<p>The two aren’t really comparable. CMC is a specialty Econ/Poli Sci college. Swarthmore is a full-range liberal arts college, like Pomona. CMC doesn’t even have it’s own science departments, offering all of its science courses through a Joint Sciences Department serving CMC, Scripps, and Phitzer.</p>
<p>The size of the Econ department at CMC (in terms of number of majors, size of faculty) is more like the Econ department at a much larger university.</p>