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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP. The LAC does not have computer science classes at all. Nor any statistics major/minor, it looks to me just intro statistics classes. There is a Math major and minor, but most of the offerred classes are pure math not applied math. There is one econometrics class offered in the econ department. There doesn’t appear to be a math or data science focused option within economics at this college. DC wasn’t sure what he wanted to major in before he went to college - and if I had had to guess, I would have guessed history or psychology - so these “gaps” in the fields of study didn’t jump out at him or me.

PP, you are right that DC can talk to a professor and that is a good idea. But professors tend to have an academia focused view. I want to understand a practical, employment focused view. So hoping someone can advise if there are ways to patch together a major at a traditional liberal arts college that could open doors for careers in econometrics type work. Oddly my sister suggested he look into an econ major and physics minor - her older child at a much bigger college has said that the hedge funds and investment banks want physics majors nowadays.

I want him to major in whatever is his choice. My hope is that he adds a minor or double major in something making him employable :-)[/quote]

Ooh, care to share the LAC? I would suggest a math minor perhaps. The LAC my kid attends offers a quantitative econ concentration to be paired with the economics major that is essentially an applied math minor: Calc 3, linear algebra, a 300-level math class, intro stats, and an advanced econ theory class, in addition to econometrics and calculus required for the major. See if other departments like psychology and sociology offer statistics-driven classes where you can still gain experience working with data and using languages like R. [/quote]

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