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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would you go to a liberal arts school for economics, liberal arts is trash major[/quote]

Students at a liberal arts college don't major in liberal arts. OP's daughter would major in econ, potentially.

Top liberal arts colleges have more students per capita eventually earning Ph.D.s of all kinds, including Ph.D.s in economics.

Here's the undergraduate institutions that have, in the past, produced the most eventual economics Ph.D.s per capita:

Swarthmore
Williams
Reed
Macalester
Carleton
Amherst
Grinnell
Wellesley
Pomona
Wesleyan
Cal Tech
Centre
Princeton
Whitman
Davidson
Knox
Haverford
Ohio Wesleyan
MIT
Kalamazoo

OP, some of these might be potential reaches/lottery schools for your DD, while others might be good safety schools to look at (e.g. Knox, Kalamazoo).[/quote]

So you basically go to college to learn how to teach in college[/quote]

This sounds like the same genius who thought kids who go to Liberal Arts colleges major in something called "Liberal Arts"

Most people get PhD's to do RESEARCH. Some choose to teach (again, often research methods). Even in Humanities, only about half work as University faculty. For STEM, the figure is lower.

You people really should not comment on areas that you know NOTHING about. [/quote]

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