<p>When in rome, do as the romans do.</p>
<p>When at chicago, take econ.</p>
<p>I simply find the UCLA internal report hard to believe. If it isn't some kind of spoof they are insane to be so honest when everybody else is so relentlessly full of spin and hype.</p>
<p>Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, MIT, Stanford, Yale</p>
<p>Princeton and Duke</p>
<p>"NYU shouldn't be on any list for economics--Stern has a great undergrad business (specifically finance) program though."</p>
<p>i know im a bit late, but jpps, freakin JOHN ASHCROFT graduated from NYU undergrad.</p>
<p>'nuff said.</p>
<p>Don't forget to consider UK universities. The UK rankings for Economics are, in general:</p>
<ol>
<li>Cambridge</li>
<li>London School of Economics</li>
<li>Oxford</li>
<li>UCL</li>
</ol>
<p>Those four are all of a standard far higher than anything else in the UK. UCL, in particular, is underrated in this area.</p>
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i know im a bit late, but jpps, freakin JOHN ASHCROFT graduated from NYU undergrad.
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<p>So did Greenspan, but what's your point? There are celebrities/political figures that graduated from pretty much every university, but correlating famous alumni with school quality is a trite comparison. There are several schools that are better than NYU for economics.</p>
<p>do you think that there is anyone that has accomplished as much in the area of economics as ashcroft? its rare to see a political appointment survive even when the party holding the white house changes.</p>
<p>the point is that nyu should not be discounted. nyu has a fantastic economics program.</p>
<p>Uh, yeah? Even an NYU alumni beats him: Greenspan. </p>
<p>Let me expand the list of people who have accomplished more than Ashcroft:</p>
<p>FINN E. KYDLAND
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT
ROBERT F. ENGLE
CLIVE W. J. GRANGER
DANIEL KAHNEMAN
VERNON L. SMITH
GEORGE A. AKERLOF
A. MICHAEL SPENCE
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
JAMES J. HECKMAN
DANIEL L. MCFADDEN</p>
<p>I could expand this list greatly...</p>
<p>what's the fuss about economics?</p>
<p>there're simply toooo many ppl majoring in ECON these days</p>
<p>it's all about the benjamins</p>
<p>Because economics is a good balance between liberal arts and mathematics.</p>
<p>oh crap greenspan was who i meant lol. these obscure appointees that dont get face time all get meshed into one persona. alan greenspan was who i meant, my bad. did ashcroft graduate from nyu? i didnt know taht.</p>
<p>lol ashcroft is the attorney general, i doubt hes an econ major, even.</p>
<p>I have no idea where he graduated from. I was just going off of your information. I didn't think Ashcroft was ever an economics powerhouse...maybe in another life.</p>
<p>As an Economics Major, it is a field I keep up with, including the various departments. I have close ties to several professors at Chicago, Columbia and Harvard and I get the scoop. According to the handfull of professors I know, the hottest program right now is the University of California-Berkeley. At any rate, I would compartmentalize the best Economics programs as follows:</p>
<p>GROUP I:
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago</p>
<p>GROUP II:
Columbia University
Northwestern University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>GROUP III:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Rochester</p>
<p>GROUP IV:
Boston University
University of California-San Diego
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Virginia</p>
<p>Some excellent LACs for Economics:
Amherst College
Bowdoin College
Claremont McKenna College (in my opinion the best LAC in Econ)
Grinnell College
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Pomona College
Swarthmore College
Wesleyan University
Williams College (great ties to IBs and MCs)</p>
<p>Alexandre's list is very good, but I would caution that groups 1-3 are ALL orthodox departments except for U Mich. Some others lower on the list are heterodox departments with excellent scholarship.</p>
<p>question alexandre: dartmouth is not on your list? I was under the impression that dartmouth's econ department was on par with williams', both very respectable and highly ranked.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is tricky. If you consider Dartmouth a LAC, then Dartmouth would certainly make the list of LACs with top econ programs. However, if you consider Dartmouth a research university, its Econ Department does not make one of the top 4 groups.</p>
<p>But that doesn't necessarily mean I (and many others) will pick Boston University over Dartmouth, just because BU's econ program is "better"</p>
<p>Another question Alexandre: If you were to rate these schools as an econ major (which you are), how would you rank them. (Note: Not a ranking of econ departments, but a ranking of the overall university, with the econ department in mind)</p>
<p>Amherst Williams Swarthmore Penn Dartmouth
Duke Northwestern JohnsHopkins Chicago</p>
<p>Absolutely correct Drop, I would pick Dartmouth over any university in Group IV. </p>
<p>Of the schools on your list, I would pick them in the following groupings:</p>
<p>GROUP I:
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>Group II:
Duke University</p>
<p>GROUP III:
Amherst College
Dartmouth College
Johns Hopkins University
Swarthmore College
Williams College</p>