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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Transplant to DC from Western Europe with kids in middle school. I am trying to learn more about college/university life in the US since it is so different from back home.

There is a lot of discussion on this forum about elite schools and the various opportunities they offer outside the classroom, especially professionally. But what I am trying to understand, since I’ll be paying for an education, is what is it about the classroom experience at these schools that provides kids with an elite education? [b]If economics, for example, is taught from the same textbook at Princeton vs Penn State, what makes the Princeton classroom experience elite?[/b][/quote]
If a student would like to graduate absolutely current in the field of economics, then a school such as Princeton (#5 in this analysis of faculty scholarship) may make a better choice than Penn State (#40):

Economics rankings: US Economics Departments | IDEAS/RePEc https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.usecondept.html

Similarly, one of the top 8 or so LACs in this analysis may make a better choice than an LAC outside the, say, top 20:

Economics rankings: US Economics Departments at Liberal Arts Colleges | IDEAS/RePEc https://share.google/BPwnMpuAOtZdzYhq5[/quote]

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