Best School for Economics Undergraduate?

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<p>What is the best University to attend to study Economics as a major? Either in the west or east coast, it doesn't matter. Which school is considered the best for undergraduate economics?</p>

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<p>In the East, Harvard
In the Central, Chicago
In the West, UC Berkeley</p>

<p>Personally, I think Chicago is the best.</p>

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<p>Did we forget MIT??</p>

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<p>Thank you for your help dhl3, of these, could you tell me (of the schools that you mentioned) which would be the ones where admissions would be most accesible for an international student?
thank you</p>

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<p>Did we forget Wharton???</p>

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<p>UPenn-Wharton, Harvard, NYU-Stern, UMich-Ross, Chicago, Queens School of Commerece (Kingston, ON), London School of Economics, Yale, Dartmouth, UC-Berkeley.</p>

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<p>Wharton is a business school; the BS in Economics degree is a business degree.</p>

<p>If your goal is PhD, then one of the liberal-arts schools on page 27 and 28 of the following paper is better. It's generally easier for internationals to get into a liberal-art college over a national university.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.econ.duke.edu/aeasp/seminar_files/seminar2006_files/Undergraduate_Origins_May_2006.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.econ.duke.edu/aeasp/seminar_files/seminar2006_files/Undergraduate_Origins_May_2006.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>If you want to make a lot of money graduating from college, then choose a big-name school like Harvard, MIT, Chicago, etc.</p>

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<p>To do what? If you want to go into business (consulting/ banking)</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Wharton, MIT, Stanford</li>
<li>Dartmouth, Columbia, Duke, Penn (College), Brown, Williams, Amherst, Ross, Haas</li>
<li>Northwestern, Cornell, Chicago</li>
</ol>

<p>If you want a PhD or want to work at a think-tank this list changes slightly with chicago higher for example.</p>

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<p>Stern is also a bschool, the economics courses are done through CAS (with the exception of a couple). And there are plenty of extensive threads on this, do a search.</p>

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<p>If you want to go into consulting or banking, Penn CAS or SEAS actually has amazing placement.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/college/2006cpsurvey.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/college/2006cpsurvey.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>A total of 200 students from SAS went into either finance or consulting. </p>

<p>The reason is that almost every single finance and consulting firm comes to Penn to recruit, and OCR is open to all students regardless of undergraduate school.</p>

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<p>Yeah I forgot about Stern....put it in category 2</p>

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<p>Gabriel you shoulod also take into consideration studying in your oun country as we know we have very good universities.</p>

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<p>Gabriel Boston is known for being great in universities, so you can look in there.</p>