<p>Could anyone tell me an apparent clueless international U.K student a list of Finance or Economics majors which are portrayed as 'the best' majors in their respected field.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>The University of California at Santa Cruz, according to <a href="http://www.econphd.net/rank/rmacro_b.htm#International%20Finance%5B/url%5D">http://www.econphd.net/rank/rmacro_b.htm#International%20Finance</a> , is ranked #9 in International Finance. They offer a BA in Global Economics, an MS in Applied Economics and Finance, and a PhD in International Economics. Check out their website at econ.ucsc.edu . The location is great...beaches.</p>
<p>Finance:
1. UPENN Wharton
2. NYU Stern
3. UMichigan
4. UC Berkeley
I don't remember the rest.</p>
<p>Econdoc, those rankings seem to be according to publication volumes rather than according to department quality. </p>
<p>ElWilson, generally speaking, the top undergraduate Econ departments in the US can be grouped as follows:</p>
<p>Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago</p>
<p>Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University</p>
<p>Columbia University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University</p>
<p>Boston University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of California-San Diego
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Rochester
University of Texas-Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>Those groupings are of research universities. The US also has Liberal Arts Colleges, which are smaller universities that focus almost entirely on undergraduate students. Some of them have excellent Econ departments too. The top ones that come to my mind are:</p>
<p>Amherst College
Bowdoin College
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Dartmouth College (not a Liberal Arts College, but does not offer graduate degrees in Econ)
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Pomona College
Swarthmore College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>TOP FINANCE DEPARTMENTS (undergraduate level):
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)</p>
<p>New York University (Stern)</p>
<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross)
University of California-Berkeley (Haas)</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Kenan Flagler)
University of Southern California (Marshall)
University of Texas-Austin (McCombs)
University of Virginia (McIntire)</p>
<p>Hey shut up! I know that. hehe, I'm trying to get the kid to come here. Though all but one student from the PhD program is Indian.</p>
<p>I hope you know I was kidding about the "shut up." Aww, now I feel bad.</p>
<p>I know you were kidding. And I think the UCs all have excellent Econ departments. Cal is on par with Yale and Princeton in Econ. UCLA iks as good as Columbia and Michigan. UCSD is amazing too, especially in quantitative Econ. UCI, UCD, UCSB and UCSC all have very good departments too.</p>
<p>Whatever you do, DON'T DO MARKETING! Just FYI.</p>
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<p>Economics and marketing have little correlation. Marketing majors may only take two semesters of econ at most. Therefore, majoring on econ will not help you in marketing. You can still do it, but majoring in business administration (concentration in marketing) will be much better for you.</p>