Economics vs. Political science

juillet
Sat, 31 Aug 2019 02:30:02 +0000

One of the reasons that economics is in higher demand on the job market than political science is because economics is a quantitative field. The economics majors who will be best able to compete for those desirable, high-paying jobs are the ones with more math/statistics/quantitative analysis skills. An economics student without that knowledge/skill set is not really that different from a political science student, since both are social sciences.

So yes, math is important, and that broader range of sectors is due to the math. But if you don’t want to do quantitative analysis and the idea of spending a lot of your time “looking at graphs and spreadsheets” doesn’t appeal to you, then perhaps quantitative analysis isn’t for you? (Although, to be fair, political scientists do a fair bit of that, too.)