<p>I’d like to know how long it would take to complete a major in mathematics and computer science and a minor in economics.</p>
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<li>How long? </li>
<li>How many units per semester? </li>
<li>What are some of the better university I should research and attend for this?</li>
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<p>This looks like a fun course: [Macalester</a> College Mathematics and Computer Science Overview](<a href=“http://www.macalester.edu/mathcs/Overview.html]Macalester”>http://www.macalester.edu/mathcs/Overview.html)</p>
<p>I think this all depends on the individual and their own abilities. One of my good friends in undergrad double majored in CS and Math while graduating in three years. I don’t imagine I could have done the same in ten years given my lack of interest in both subjects.</p>
<p>The following is compiled from college confidential lists of best programs in math, cs, and economics (three lists, cross-referenced):</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT
Stanford
Princeton</p>
<p>The basics. These are at the top of their game in math, comp. sci., and economics.</p>
<p>If you aren’t serious about as heavy-hitting an econ. program, add UC berkely.</p>
<p>Of course, any good state university will serve you well… </p>
<p>Macalester’s program looks very good and interesting if you are interested in math/cs, for instance.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t go to any of those schools for economics…</p>
<p>Really? Where would you go for economics?
I guess UC Berkely is actually pretty good for economics.</p>
<p>Yikes, and share breathing space with Delong? No thanks. Bear in mind economics can, sadly, be an ideologically-driven discipline, with some professors more interested in creating a rationale for their policy views than in teaching positive economics (positive in this sense means objective). I would go to GMU or University of Chicago. I would not go to an elitist east coast school for economics.</p>
<p>I’m getting to where I’m losing lots of respect for the so-called saltwater school economists, even ones I used to respect (like Larry Summers). Any economist who can say with a straight face that the financial sector, or the economy as a whole, has been unregulated or laissez-faire for the past thirty years and wants to blame our recession on this myth of a libertarian revolution during the 80s is just a hack who ignores the facts.</p>
<p>All of that as it may be, Chicago isn’t half bad for math, but if you want to talk about the CS program…</p>