Questions for current Swarthmore students!

interesteddad
Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:55:06 +0000

With the exception of just a couple of courses, the Swat Econ department has a max. cap of 25 students per class. One exception is the Intro to Macro which is a lecture course with conference sections (limited to 14) conducted by the same professor. The other is the Stat for Economics class.

Close relationships with professors is a Swarthmore trademark. Having said that, Econ is one of Swarthmore’s three largest departments. The students taking the Honors track probably get additional attention in that particular department, as is the case in Political Science.

I don’t specifically know about research jobs in the Econ department, but Swarthmore produced more future Economics PhDs per graduate over the most recent 10 year period than any other college or university in the country. So, something must be working when it comes to grad school placements and academic/research career tracks in Economics.