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Similarly, in 1975 the American Economics Association picked up the ball, alleging that MIT was first in program quality, with Harvard dropping to fifth...
...Cary Brown, professor of economics and chairman of the economics and chairman of the economics department at MIT, admitted yesterday that Harvard posed "MIT's most severe competition" in graduate economics instruction. "I doubt," he said, "that our curriculum is very different from Harvard's on paper." He added that most graduate economics schools boast similar programs of econometrics, micro- and macro-economics and economic history...
What makes the difference between Harvard and MIT--what gives MIT a higher rating than Harvard--is, in Brown's opinion, the amount of attention paid to students by the faculty. "We give more attention to our students," said Brown. "Our emphasis is on teaching, rather than research--unlike Harvard...
Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Economics at Harvard and chairman of the department here, disagreed yesterday with Brown's view of the case. He argues that MIT "has a different situation from ours. MIT is primarily a graduate school in economics--there aren't many undergrads. For that reason, they can afford to devote more personalized attention to students," he said...
...fact, 65 undergraduates at MIT major in economics, making it one of the university's smallest concentration; by comparison, some 600 Harvard undergrads have chosen the soft science as their field, thus ranking it the college's largest enrolled major...