friend's daughter is MISERABLE at Dartmouth in large part because is not a frat/party kid. She just finished her freshman year was debating not returning. The game day decision was that she'd try another year.
She went to high school at a diverse school in the DMV so wasn't raised in the sticks but just can't seem to find her people at Dartmouth. I think there was also this expectation that she would have this super awesome college experience (she got a spot at her dream school!) but it's been a complete bust.

Lest anyone jump on here and say I'm a troll---no, definitely not. My kids are younger. I've just been surprised to hear how hard it's been for her since she's a super well adjusted and lovely kid.

It would be interesting to know to which other schools she applied. The unhappy Dartmouth student was an uninformed applicant as frat parties are the lifeblood of Dartmouth College. What did she expect ?

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Economics degrees aren’t necessary as others have been saying. David Rubenstein, the most influential investor in DC, has no economics background

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Anonymous wrote:This is just an anecdote:

MY friend's nephew (Asian) transferred from Duke last year to a foreign university because he did not feel their computer science program was in the frontier of innovation. I think he was also worried about being Asian at Duke. Not sure why and could not really get much information from just casual conversations.

I think the premier university in RTP that feeds graduates into tech companies is probably doing pretty well with computer science. The Asian thing is a red flag too, makes no sense.

+1 didn’t Google and Apple literally just start building major tech campuses in Durham? Seems like the only reason to do it would be to hire Duke kids

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Dartmouth is elite all around. They even send kids to work at cutting edge companies like OpenAI.

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Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth is elite all around. They even send kids to work at cutting edge companies like OpenAI.

The COO of OpenAI went to Duke undergrad and studied economics, which is directly relevant to OP.