<p>Hi i was just wondering would it be possible for someone to make maybe like an approximate top 20 list of colleges with the best economic programs? Thanks to anyone who does</p>
<p>One of this site’s moderator’s, Alexander, has a great, spot-on, list of top economics schools in the USA. Look for it.</p>
<p>As for me (for undergraduate), it’s something like this:</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale
Chicago
Berkeley, Northwestern, Columbia, NYU, Dartmouth, Brown, Penn
Michigan, Cornell, WashingtonUStL, Notre Dame
UVa, Rice, Emory, Vanderbilt, UCLA the top LACs (McKenna, Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, Swarth, etc)</p>
<p>Perhaps look for schools where the intermediate microeconomics course requires more than a year of calculus, and which have a good math department as well.</p>
<p>^I heard Rice had a less than stellar Econ department for its rep? no?</p>
<p>And here is the list, in case you couldn’t find it</p>
<p>GROUP I:
Harvard University
Masachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago</p>
<p>GROUP II:
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University</p>
<p>GROUP III:
Columbia University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>GROUP IV:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of Rochester
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>GROUP V:
Boston University
University of California-San Diego
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Minnesota
University of Texas-Austin</p>
<p>Although not listed above, many LACs also have excellent Econ departments. Chief among them are:
Amherst College
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Dartmouth College (not quite a LAC, but it does not offer graduate degrees in Econ either)
Denison University
Hamilton College
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Reed College
Swarthmore College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>The beauty of compiling lists is that it only takes a copy of the USNews, a pinch of subjectivity, and the sooth relief that nobody will ever ask you to EXPLAIN how you came up with it in the first place!</p>
<p>Here’s the reality: every school that is listed in the first few pages of the USNews tables will have a decent department of Economics. A smaller number of schools will make it their priority to have an excellent TEACHING department as it takes commitment, resources, and dedication to teaching undergraduates. </p>
<p>Alexandre’s list is comprehensive but does not attempt to make valid distinctions. It only pretends to! As every list of the genre, it suffers from the old “reputation of the reputation of the reputation” syndrome. In the end, it means nothing more than throwing darts at the latest USNews rankings.</p>
<p>Michigan is having issues</p>
<p>[downfall</a> - YouTube](<a href=“downfall - YouTube”>downfall - YouTube)</p>
<p>And most university econ departments take their ranking pretty seriously.</p>
<p>xiggi, rating the quality of economics teachers would be more akin to throwing darts. Every department likely has their good and bad professors. You don’t need a Nobel Prize winner to tell you how to shift the demand curve, but the Nobel Prize winner brings the department academic distinction.</p>
<p>UCB, I am happy you agree with my post. :)</p>
<p>^ Doh! ;)</p>