Economics at MIT vs. Yale

cellardweller
Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:21:00 +0000

Any serious economics education is going to involve some substantial quantitative analysis, generally calculus based, with frequent use of statitistics. MIT is certainly not unique in that regard. Courses at other top institutions such as Harvard or Chicago will be just as quantitative. Intro courses such as principles of microeconomics and principles of macroeconomics involve extensive use of modeling for input/output analysis, money supply, inflation, employment, trade…Some fields such as econometrics are pure math.

If you mostly want to write essays don’t pick econ, pick something like sociology or anthropology. If you can handle the math, then MIT is a great place to go. It has the highest ranked economics department in the country and undergrads have full access to all resources and will be able to do research with some of the top minds in the field. It is also one of the favorite departments among undergrads for double majors and minors.