<p>what would be considered the best colleges to major in economics?</p>
<p>uchicago is one</p>
<p>(In no order): UChicago, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Berkeley, Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Stanford.</p>
<p>IIRC, you should also add UCSD to the list above ^</p>
<p>UCSD... are you joking?</p>
<p>no?</p>
<p>thats only in Research - has very little to do with undergraduate quality</p>
<p>Econ majors for undergrad is correlated with overall quality of the school - if you go to an Ivy, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Williams Amherst Swarthmore etc you'll be in good shape</p>
<p>Yea, but in that article it talks about the econ department being ranked 10th by usnews.</p>
<p>Yeah, 10th for graduate school. However, I think we can deduce by the context of the thread that this is about undergraduate quality. </p>
<p>To give you an analogy, for graduate school, Wisconsin is ranked significantly higher in sociology than Harvard is. However, I think it's safe to say that for undergrad, I think we can all agree that very very few people are going to turn down Harvard for Wisconsin even if they're interested in sociology. For graduate school, that will happen. But for undergrad? That's a rare occurrence.</p>
<p>I guess the quality of individual departments has nothing to do with the undergraduate education. Interesting. :leaves thread:</p>
<p>The quality of individual graduate research departments does indeed have very little to do with undergraduate education. This is why, for example, you never see the elite LAC's ever listed on these graduate departmantal rankings, for the simple reason that they don't have graduate departments. Surely noone is going to take the position that just because Williams is not listed on those graduate departmental rankings, that must mean that the undergraduate education at Williams must be bad.</p>
<p>Oops, I forgot about the LACs...can't go wrong with Amherst, Williams, Swat or Middlebury.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure we already listed the top Econ schools (countless times), but here we go again:</p>
<p>GROUP I
Harvard University
Massachusetts 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
New York University
University of California-San Diego
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Rochester
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>GROUP V
Boston University
Johns Hopkins University
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia</p>
<p>All of those programs are awesome in Economics.</p>
<p>LACs with strong Econ programs:
Amherst College
Bates College
Bowdoin College
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Colgate University
Dartmouth College (not a LAC, but only offers undergraduate degrees in Econ)
Davidson College
Grinnell College
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Reed College
Swarthmore College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>Alexandre, may I suggest to use the countless discussions on this subject to revise your list of LACs. While you do not have Wellesley listed, you do list a few LACs that have very limited Econ departments.</p>
<p>Xiggi, I usually do not include all-women's schools in my lists because they only address 50% of the student population. I do agree that some of the LACs I list have limited Econ programs, but LACs are generally rather limited in terms of course-offerings anyway. One of the fiew exceptions where Econ is concerned is your very own Clarement McKenna, which has a large and strong enough Econ faculty to give a very broad Econ curriculum. But generally speaking, broad curricular offerings, as we know, is not what makes a LAC strong. It is the close contact with faculty and tiny classes that make LACs unique. From that point of view, the LACs I listed generally tend to provide a great enviroment to study Economics, even if their offerings are, as you aptly point out, limited.</p>
<p>alexandre are the group IV and V school you listed much worse than the higher tiers or is it fairly close?</p>
<p>London School of Economics is Tier 1 if you want to go international.</p>
<p>can i get specific opinions on the education from Brown, Johns Hopkins, and Georgetown SFS for international economics</p>
<p>thank you for organizing this list, i was wondering if you could organize a list of second tier good economcis schools that accept like 50-80% of applicants.</p>
<p>Schools like Purdue University and Loyola University Chicago. I am looking for good schools like this, but I'm not a straight A student who exceled in 27 APs while volunteering at my local hospital 20 hours weekly. And over the summer I did not save people in South Africa from starving or build churches in Southeast Asia.</p>
<p>I'm an average student but I want to get a good education.</p>
<p>Any ideas guys? Especially that guy who made that great list up above !!</p>
<p>Asherm, LSE woud be more of a Group II, perhaps even group III in Economics. LSE is not considered as good in Economics as Chicago or MIT. It is often compared to Columbia.</p>
<p>Andrassy, very little separates groups from group, but once you jump from group I to group III or from group II to group IV, you start seeing some small differences. And I would say there are significant differences between group I and group IV, or between group II and group V.</p>