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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Davidson 
UVA
W&M

Econ, then Econ PhD

Money is not an issue

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This is no brainer. UVA. It has a strong Econ program which will give your kid a leg up for graduate school applications.

Signed Ph.D economist. [/quote]

Davidson and W&M have a higher percentage of graduates that get PhDs in Economics than UVA based on government tracking data.[/quote]

I'm a different PhD economist. The trouble with looking at data for these small liberal arts colleges is that Davidson sends a couple of kids per year to an econ PhD program. These samples are just too small to conclude much, as different decisions by one or two people swing the data wildly.

I attended a top 10 PhD program. About 1/3 of people came from  medium sized private universities like Yale and MIT, about 1/3 from large public universities, and 1/3 from foreign universities. Th few who came from SLACS struggled, as they hadn't been very well prepared for the math required. They had no PhD programs at their schools, and their faculty members, probably excellent teachers, had been to grad school too long before to understand what was needed.

That, of course, was back in the early 16th century, and some schools have beefed up their undergrad requirements. To prep for a PhD program,  look for a program that offers intermediate micro and macro  with a calculus pre-requisite, that requires a couple of semesters of statistics, and that offers a senior capstone project with supervision by faculty. Make sure to take math through Differential Equations.[/quote]

Which is why you look at data over multiple years.  If you do that, you will still see that a higher percentage of W&M and Davidson graduates go on to earn PhDs in Economics than UVA.[/quote]

Over 5 years, the raw number for Davidson is 12 kids.[/quote]

From 2008 to 2022, 20 Davidson undergraduates earned Economics PhDs to 39 for W&M and 53 for UVA.  Davidson has 2,000 undergraduates compared to 6,800 at W&M and 17,500 at UVA.  Davidson is over 3X as productive as UVA on a per capita basis.[/quote]

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