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[quote=Anonymous]Why does she want to study math?  (Not being critical, just wondering what that means to her.)  And what subfield(s) of political science interest(s) her (political theory, American politics, comparative, law, international relations, public policy, political economy).

The reason I ask is that small colleges have small faculties and you may be dependent on a couple of individuals who work in or near your field. And those folks may not even exist if you don’t choose the school wisely. Yes, there will be someone who can cover the intro course (maybe not well, maybe a visitor) in each subfield in poli sci, but that’s not much help.  Wrt math, faculty in adjacent fields (stats, CS) might matter and there may be a difference between schools where the math departments function is to help produce K-12 educators vs PhD Students vs finance quants vs produce sufficient math literacy to enable STEM and/or soc sci students to do/understand quantitative work in their own disciplines.[/quote]

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