<p>Hmm someone has a soft spot for California apparently... ;)</p>
<p>Harvard, MIT or Chicago would be ideal, but those aren't the options presented by the OP.</p>
<p>Chicago econ and math make a happy marriage for a lot of students. The math department and the bigshots in it pay surprising amounts of attention to undergrads. And I guess Chicago econ is legendary (funny, because I'm a student there and econ is the only subject I DON'T like), but it is extremely rigorous and there are a lot of required classes for the major.</p>
<p>josh, Berkeley is an excellent school for econ and math, one of the best in the world. But still, it is not quite as great as Harvard, MIT and Chicago for economics. Those three are just on another level imo.</p>
<p>amykins, just a question.. you said you don't like econ at chicago: why is that? Is it just the subject matter or the way that econ is being taught?</p>
<p>probably just not cool because of its intensity..</p>
<p>Make sure you add a safety school or two on that list.</p>
<p>Wellesley.</p>
<p>According to the article cited in the thread below, Wellesley was ranked the number 1 LAC for undergrad econ. Double majors with math are encouraged by the Econ dept.</p>
<p>OP,</p>
<p>Are you going into business, or hoping to go to Econ graduate school.
That makes the difference.</p>
<p>If you are going into business/finance, I'd recommend the following schools in this rough order:
HYPSM and Penn, Dartmouth, Duke, Columbia, Northwestern, Chicago...your local flagship state school if you want to stay in the area as well.</p>
<p>Because the above schools have the most resources, strongest overall undergrads, etc.</p>
<p>If you are going into graduate work, I'd recommend those schools as well as several LACs - you would really need to focus more on GPA, research, coursework, and faculty interaction rather than the whole resume (such as work experience, activities, clubs, extracurriculars).</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Harvard doesn't have an undergraduate business degree program... Why...if he was going into business would you recommend he go there?</p>
<p>Because Harvard is Harvard.</p>
<p>Brown, Wesleyan, Colgate all have a mathematical economics major that is basically a flexible combination of the two that you may want to look into.</p>
<p>Harvard has economics..which is just as good if not better than business degree</p>
<p>Joshua...no-one on CC likes US-news or cares about their ranking...</p>
<p>Do the people posting understand that if grad school (PhD) in econ is the desired goal, then ranking of the economics department is less important for the undergrad than how much math you take in college? Go to a top ten program and only take the minimum math to get an econ degree (and sometimes the wrong math for a math degree) and you will be passed over in favor of a student from a small LAC or technical school with a phenomenal amount of math when applying for a PhD. For econ, it really matters whether you want to go straight to business/get an MBA -- then high level math doesn't count -- or else want a PhD/or plan to do high quant banking, in which case how much math you have counts more than how good your econ department was. In that sense NU's MMSS, Caltech, MIT or Chicago doing Econ/Math trump just going to a top econ program and not maxing out on math.</p>
<p>LACs for econ from Rugg's:
Amherst
Barnard
Bates
Bowdoin
Brandeis
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
Claremont McKenna
Colby
Connecticut C
Dartmouth
DePauw
Grinnell
Hamilton
Haverford
Holy Cross
Kalamazoo
Kenyon
Lafayette
Macalester
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke
Occidental
Pomona
Rhodes
Smith
St Mary's (MD)
St Olaf
U of South
Swarthmore
Trinity (CT)
Trinity (TX)
Wabash
Wake Forest
Washington & Lee
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whitman
Willamette
Williams</p>
<p>LACs for math from Rugg's:
Bates
Bowdoin
Bucknell
Carleton
Colgate
Dartmouth
Davidson
Dickinson
Harvey Mudd
Holy Cross
Kenyon
Mount Holyoke
Occidental
Pomona
Rice
St Mary's (MD)
St Olaf
Trinity (CT)
Union
Wabash
Wellesley
Wheaton
Whitman
Willamette</p>
<p>Gourman Report ranking for undergrad math:
Princeton
UC Berkeley
Harvard
MIT
U Chicago
Stanford
NYU
Yale
Wisconsin Madison
Columbia
Michigan Ann Arbor
Brown
Cornell
UCLA
Illinois Urbana Champaign
Caltech
Minnesota
U Penn
Notre Dame
Georgia Tech
U washington
Purdue WL
Rutgers NB
Indiana U Bloomington
U Maryland College Park
Rice
UC San Diego
Northwestern
Texas Austin
carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins
Washington U St Louis
Ohio State
SUNY Stony Brook
Penn State
UVA
RPI
Illinois Chicago
U Colorado Boulder
U Kentucky
UNC Chapel Hill
Dartmouth
U Rochester
U Utah
SUNY Buffalo
Tulane
USC
UC Santa Barbara
U Massachusetts AMherst
U Oregon
Duke
Louisiana State Baton Rouge
U Arizona
case Western
Michigan State
U Pittsburgh
Brandeis
US Air Force Academy</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad economics ranking:</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad
MIT
Chicago
Stanford
Princeton
Harvard
Yale
U Minnesota
U Penn
U Wisc Madison
UC Berkeley
Northwestern
U Rochester
Columbia
UCLA
U Michigan Ann Arbor
Johns Hopkins
Carnegie Mellon
Brown
UC San Diego
Duke
Cornell
NYU
UVA
UC Davis
U Washington
U Maryland College Park
Michigan State
UNC Chapel Hill
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
Texas A&M
Boston U
Washington U St Louis
Purdue West Lafayette
USC
U Texas Austin
Vanderbilt
Ohio State
Iowa State
SUNY Stony Brook
U Iowa
U Mass Amherst
UC Santa Barbara
U Pittsburgh
Virginia Tech
Claremont McKenna
Rutgers New Brunswick</p>
<p>As usual, I'm going to go ahead and say all the above rankings are very useless, especially Gourman's (who has no real methodology, and his rankings change once a decade, or so)</p>
<p>Maybe, but his rankings seem to track with the others out there pretty well. I suspect he just took the NAS rankings and massaged them a little.</p>